Tristan Carter is a professor of archaeology in the Department of Archaeology at McMaster University. He is a Eurasian prehistorian whose work spans the Palaeolithic to Bronze Age; his research involves detailing lithic technology (and sourcing) as a means of engaging with debates on early human dispersals, Neolithization, and other forms of cultural interaction. He has directed the Stelida Naxos Archaeological Project since 2013 and initiated the Freston Archaeological Research Mission—detailing a massive Neolithic causewayed enclosure in England—in 2018.