 Bärbel MorstadtBärbel is a classical archaeologist specialised in Phoenician studies at the University of Bochum. She received her PhD 2007 in Classical Archaeology at the University of Erlangen. She also holds a MA-degree of Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Art History from the University of Würzburg, Her research focus lies on the cultural contacts in the Ancient Mediterranean in the 1st millennium BC, including questions of resources, migration movements, and religious practices. She is also interested in research history as well as the appropriation and instrumentalization of history. |
 Sebastian HageneuerSebastian is an archaeologist specialised in Digital and Computational Archaeology. He studied Archaeology of West Asia at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he is also received his PhD. Since 2016, he works as an assistant at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Cologne. He has focused his work and research on archaeological reconstructions and 3D documentation. In his PhD he is researching reconstruction drawings of the 19th and early 20th centuries and how they formed the present image of ancient West Asia. He is also interested in Digital Teaching and Archaeogaming. |
 Aris PolitopoulosAris Politopoulos is an Assistant Professor in Archaeology and Cultural Politics at the Faculty of Archaeology. His research focuses on archaeology and video games, the archaeology of play, ancient board games, the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean, and radical archaeology. Aris has conducted extensive research on the archaeology of play, both through the study of ancient play (e.g. ancient board games), as well as through the study of contemporary video games that deal with the past. |
 Aydin AbarAydin is an assistant professor of mining & resource archaeology at the University of Innsbruck. In his research, he is currently focusing on traceological approaches to stone tools from mining contexts of the metal ages in order to get closer to the people working in the past and the organisation of work in Late Bronze Age. Since his student days, he has had a great interest in the history of research and questions of the political relevance of the past in the present. |