Berit V. Eriksen is senior researcher at the Museum for Archaeology, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, and Honorary Professor in Prehistoric Archaeology at Kiel University. She lectures on Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology. She is a PI of the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Scales of Transformation: Human–Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies’ (CRC 1266, financed by the German Research Foundation/DFG) and a member of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Roots’ at Kiel University. She has published various articles and books about the archaeology of prehistoric hunter-gatherers as well as flint technology and she is currently particularly interested in the use of flint and stone in early metal using societies, including not least the Bronze Age of Scandinavia.