

Nicolas Zwyns, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Davis. Zwyns is also affiliated with the Department of Human Evolution of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Nicolas works with us at the Tolbor-21 and Tolbor-4 sites in northern Mongolia. His own projects target the investigation of Tolbor-16 and Tolbor-17.

Solange Rigaud, Ph.D.
Researcher, Laboratoire PACEA, UMR 5199, Centre national de la recherche scientifique/Université de Bordeaux. Solange is an archaeologist interested in cultural evolution, the transition to farming, symbolism, and personal ornaments in the Mesolithic of Europe and the Near East. Her range of expertise includes Geographic Information Systems and use-wear analysis, and bone and shell technology.