Ana M. S. Bettencourt is Assistant Professor of Archaeology (with Habilitation) at Departamento de História, Instituto de Ciências Socias da Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, where she teaches the Archaeology degree and masters. She has also given several lectures in other Portuguese and Spanish universities and has been advisor of several Ph.D. and master's theses and dissertations of Portuguese and foreign students. Her main research interests are: burial contexts and practices; rock art; metallurgy and mining of the Iberian Peninsula Prehistory, under which she has published numerous books, book chapters and articles in international journals and developed, as responsible researcher, several projects with international funding. Currently she is Head of the History Department and Director of the Master in Archaeology.
Manuel-Santos-Estévez obtained his PhD in History in 2004 at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. His main research is oriented to rock art, sculpture, and landscape archaeology. From 1995 he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Landscape Archaeology Laboratory (USC) and of Institute of Galician Studies Padre Sarmiento (CSIC) and, since 2009, hired researcher at Institute of History (CCHS-CSIC). Since 2014 he is a post-doctoral researcher of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, at Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal. He directed 50 archaeological projects, including at Campo Lameiro Archaeological Park, in Galicia, Spain. He also participates in several projects related to rock art. He published a number of papers in international reviews as Trabajos de Prehistoria, World Archaeology, Journal of Indo-European Studies or Journal of Archaeological Science.
Hugo Aluai Sampaio has a Ph.D. in Settlement and Landscape Archaeology at Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal. Its research is dedicated to the Northwestern Bronze Age, focusing on issues related to metallurgy and deposition of metallic objects, funerary practices and contexts, settlement and rock art. He also developed projects in the area of Archaeology and Tourism. He has published in books, book chapters, as well as in several international journals. He is an invited Assistant at Universidade do Minho, Braga, and Instituto Polictécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal, when he teaches curricular units about Archaeological Heritage and Prehistory.
