Dirk Krausse is Head Archaeologist of Baden-Württemberg and Professor at the University of Tübingen. He has directed excavations at the Oppidum of Wallendorf and the “princely sites” of Mont Lassois in Central France and the Heuneburg in Southern Germany. Among his books are Hochdorf III. Das Trink- und Speiseservice aus dem späthallstattzeitlichen Fürstengrab von Eberdingen-Hochdorf (1996) and Eisenzeitlicher Kulturwandel und Romanisierung im Mosel-Eifel-Raum (2006).