Mari Yamasaki is Assistant Professor at the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Her main research interest is the relationship between humans and the sea in the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean. She published extensively on the topic including the monograph Conceptualizing Bronze Age Seascapes.

Emilio Rodríguez-Álvarez is a Galician archaeologist specialized in the study of ancient Greek culture and technology. He is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. Among his publications 'The Archaeology of Freediving: A Foundational Study' is a seminal article in this field.