Jadranka Verdonkschot Editor

Gail Higginbottom has a PhD on the megaliths of western Scotland (Arts, Adelaide). Now postdoctoral researcher (ERC-SyG-2020-951631-XSCAPE Material Minds (2024 - INCIPIT, CSIC), a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, a Visiting Research Fellow (Bournemouth and Adelaide) and founding member of CAA (AUS) and AAAC (Australian Association for Astronomy in Culture). A member of the MSCA Alumni Association (EUproject SHoW: Shared Worlds, project number 800236, https://gailhigginbottom.wixsite.com/mysite), she researches European and Landscape Archaeology, and Cultural Astronomy.

Jadranka Verdonkschot is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT-CSIC). She studied at the Universities of Amsterdam, Prague, and Alcalá de Henares and earned her doctorate in European Neolithic archaeology from Tübingen University and Alcalá University. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator of MILESTONE: Modelling Megalithic Space. Paleoenvironment, Navigation and Sight in Monumental Landscapes Grant (PID2023-152882NB-I00 of the Spanish State National Research Agency) and a postdoctoral researcher in the XSCAPE, Material Minds (ERC Synergy Grant) project. Her research focuses on landscape archaeology, monumentality and cognitive-material interactions in prehistory.