Martin Furholt is Professor of Social Archaeology at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology at Kiel University, previously he was professor of Stone Age Archaeology at the University of Oslo. His main research interests are the social and political organisation, mobility and community composition, local and regional social networks of Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in Europe. He conducted his Phd research on Baden Complex materials in Poland and Czech Republic, and his Habilitation thesis on the Neolithic and Chalkolithic of the Aegean Region. He is currently conducting fieldwork on 6th and 5th millennium Neolithic settlement and enclosure sites in Slovakia and Serbia, and publishes papers related to various aspects of social organisation, mobility and social change in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe.