Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer is an associate of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University and collections manager for palaeontology at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University. She is a zooarchaeologist specialising in molluscs from archaeological sites.
Alice M. Choyke is associate Professor in the Medieval Studies Department at the Central European University, Budapest. She has worked for most of her professional life as a zooarchaeologist specialising in worked osseous materials and especially the impact of raw material choices from prehistoric, proto-historic and historic sites in Europe
