Susan M. Kooiman is assistant professor of anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. She is the author of Ancient Cuisine, Technology, and Society in the Northern Great Lakes.
Jodie A. O’Gorman is associate professor emerita of anthropology at Michigan State University, specializing in the archaeology of the Midwest with a long-term interest in the intersection of food, gender, and community. Autumn M. Painter is an archaeologist with a regional focus of the eastern woodlands of North America and broad interests in zooarchaeology, foodways, social interaction, and coalescent communities.