Pešoutová, Jana (Dr.)
Jana Pešoutová was born in Český Brod, Czech Republic in 1987. After obtaining her bachelor’s degree in applied linguistics at Palacký University in Olomouc in 2010, she moved to the Netherlands where she completed her Master in the Management of Cultural Diversity. Drawing on theories from social psychology, her master’s thesis focused on the impact of the social exclusion and its relationship with extremism among the youth. From 2013 she carried out her doctoral research as a part of the 1492 Nexus project at Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Petit, Lucas P. (Dr.)
Lucas Petit is head of collections and research of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. He has held positions at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main and at Leiden University. He has held positions at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main and at Leiden University. In recent decades he has been involved in various archaeological fieldwork projects in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Picardt, J. (Dr.)
Picardt studied theology (1622) and medicine (1628) at Leiden University and was the prime minister of Coevorden. Picardt became fascinated by the many ancient landmarks he witnessed in the northern Netherlands and wrote his findings down in what became the first book about the history of the northern Netherlands in general, and about its archaeological remains in specific.
Piezonka, Henny (Dr. )
Henny Piezonka (PhD, Free University Berlin, 2010) has been a Junior Professor for Anthropological Archaeology at Kiel University, Germany, since 2016. In May 2023, she was appointed University Professor for Prehistoric Archaeology at the Free University Berlin, Germany.
Plug, Jo-Hannah (Dr.)
Jo-Hannah Plug is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Liverpool, Department of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology. Within her current Leverhulmefunded postdoc she uses a combination of ancient DNA, stable isotopes, and archaeological evidence to explore the organization of PPNA to PN communities in the northern and southern Levant. Previously, her doctoral research focused on the mortuary record of Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria.
Politopoulos, Aris MA (MA)
Aris Politopoulos is a lecturer for the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Leiden University Center for Arts in Society working on the Past-at-Play Lab project. His research focuses on ancient Near Eastern empires, the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean, the archaeology of Play, and the archaeological study of video games. He is also a co-founding member of the VALUE Foundation and has published extensively on the topic of video games and archaeology.
Pollard, Joshua (Prof. dr.)
Joshua Pollard is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton. He is a leading authority on the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Britain, and is director of a major research project on the Neolithic stone circle complex at Avebury, where he has worked for many years. His books include Avebury: biography of a landscape, Landscape of the Megaliths and Avebury.
Pešoutová, Jana (Dr.)
Jana Pešoutová was born in Český Brod, Czech Republic in 1987. After obtaining her bachelor’s degree in applied linguistics at Palacký University in Olomouc in 2010, she moved to the Netherlands where she completed her Master in the Management of Cultural Diversity. Drawing on theories from social psychology, her master’s thesis focused on the impact of the social exclusion and its relationship with extremism among the youth. From 2013 she carried out her doctoral research as a part of the 1492 Nexus project at Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Petit, Lucas P. (Dr.)
Lucas Petit is head of collections and research of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. He has held positions at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main and at Leiden University. He has held positions at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main and at Leiden University. In recent decades he has been involved in various archaeological fieldwork projects in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Picardt, J. (Dr.)
Picardt studied theology (1622) and medicine (1628) at Leiden University and was the prime minister of Coevorden. Picardt became fascinated by the many ancient landmarks he witnessed in the northern Netherlands and wrote his findings down in what became the first book about the history of the northern Netherlands in general, and about its archaeological remains in specific.
Piezonka, Henny (Dr. )
Henny Piezonka (PhD, Free University Berlin, 2010) has been a Junior Professor for Anthropological Archaeology at Kiel University, Germany, since 2016. In May 2023, she was appointed University Professor for Prehistoric Archaeology at the Free University Berlin, Germany.
Plug, Jo-Hannah (Dr.)
Jo-Hannah Plug is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Liverpool, Department of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology. Within her current Leverhulmefunded postdoc she uses a combination of ancient DNA, stable isotopes, and archaeological evidence to explore the organization of PPNA to PN communities in the northern and southern Levant. Previously, her doctoral research focused on the mortuary record of Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria.
Politopoulos, Aris MA (MA)
Aris Politopoulos is a lecturer for the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Leiden University Center for Arts in Society working on the Past-at-Play Lab project. His research focuses on ancient Near Eastern empires, the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean, the archaeology of Play, and the archaeological study of video games. He is also a co-founding member of the VALUE Foundation and has published extensively on the topic of video games and archaeology.
Pollard, Joshua (Prof. dr.)
Joshua Pollard is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton. He is a leading authority on the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Britain, and is director of a major research project on the Neolithic stone circle complex at Avebury, where he has worked for many years. His books include Avebury: biography of a landscape, Landscape of the Megaliths and Avebury.
