Yuri Cavero Palomino (Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional San Cristobal de Huamanga)

Yuri is a Peruvian archaeologist with more than twenty years of survey and excavation experience in Ayacucho.  He is licensiado in archaeology and a fluent Quechua speaker, and currently teaches archaeology in Ayacucho at the Universidad de Huamanga.

Daniel Alexander Contreras (Institute for Ecosystem Research, Kiel University)

Dan is a landscape geoarchaeologist with a Ph.D in Anthropological Sciences from Stanford University and more than ten years of archaeological experience in Peru.  He is currently a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Kiel University, Germany.

Nicholas Tripcevich (Archaeological Research Facility, U.C. Berkeley)

Nico's research focuses on Andean regional interaction and ancient quarrying with a Ph.D in Anthropology from U.C. Santa Barbara and more than ten years of archaeological experience in Peru.  He is currently the Laboratory Manager at the U.C. Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility.