Anastasia Khramtsova, a managing editor of the Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift, Kiel University, conducted her Ph.D. programme in Pre- and Protohistory at Kiel University after complementing her earlier degrees in history archaeology from St. Petersburg State University and Moscow State University. Her research focuses on Early-Middle Holocene hunter-fisher-gatherer societies, with a particular emphasis on burial rituals and lithic technology.