Penny Bickle is a lecturer in archaeology at the Univerity of York. She holds a PhD from the University of Cardiff. The main focus of her research is Neolithic Europe, especially in the application of bioarchaeological methods to various sites and time periods to inform on issues of identity and social diversity, and how we can use burial practices to uncover the social lives and lifeways of the earliest farmers in Europe.
Emilie Sibbesson is a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Canterbury. She obtained her PhD from the University of Southampton. Her research interests focus on food and agricultural history, the history of science, and material culture studies, including food technology, prehistoric ceramics, human-plant interaction and the history and use of museum collections