Peter Bogucki is associate dean for undergraduate affairs at the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, where he previously served as director of studies of Forbes College. He received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an A.M. and Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University. Since 1976 he has studied early farming societies in Europe, specifically in Poland with excavations at the sites of Brzesc Kujawski and Oslonki. His major publications include The Origins of Human Society and Ancient Europe, 8000 B.C.--A.D. 1000: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian