Klaus Hirsch (1964) has worked since 2006 as a field archaeologist in the archaeological department of Museum Sønderjylland in Haderslev, Southern Jutland (Denmark). Prior to his work in Denmark, he was employed as a field archaeologist in the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in northeastern Germany. He is a trained prehistoric archaeologist with a special interest in the Late Palaeolithic as well as experimental archaeology, flint sourcing and the prehistoric distribution and exchange of flint in Northern Europe. He has written several articles on various topics, such as experimental archaeology.