Lesley McFadyen is Lecturer in Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London. She has published on a broad range of topics relating to the archaeology of time, architecture and geography in relation to European prehistory. She is the editor of The Prehistory of France (CUP in preparation, edited with Cyril Marcigny).
Dan Hicks MCIfA, FSA is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, School of Archaeology and Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He has published widely in Archaeology, Anthropology and Museum Studies, specialising in historical archaeology and the history of archaeology, and is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology (CUP 2006, with Mary Beaudry) and The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies (OUP 2010, with Mary Beaudry). With historian William Whyte, Dan is also General Editor of a six-volume series A Cultural History of Objects for Bloomsbury.