Dr Jessica Smyth is Associate Professor in the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin. She has worked in Ireland and the UK and across the university and heritage sectors, and is currently Principal Investigator on 'Passage Tomb People', investigating the social drivers of passage tomb construction in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC. She is co-editor with Daniela Hofmann of Tracking the neolithic house in Europe: Sedentism, architecture and practice (2013).