José M. Capriles is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University, and a contributor to Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany: A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases and Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology.
Nicholas Tripcevich is a research associate and laboratory manager for the Archaeological Research Facility at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a contributor to Trade and Exchange: Archaeological Studies from History and Prehistory and coeditor of Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes: Sociopolitical, Economic, and Symbolic Dimensions.