Panagiotis Koullouros, PhD candidate (Archaeobotany at the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center (STARC) – The Cyprus Institute). This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Panagiotis Koullouros PhD candidate (Archaeobotany at the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center (STARC) – The Cyprus Institute) Panagiotis is a PhD candidate in Archaeobotany at the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center (STARC). He has received his Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from Queen Mary University of London (2017) and his Master’s degree in Environmental Archaeology from the University of Reading (2018). His research focuses on the study of charcoal materials from Greece and Cyprus during the 1 st  Millennium BCE. He is interested in the reconstruction and evolution of past vegetation cover in the region of the Eastern Mediterranean during this period with emphasis on its impact on human societies and their practices. Research interests: Anthracology, 1 st  Millennium BCE, Eastern Mediterranean, Paleoclimate, Climate Change and Human Societies. FB: Panagiotis Koullouros (https://www.facebook.com/pkoullouros); X: Panagiotis Koullouros/ @PanKoull (https://twitter.com/PanKoull).

Gavriela Logothetou, PhD Candidate, Laboratory of Archaeometry (University of the Peloponnese) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Gavriela Logothetou is a PhD candidate at the Laboratory of Archaeometry at the University of the Peloponnese. She studied Chemistry at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and completed her BSc in Science for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on the archaeometallurgical characterization of oxidized metal artifacts from the Early to Late Byzantine period in the Peloponnese, utilizing both conventional and non-conventional (e.g., TEM) analytical techniques and data science. Her aim is to trace trade influences and technological developments of ancient metalworking practices in the Peloponnese across this timeline. Recently, she is also applying electron-microscopic techniques for the archaeomagnetic dating of ancient ceramics at the nanoscale.

Department of Classics, Archaeology, and Religion & Archaeometry Laboratory at MURR, University of Missouri This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Caitlyn Pallas is a PhD candidate in classical archaeology at the University of Missouri. Her research focuses on Roman concrete, and she is particularly interested in examining how communities of practice came together to adapt the new technology of concrete to their built environment. She wants to elucidate how these communities initially began adopting this new technology in construction and how they modified the material, both chronologically and contextually, to fit their needs within the surrounding landscape. Her current research focuses on sites in central and southern Italy (Gabii and Pompeii), largely in the Late Republican and Early Imperial periods, and uses a combination of archaeometric techniques to examine the composition and mineralogy of Roman mortars.

Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Chicago This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Maria Isabel Guevara-Duque is an Ecuadorian archaeologist and Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of Illinois Chicago, currently the Women in Science Graduate Fellow at the Field Museum. She holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree in Archaeological Materials Science from the Universidade de Évora, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Sapienza University of Rome. Maria Isabel has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Ecuador and the U.S. and contributed to collections-based research at the Field Museum. Her research focuses on copper acquisition, consumption, and circulation in precolonial Ecuador, where she is building the country’s first comprehensive metallurgical database. Using pXRF, LA-ICP-MS, and Pb isotope analyses, she studies Andean metallurgy and Ecuador’s role in broader social and political networks. She promotes inclusive, interdisciplinary research and collaborates at the Field Museum’s Elemental Analysis Facility.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/maisaguevara-duque
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria-Isabel-Guevara-Duque
Academia: https://uic.academia.edu/MariaIsabelGuevaraDuque

Jessica Giles, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Indiana University – Indianapolis. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Jessica Giles is a graduate student in the Master of Applied Anthropology program at Indiana University–Indianapolis. With a focus on bioarchaeology, her fieldwork include excavations at Greenlawn Cemetery in Indianapolis and medieval funerary sites in Transylvania, Romania. She is currently working on her thesis which focuses on growth and health disparities of subadults in Indianapolis during the 19 th century, which earned her a prestigious fellowship from the Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Jessica brings over a decade of experience across museums, government agencies, and forensic units. She currently serves as an Archaeological Field Tech at Stantec and a Senior Laboratory Analyst at Indiana University–Indianapolis, where she conducts osteological analysis and advanced age-at-death estimation.

Alana Pengilley, Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Alana Pengilley is an archaeology PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include the application of geochemical techniques to archaeological and geological assemblages to study past trade and exchange systems and how they impacted inter and intra-regional community interaction. Her current research is focused on understanding the lithic economy of the Preclassic Lowland Maya, with a focus on the procurement and distribution of chert utilitarian tools. She is currently developing a methodology of the sourcing of Mesoamerican chert artifacts that employes geoarchaeological techniques, primarily focused on petrological, mineralogical, and geochemical methods. This research is currently supported by grants from the Geological Society of America, The Society for American Archaeology, and the University of Texas.

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, University of São Paulo, Brazil. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

Rebeca Custódio is a Master's student in Archaeology at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo (MAE-USP). Her research focuses on the funerary practices of the fisher-gatherer groups who occupied the Brazilian coast. She is particularly interested in the thermal alterations to human bones resulting from cremation rituals, integrating macroscopic and physicochemical analyses of burned remains to improve our understanding of funerary practices and the taphonomic pathways of thermally altered bones. Her academic background includes osteological curation, analysis of funerary contexts, and digital organization of skeletal collections. She is especially interested in the challenges of identifying intentional cremation and distinguishing different processes of thermal alteration in human remains.

Research interests: bioarchaeology, burned bones, archaeometry, cremation studies, paleopathology, and funerary archaeology.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5390-8819
X (Twitter): @rscbernardi

Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics, University of Iceland This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Maren is a PhD candidate in Biological Anthropology at the University of Iceland, supervised by Prof. Agnar Helgason and supported by a doctoral scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation). Her project investigates non-adult skeletal remains from several medieval Icelandic sites using macroscopic and biomolecular methods to explore questions related to health, mortality, and social identity among infants and children. So far, her research has found evidence of severe early-life health disruption, highlighting how life trajectories were shaped by the environmental and sociocultural conditions of the North Atlantic.

Beyond her doctoral project, Maren critically engages with the construction of historical narratives. She is particularly interested in how women and children are represented, and marginalized, in interpretations of the past, including recurring narratives of female infanticide and the broader exclusion of women and children from dominant archaeological discourse.

Research interests: Biological Anthropology, Archaeology of Childhood, Mother-Infant-Nexus, Feminist Theory.

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0704-0840