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Peter van Dommelen is Joukowsky Family Professor in Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. His research focuses on the western Mediterranean and the Phoenician-Punic world, with a particular interest in colonialism and culture contact as well as rural life and landscape, both past and present. He is actively involved in fieldwork and ceramic studies in Sardinia and Mediterranean Spain and his most recent books are, with Carlos Gómez Bellard, Rural Landscapes of the Punic World, Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 11 (London: Equinox, 2008) and, co-edited with A. Bernard Knapp, Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean (London: Routledge, 2010).

Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros is ICREA Research Professor, director of the Institut d’Arqueologia as well as the Equip de Recerca Arqueològica i Arqueomètrica at the Universitat de Barcelona, and chercheur associée at Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CCJ, Aix-en-Provence, France. He is an archaeologist focusing on Roman and Late Antique Archaeology in the Western Mediterranean, and in pottery studies including archaeometry. One of his main interests is to investigate the transformation of the Roman world in Mediterranean islands. He co-directs the excavations at the Roman and Late Antique city of Pollentia (Alcúdia, Mallorca), and the Early Christian complex of Son Peretó (Manacor, Mallorca).