Juan F. Gibaja received his PhD in Prehistory from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2002. He is currently a researcher at the CSIC (Spain). He is specialized in use-wear analysis, and his research has focused on the Mesolithic to Neolithic societies in the Mediterranean. In recent years he has been directing a joint project MuCIV-CSIC on the submerged Neolithic site of La Marmotta, together with Mario Mineo and Niccolò Mazzucco.