Timothy Clack is Chingiz Gutseriev Fellow in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK. In addition to cultural contact, his current research concerns heritage and armed conflict, environmental change as a driver of violence, and landscapes and identities. He is Senior Editor Cultural Heritage of the journal Cogent - Arts & Humanities.
Marcus Brittain is a Senior Project Officer at Cambridge Archaeological Unit and Member of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests include pioneer communities of the later prehistoric and later historical periods, the social value of archaeology, and archaeological methods and theory, primarily related to the UK, its overseas territories, and various parts of Africa.