Malcolm C. Lillie is Professor of Archaeology at Umeå University, Sweden. Previously he was Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology and Wetland Science at the University of Hull, England. Malcolm undertook MSc. and PhD research at Sheffield University, the latter under the supervision of the late Professor Marek Zvelebil. He was awarded his PhD in 1998. His main research interests are the Prehistory of Ukraine, in situ preservation in wetlands, prehistoric and wetlands archaeology in general, and the analysis of prehistoric human remains.
Inna Potekhina is a Head of the Bioarchaeology Department in the Institute of Archeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, and an Associate Professor at the University of “Kyiv–Mogila Academy”, where she teaches a course of anthropology and bioarchaeology of ancient cultures. Inna is an author of more than 150 articles and 4 monographs. Scientific interests include anthropology of the prehistoric populations of Southeastern Europe; the genomic history of Mesolithic-Eneolithic Ukraine; palaeodemography and palaeodiet reconstructions.
Dr Chelsea Budd is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeology at the University of Umeå, Sweden. She completed her PhD at the University of Oxford in 2016. Her main research interests are Early European Prehistory, isotope geochemistry, and the application of statistical modelling techniques to archaeological research.