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. [website]

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 Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics, University of Passau. [website]

Marieluise Hahn is a research assistant at the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz at the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Germany. She completed her Bachelor and Master of Arts at the University of Tübingen at the Institute for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology and specialised in the field of Palaeolithic art, especially human representations and gender.

Saetbyul Lee is a software developer and software tester. She studied computational linguistics and was 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.

Russo Gabriele is a Ph.D. candidate in Zooarchaeology at the University of Tübingen. His research is part of the ERC project REVIVE, dedicated to studying archeofaunal material originating from Late Pleistocene Lebanese sites. His main focus revolves around investigating the evolution of human cognition and exploring the ecology and subsistence of ancient human species.