Metalworkers and their Tools: Symbolism, Function, and Technology in the Bronze and Iron Ages

Linda Boutoille has a PhD in archaeology from the Université de Bourgogne and is currently Research Fellow based at Queen’s University. She has held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, a Royal Irish Academy Research Grant, a British Academy Research Grant and more recently a Gerda Henkel Research Grant. Her main research interests lie with both the technological and organisational aspects of prehistoric craft activities, and of Bronze Age metalwork production in particular.

Rebecca Peake has a PhD in archaeology from the Université de Bourgogne and is currently a senior project manager with the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) and a member of the research team UMR 6298 of CNRS. Her published work focuses on interpretative approaches to land occupation and funerary practices in the Bronze and the Early Iron Ages.