After completing his masters degree in cultural engineering at ETH Zurich, Christian Harb studied prehistoric archaeology at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). His dissertation at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bern (Switzerland) on the pile-dwelling question resulted from his main concern of interdisciplinary cooperation and his many years of work in wetland archaeology in various cantons of Switzerland. Harb coordinated the work of the UNESCO World Heritage 'Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps', led major evaluations such as Zurich-Parkhaus Opéra or Cham-Eslen (Zug) and carried out various excavations in pile dwellings. He is currently a research assistant at the Lucerne Cantonal Archaeological Service and is also responsible for the archaeology in the cantons of Nidwalden and Obwalden in central Switzerland.