Gleser, Ralf Prof. Dr. Ralf Gleser holds the chair of Pre- and Protohistory at Münster University. One of his main research interests is the cultural development of central and south-east Europe in the Neolithic and Copper Age, with a particular focus on identities and material culture, early metallurgy, culture areas and cultural boundaries in the fifth and fourth millennia BC.
Hofmann, Daniela Prof. Dr. Daniela Hofmann is a Junior Professor at Hamburg University, where she teaches and researches chiefly on the Neolithic of central Europe. Her main areas of interest are the application of scientific methods to narratives of prehistoric life, as well as the role of material culture and social practices (burial, structured deposition, figurines, architecture) in bringing about or resisting change.