Justin Lev-Tov Editor

Justin Lev-Tov was assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama Birmingham until 2005. He continues to conduct and publish zooarchaeological research as a part of various excavation projects in Israel and Jordan.
Paula Wapnish Hesse was staff zooarchaeologist for the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon (Israel) from 1985 until the conclusion of excavations. She continues to research and publish on many of Ashkelon's unique features, such as the dog burials and the worked bone and ivory industries.
Allan S. Gilbert is Professor of Anthropology at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. After early research in the zooarchaeology of the Near East, Gilbert has been engaged in geoarchaeology and the historical archaeology of New York City.