Stephen A. Kowalewski is a professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia and has done fieldwork in the Southwest, Georgia, and Mexico. Andrew k. Balkansky, an associate professor of anthropology at Southern Illinois University, is currently excavating early village sites in the Mixteca Alta. Laura R. Stiver Walsh is carrying out excavations with the Proyecto Arqueolgico Yucundaa at the Pueblo Viejo of Teposcolula, Mixteca Alta. Thomas J. Pluckhahn, associate professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida, is investigating early village societies of the Gulf Coast of the Southeastern United States.

John F. Chamblee, a postdoctoral research associate with the Coweeta Long-Term Ecological Project at the University of Georgia, is studying the historical ecology of land tenure in the southern Appalachian region. Vernica Prez Rodrguez, associate professor of anthropology at Northern Arizona University, is doing fieldwork on urbanism at Cerro Jazmn and its impact on the surrounding landscape. Verenice Y. Heredia espinoza assistant professor at the Colegio de Michoacn, is conducting a regional survey in the core zone of the Teuchitln tradition in Jalisco, Mexico. Charlotte A. Smith, principal archaeologist and owner of archaeofacts.com, is currently synthesizing Mesoamerican macroregional settlement pattern data.