Home to a wealth of respected talent, this group is recognised internationally for the strength of its ground-breaking archaeology relating to the European Mesolithic and Neolithic periods.

Projects include: 

• Art Landscape Trans-formations: Măgura Past and Present
• Dating Epipalaeolithic and Early Mesolithic occupations of the Danube Gorges
• Mesolithic-Neolithic interactions in the Balkans
• Mortuary practices in the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Copper Age south-east Europe
• The beginnings of copper production in the Balkans
• The earliest Neolithic in Bavaria
• The early and middle Neolithic sequence on the northern part of the Great Hungarian Plain
• The first farmers of central Europe: diversity in LBK lifeways
• The times of their lives: precise narratives of change for the European Neolithic through formal chronological modelling
• Towards a history of the early Neolithic: dating the causewayed enclosures of southern Britain and Ireland