Louwen, Arjan Arjan Louwen (1986) is currently a researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, the Netherlands. He graduated in 2010 on urnfield - settlement relations of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in the Eastern Netherlands. As a student and later as a field archaeologist he was fortunate to join in several excavations of late prehistoric barrow(landscapes) for the Ancestral Mounds project of Dr. David Fontijn. After a few years of fieldwork in commercial archaeology throughout the Netherlands he returned to the University of Leiden. At present he focuses on the Late Prehistoric funerary landscapes of Northwestern Europe.
Fontijn, David Prof. Dr. David Fontijn is professor in the Archaeology of Early Europe at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, the Netherlands. His research deals with the early agrarian societies of Europe from prehistory up until the early historical period, with particular focus on the Bronze Age and (early) Iron Age, the exchange and deposition of metalwork and on the archaeology of so-called 'ritual' landscapes. He is currently leading the NWO-VICI project "Economies of Destruction" investigating the puzzling destruction of valuable objects in Bronze Age Europe (2015-).