Thomas R. Whyte is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. He is the author of Boone before Boone: The Archaeological Record of Northwestern North Carolina through 1769, and co-editor of Exploring Tennessee Prehistory.

Until his death in March 2021, C. Clifford Boyd Jr. was a professor of anthropology and co-director of the Radford University Forensic Science Institute in Radford, Virginia. He was editor of Archaeological Adaptation: Case Studies of Cultural Transformation from the Southeast and Caribbean, and co-editor of Forensic Anthropology: Theoretical Framework and Scientific Basis.