Emma L Baysal is a lecturer in prehistory at Trakya University in Turkey. She completed her PhD at the University of Liverpool in 2010 and has since held a Senior Fellowship at ANAMED in Istanbul and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the British Institute at Ankara. She specialises in, and has published extensively on, prehistoric ornaments and what they can tell us about social structure, technology, communication, trade and beliefs from the Epipalaeolithic period until the Early Bronze Age. She is currently working on artefacts from a range of prehistoric sites in Turkey.