Marie Louise Stig Sørensen is Professor of European Prehistory and Heritage Studies, University of Cambridge, and Professor of Bronze Age Studies, Universiteit Leiden. She has worked extensively on various aspects of the Bronze Age, with a special focus on the construction and performance of identity, and is the author of Gender Archaeology (2000). She is co-director of the excavation of the Bronze Age tell at Százhalombatta-Földvár, Hungary.