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Andrés Zarankin is currently Full Professor of Archaeology at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil), and Director of the Laboratório de Estudos Antárticos em Ciências Humanas (LEACH). He is editor of Vestigios; Revista Latino-Americana de Arqueologia Historica. His main research interests include Historical Archaeology, archaeological theory and Antarctic’s archaeology.

Michael Pearson is a former heritage consultant and researcher, who now works as an independent scholar. He has worked extensively in historical and industrial archaeology, heritage planning and World Heritage internationally for over four decades, and has undertaken extensive research in the Antarctic, with many published articles and books. He has been awarded the Order of Australia for his work.

Melisa A. Salerno is a researcher at the Multidisciplinary Institute of History and Human Sciences, National Council of Scientific and Technical Research in Argentina (IMHICIHU-CONICET). She has worked on several case studies in historical archaeology, with special emphasis in nineteenth-century Antarctica. Her research interests include the life of ‘invisible’ groups, power and identity dynamics, and embodied practices and experiences.