Catherine J. Frieman is Associate Professor of European Archaeology at the Australian National University, Australia. She specialises in material culture and technology studies. Her research interests include the nature of archaeological enquiry, patterns of innovation and resistance, the role of aDNA for modelling past societies, and Neolithic and Bronze Age flint daggers. Her books include An Archaeology of Innovation (2021).

Martin Furholt is Professor of Prehistoric and Social Archaeology at Kiel University, Germany. His research focuses on social and political organisation of Neolithic Europe, with a special interest in mobility and social change as well as the impact of aDNA analyses on the field.

Stefan Burmeister is the Director of the Varusschlacht Archaeological Museum, Germany. His research interest is in European migration during the Iron Age and Roman period. He has published extensively on the possibilities of identifying migration archaeologically, as well as on archaeological approaches to ethnicity.

Niels Nørkjær Johannsen is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Aarhus University, Denmark. His main research focus is on the Neolithic of northern and central Europe. He has published on cognitive approaches to material culture and on the development and impact of wheeled vehicle technology in prehistoric Europe.