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.