John W. (Jack) Ives is professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, and adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University and the University of Saskatchewan. He was founding executive director (2008-2019) of the Institute of Prairie Archaeology, now the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, where he remains a research associate. He is the author of A Theory of Northern Athapaskan Prehistory.

Joel C. Janetski is emeritus professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University, where he served as chair of the Department of Anthropology from 1998 to 2005. His related research is reported in books such as The Ute of Utah Lake, Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology in Utah Valley (with Grant Smith), and Archaeology and Native American History of Fish Lake, Central Utah.