Jo Zalea Matias is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social Science at Wilbur Wright College, Chicago, USA. Her research interests include gender and identity in Iron Age Britain and France and gender in popular media and academic representations of the past. She is a Principal Investigator on the New Light on Old Sites project.
Nicola Scheyhing is Magister of Prehistoric Archaeology working at the Arche Nebra Visitor Centre in Germany as Project/PR Manager. Additionally, she researches and publishes as an independent researcher on topics such as storytelling and science communication, the materiality of rituals, and burial related materials of the prehistory of Southwestern Asia and Central Europe.
Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann is a qualified (habil.) senior research fellow at the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interest include lifeworlds, gender roles, and identity; visual representations of the past; the archaeology of death and burial; as well as methods of didactics and higher education in current archaeological study programs.