Takeshi Ueki is a Professor Emeritus at Kyoritsu Women' s University System. He specializes in the Upper Palaeolithic Period of the Japanese Archipelago and is Chairperson of the Japan Association for Archaeoinformatics.

Glenn R. Summerhayes has worked on the archaeology of Papua New Guinea for the past 40 years. Since 2005 he has been Professor of Anthropology at Otago University.

Peter Hiscock researches evolutionary processes operating in human social and economic life.