Christian Heitz is Senior Scientist at the Institut für Archäologien of the University of Innsbruck. He has been working in different areas, from the Aegean Bronze Age to Imperial Rome. Currently, he is studying contexts in the area of pre- and early Roman southern Italy and excavation director at Ascoli Satriano (prov. Foggia/Apulia). His research topics range from social structure, gender issues and iconography to textile and pottery studies.

Matthias Hoernes is a Mediterranean archaeologist at the University of Vienna, specialising in the funerary archaeology of pre-Roman southern Italy, particularly during the early Hellenistic period. He is also interested in transcultural encounters and dynamics in the Iron Age-Archaic Mediterranean, particularly in Sicily and southern Italy, as well as archaeological university collections, their history and cultural heritage management.

Agnes Henning is Researcher and Curator of the Antiquities Collection at the Winckelmann¿Institut of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research spans a wide spatial and chronological range, from Archaic Sicily and its Greek poleis to the provinces in the extreme east of the Roman Empire. The main focus of her research is on architecture and urbanism. In South Italy, she has been studying hilltop settlements and their fortifications in the mountains of Lucania for many years and has carried out several field research projects in this context.

Edward Robinson was Assistant Curator of the Nicholson Museum and then Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sydney. He conducted extensive fieldwork in Apulia and Basilicata. His principal research interests include ancient theatre, Information Classification: General the iconography and archaeometry of south Italian pottery, especially overpainted and red-figure wares, and cross-cultural contact in the region.