Ewa Dutkiewicz holds a PhD in Paleolithic archaeology from the University of Tübingen. One of her research topics is the emergence and evolution of symbolic communication, with a focus on abstract motifs from the Aurignacian of the Swabian Jura. Currently she is the curator of the Stone Age Department of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, and an external member of the DFG Center for Advanced Studies "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools" at the University of Tübingen.

Christian Bentz holds a PhD in Computation, Cognition, and Language from the University of Cambridge. He is currently an Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat) at the Department of General Linguistics, and an external member of the DFG Center for Advanced Studies "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools" at the University of Tübingen. [website]

Russo Gabriele completed his bachelor's degree in archeology at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is currently enrolled for the Master's degree in Naturwissenschaftlicher Archäologie at the University of Tubingen focusing on prehistory and zoo archeology.

Saetbyul Lee is a student in computational linguistics and a student assistant at DFG Center for Advanced Studies "Words, Bones, Genes, Tools" at the University of Tübingen.

Stephanie Samson is a software engineer and open source contributor. She studied computational linguistics at University of Tübingen.

David Matzig is specialized in quantitative methods in Archaeology and holds both a BA (Tübingen University) as well as a MA(Kiel University) in pre- and protohistory. Since February 2020 David is pursuing a PhD at Aarhus University where he is concerned with culture-historical taxonomies for the European Final Palaeolithic/earliest Mesolithic.