Steve Ashby is a Senior Lecturer at the University of York specialising in the archaeology of medieval portable material culture and technology with a particular interest in the relationship between the various regions of Britain and Scandinavia before, during, and just after the Viking Age and application of scientific techniques and anthropological theory to the analysis of familiar materials.
Søren Sindbæk is a lecturer at the University of York and is a medieval archaeologist specialising in Viking Age Scandinavia. His research interests focus on cultural communication, exchange and social networks in early medieval Northern Europe, and on the application of network theory and analysis to archaeological problems.