Mark Q. Sutton is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at California State University, Bakersfield. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Riverside, in 1987. Dr. Sutton specializes in prehistory, hunter-gatherer adaptations to arid environments, insects as food and in technology, prehistoric diet and technology, and ecology. Dr. Sutton has published more than 250 books, monographs, articles, and reviews on archaeology and anthropology, including the textbooks Laboratory Methods in Archaeology (1996, 7th ed., 2019), Introduction to Native North America (2000, 7th ed., 2024), Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past (2003, 7th ed., 2024), Introduction to Cultural Ecology (with E. N. Anderson, 2004, 3rd ed., 2014), Paleonutrition (2010), A Prehistory of North America (2011), Bioarchaeology (2021), and A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (2022). He lives in San Diego with his wife, Melinda, and their dog Elsie.

E. N. Anderson is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967. He has done research on ethnobiology, cultural ecology, political ecology, and medical anthropology in several areas, especially Hong Kong, British Columbia, California, and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. His books include The Food of China (1988), Ecologies of the Heart (1996), The Pursuit of Ecotopia (2010), Caring for Place (2014), Everyone Eats (2014), Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China (2014), and, with Barbara A. Anderson, Warning Signs of Genocide (2012). He has five children and five grandchildren. He lives in Riverside, California, with his wife Barbara Anderson and three dogs.