List of contributors

Bill Angelbeck is an archaeologist and anthropologist who focuses on cultures of Salishan peoples of the Northwest Coast and Interior. Since the year 2000, he has worked throughout the Northwest on academic and applied projects, involving archaeology, ethnography and ethnohistory. He holds a doctorate in archaeology from the University of British Columbia and a master’s degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Missouri. Topical interests are in archaeological theory, sociopolitical organization, religion, ideation and heritage, as well as collaborative and indigenous archaeologies. His fieldwork is based in North America (Southeastern Woodlands, Central Plains, Interior Plateau, Northwest Coast of North America, Alaska) and his current field project investigates the social organization of pithouse villages throughout Lil’wat traditional territory in south-central British Columbia. Recent publications include articles in the Journal of contemporary archaeology, World archaeology and Current anthropology.

Konrad Antczak’s current research focuses on the historical archaeology of 16th- to 19th-century commodities, seafaring mobilities and identities in the south-eastern Caribbean. In his research he explores the theoretical contours of human–thing entanglements, the itineraries of things, and assemblages of practice. Recent publications include Islands of salt. Historical archaeology of seafarers and things in the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1624–1880 (2019) and ‘The asymmetries of disentanglement’, a commentary in this journal.

Mary C. Beaudry’s current research focuses on food, material culture and theories of practice, identity and gender; recent publications include Archaeology of food. An encyclopedia (co-edited with Karen B. Metheny) (2015) and Beyond the walls. New perspectives on the archaeology of historical households (co-edited with Kevin R. Fogle and James A. Nyman) (2015).

Trine Louise Borake is a Curator and Archaeologist employed at the Museum of Western Zealand who is currently affiliated with Aarhus University conducting a Ph.D. project on Scandinavian central places. Her primary interest concerns social organization and dynamics, with a primary focus on the Iron Age to the Middle Ages. She is interested in human agency and interactions and in how social interplay and influence are manifested and negotiated. She has initiated and conducted fieldwork and research on Iron Age and medieval farmsteads in Zealand, Denmark. Recently, she has engaged in studies on detector material – a rapidly accumulating body of material in Scandinavian archaeology with potential to challenge and add nuance to ideas on social organization.

Colin Grier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University. His archaeological research concerns complex hunter-gatherer-fisher societies worldwide, with a particular emphasis on reconstructing the ancient and recent histories and past practices of peoples of the Northwest Coast of North America. He is concerned with elucidating alternative forms of political and social organization that can promote sustainable economies, including decentralized forms of resource control. His recent publications relate to monumentality and terraforming practices amongst hunter-gatherer-fisher societies, documenting the extent to which these societies actively constructed their landscapes for social, economic and political ends. His current field research, funded by the US National Science Foundation, involves using geophysical methods to map subsurface plankhouse architecture in order to better illuminate changing household and community organization in the Salish Sea region of the West Coast of North America.

Eva Parga-Dans is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology (IPNA-CSIC) and at the CICS.NOVA, University Nova of Lisbon (Portugal). She holds a BA in sociology and a Ph.D. in applied economy. She specializes in the sociology of innovation and in the organizational field of heritage and culture. This work was supported by the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit-CSIC).

Svein Vatsvåg Nielsen is a Ph.D. Candidate in archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway. His research interests range from archaeological theory to the formation of Mesolithic and Neolithic societies in Northern Europe, more specifically the bridging of different scales of analysis and the application of novel computational methods.

Stuart Rathbone graduated from Bournemouth University in 2002 and has worked primarily in Ireland and the western United States, with shorter stints spent in Scotland and England. He has split his time fairly evenly between CRM projects and research projects. He has published on a wide range of topics, including prehistoric buildings and settlement patterns, post-medieval transhumant farming structures, applications of anarchist theory to archaeology, and dead horses. Much of his work has an experimental nature, such as his discussions of the archaeology of Drum and Bass, the use of William S. Burroughs’s ‘cut-up’ method to generate new perspectives for archaeological interpretation and his phenomenological assessment of an illegally constructed replica of Stonehenge on an Irish island. He is currently working on the excavation of a large historic railyard in northern California and an architectural survey of a radioactive mid-20th-century copper mine in Nevada. His doctoral thesis detailing the Napoleonic-era signal stations of Ireland is in the final stages of editing and will be submitted shortly.