Creighton Avery is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga, and an Osteoarcheologist with Stantec Consulting Ltd.  Recent publication includes a field guide Bioarcheology of Infants and Children for the series of Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques for the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA and Cambridge University Press.

Dana Thacher is Researcher at McMaster University in Canada and Field Technician for Archaeological Research Associates. Her most recent work uses historical cemetery data combined with primary historical sources to explore why some children and adolescents received a gravestone following their death when others did not. She specializes in historical archaeology, statistical methods, and mortuary archaeology and has previously published in Arctic (2018) as well as the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2017).