Dr. Bethany L. Turner received her PhD in Anthropology from Emory University. She has published 20 peer-reviewed papers and 9 book chapters in social bioarchaeology, geochemical bioarchaeology, and the anthropology of food and diet, including 1 with Springer. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. She has also served as an Associate Editor for Journal of Archaeological Science since 2018. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr.

Haagen D. Klaus received his Ph.D. in anthropology from The Ohio State University in 2008. Since 2002, he has directed the Lambayeque Valley Biohistory Project in Peru, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the National Geographic Society. He has previously co-edited three volumes and two special issues of the International Journal of Paleopathology , and has authored or co-authored 23 journal articles and 25 book chapters on diverse topics, from the diagnosis of diverse infectious and metabolic diseases in human skeletal remains to paleodiet, funerary archaeology, colonialism, biological distance analysis, and ritual violence. He is currently an associate professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason Unviersity in Fairfax, Virginia.