Sabina Cveček is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow at the Field Museum of Natural History and a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on prehistoric kinship, households, and social organization in the eastern Mediterranean and southeastern Europe.

Timothy Earle is professor emeritus and former chair of anthropology at Northwestern University, known for comparative research on political economy, leadership, chiefdoms, and the development of social complexity.

Carol R. Ember is a cultural anthropologist and the president of the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University whose work uses cross-cultural research to examine human societies, including warfare, kinship, gender, and cultural evolution.

Gary M. Feinman is an archaeologist and the MacArthur curator of anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

William A. Parkinson is a curator and associate director of anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History, as well as a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work focuses on European prehistory, particularly social organization, migration, interaction, and the emergence of complex societies.