Annabell Zander is a final-year PhD Candidate in the Department of Archaeology, University of York funded by the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH) and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). Zander's research focuses on investigating human-environment interactions at the Palaeolithic-Mesolithic transition in northwestern Europe for which she was awarded 25 international grants, awards and prizes, including the European Association of Archaeologists' student Award 2019.
She has a strong publication record with six articles published in high-impact peer-reviewed journals, seven book chapters and 15+ presentations at international conferences, including 7 invited presentations, and three chaired sessions. In 2017 Zander was elected as a Council Member of the Prehistoric Society (London, UK) and in 2019 further elected as Europa Officer, responsible for organising the Society's prestigious annual Europa Conference.
Birgit Gehlen is a postdoc researcher in Prehistory within the CRC 806 'Culture-Environment Interaction and Human Mobility in the Late Quaternary' at the University of Cologne.
The research of the project 'Chronology, site concentrations, cultural differentiation, and mobility patterns as basis for comparing human environment interaction' she is engaged in, focuses on the relationships between land use, demography, and mobility on the one hand, as well as natural conditions and climate events for the Stone Age between 14, 000 and 3, 000 calBC. B. Gehlen's scientific priorities are chronology and mobility research of the Final Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic in western, northern and southern Germany and adjacent regions.
The methods used in the project are typology, isotope analyses, the determination of the origin of flint, and the GIS-based evaluations of archaeological data and environmental parameters.
