Isaak Eijkelboom is a vertebrate paleontologist and PhD candidate, studying late Quaternary megafauna at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden. Isaak and I met to talk about his work in the Ice Age gallery at Naturalis on Tuesday 28th March 2023.

Annelou van Gijn is an archaeologist and specialist in microwear and residue analysis, and recently retired as the chair of Archaeological Material Cultures at Leiden University. She works to unravel the ‘cultural biography of objects’. I met Annelou in her office at the University on Wednesday 29th March 2023.

Luc Amkreutz is Curator of Prehistory Collections at Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. Luc specializes in Mesolithic and Neolithic archaeology, with a focus on mankind and material culture in relation to climate change. Luc and I met in his office and made our way over to the high security, climate-controlled environment of the museum stores on Wednesday 29th March 2023.

Hans Peeters is an Associate Professor at University of Groningen. He is the Principal Investigator on ‘Resurfacing Doggerland’, and focuses on the relationship between hunter-gatherer behaviour and landscape dynamics.

Jørn Zeller is an archaeozoologist with a broad interest in human-animal relationships, working on large-scale national research projects, investigating and advising on worked bone and antler artefacts.

We met at the University of Groningen’s Institute of Archaeology on Friday 31st March 2023.

Biologist Bram Langeveld is the Curator at Het Natuurhistorisch, Rotterdam’s Natural History museum.

Bram and I met in the ‘Picked Up, Dredged, Hammered’ exhibition at the museum on Sunday 2nd April 2023.

Paul Storm is a researcher of prehistoric human remains at University of Groningen. On this project, Paul is examining morphological variation and changes in jaws and teeth of Doggerland populations, compared to surrounding areas in Northwest Europe.

Paul and I met at Hans Peeters’ office on the morning of Friday 7th July 2023.