Alasdair Whittle is Emeritus Professor in archaeology at Cardiff University;where he taught in the Department of Archaeology and Conservation for many years. He specialises in the Neolithic of Britain and Europe;has researched across a wide range of themes and has excavated in Britain;Hungary and Germany. He has published extensively. In recent years;working closely with Alex Bayliss and others;he has been concerned with the construction of robust and precise chronologies;through the application of formal chronological modelling of radiocarbon dates; numerous case studies across various regions and phases of Neolithic Europe have been interrogated for their historical implications.