Barbara Wilkens works currently as independent archaeozoologist in Alghero, Italy. Doctor of Arts at the university of Pisa in 1982 with the thesis Il villaggio dell'Eta del Bronzo di Mursia (Pantelleria) (The Bronze Age village of Mursia (Pantelleria)), she has achieved the doctorate in Archaeology in the year 1987 with a thesis entitled: Il passaggio dal Mesolitico al Neolitico attraverso lo studio delle faune di alcuni siti dell'Italia centro-meridionale (The transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic through the study of the fauna from some sites of central and southern Italy). She is interested in the study of Holocene faunal remains in the Mediterranean area and the Near East. And she is specialized in the study of mammals, fish and molluscs from archaeological excavations.