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Marianne Skandfer is Professor of Archaeology at The University Museum and Academy of Arts at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. Her research focuses on hunter-gatherer knowledge acquisition and transmission, specifically prehistoric technology transmission and resource management, including human-animal socialities. She has published several papers on, among other subjects, early ceramic technology, material culture and identity, and human-animal relations in northern, prehistoric, hunter-gatherer societies. She is currently primary investigator in a project looking at demography and settlement in Stone Age North Norway.

Bryan C. Hood is Professor in Archaeology at UiT- the Arctic University of Norway, with a focus on hunter-gatherer settlement and social organization in the circumpolar region. In addition to northern Norway, he has worked in the Arctic/Subarctic transition zone of northeastern Canada (Labrador), Greenland, Baffin Island and the Kola Peninsula in Russia. His research interests include the organization of lithic technology, shellfish procurement and archaeological research history. Currently, he is exploring the use of pXRF in characterizing the chert sources of northern Norway, as well as the use of incremental growth in marine shells for seasonality determination.