Michael Boyd is a Senior Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. His main research interests lie in the archaeology of death and in the prehistoric Aegean, where he has worked in the Peloponnese and Cyclades. He is co-director of current excavations on Keros and co-editor of the Keros publications series. He has published a book on Mycenaean funerary practices, and is co-editing a volume on funerary archaeology, Staging Death, and another on the origins of play and ritual. He has worked widely in Greece and Bulgaria.
Roger Doonan is an archaeologist at Archaeological Research Services Limited, Sheffield. His research interests lie in Eurasian prehistory with an emphasis on craft practice as understood through innovative field methods. He has previously worked for English Heritage and held positions at the Universities of Bournemouth and Sheffield.