Carol Diaz-Granados is a professional archaeologist and Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St Louis, where she has lectured for 39 years. Her major research focus is American Indian rock art, symbolism, and iconography, and associated oral traditions. Carol has written, edited, or co-edited five books and has chapters in various edited volumes and two museum exhibition catalogues. Her 2004 volume, Rock-Art of Eastern North America won an Outstanding Academic Title award. Carol was senior editor of Transforming the Landscape: Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos (2018).
Jan Simek is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Knoxville. his research interests include North American rock art, Palaeolithic and cave archaeology, human evolution, quantitative and spatial analysis and Southeastern archaeology.
George Sabo is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas and Director of the Arkansas Archeological Survey. His research centers on human/environment relationships, expressive culture (art and ritual) among Southeastern Indians from pre-contact to modern times, American Indian interactions with European explorers and colonists in the Southeast, and the anthropology of history in modern Caddo, Osage and Quapaw communities in Oklahoma.
Mark Wagner is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Archaeogoical Invetigations, Department of Anthropology, Univeristy of Southern Illinois at Carbondale. His research interests include the prehistory and early history of both Native Americans and Europeans in Illinois and the lower Ohio River Valley, culture contact issues between Native Americans and Euro-Americans and Native American rock art sites, spirituality and religious beliefs.
