Gisela Eberhardt is an archaeologist and historian of science. Her research focuses on the history of archaeological knowledge and on the emergence and development of archeological methods, particularly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her interests include settlement archaeology and the process of neolithisation. She has been a member of the Topoi management team since 2011 and is currently the office manager of the central administration of Topoi FU. She is the author of the recent monograph “Deutsche Ausgrabungen im langen 19. Jahrhundert”, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2011, as well as the editor of eTopoi’s forthcoming special issue on “New historiographical approaches to archaeological research”.