Biographical note

Ana Vale is a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology at the Centre of Archaeology, Arts and Heritage Sciences, Portugal. Her research focuses on the study of Late Neolithic enclosures (mainly in the Iberian Peninsula), and brings together the study of material culture and architectural histories in order to produce an understanding of the nature and temporality of the “use” of these sites. Joana Alves-Ferreira is a final-year PhD candidate, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology at the Centre of Archaeology, Arts and Heritage Sciences, Portugal. Her research focuses on the concept of the Neolithic in Europe, within a framework of critical questioning of the so-called historical “grand narratives”. Using an ethical-political perspective of archaeology, she actively seeks new ways of either reading or writing the world.Irene Garcia-Rovira is a research associate in the Cuween-Wideford Hill Landscape Project at the Department of Archaeology of the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests lie in the study of processes of social change evidenced in prehistoric contexts. She is currently engaged in the development of relational approaches to the Neolithic transition, and is involved in discussions of how this process should be approached theoretically.