1. Timothy Insoll is Chair in African and Islamic Archaeology at the University of Manchester. He has been working in northern Ghana with Benjamin Kankpeyeng since 2004. He has previously completed archaeological fieldwork in Mali, Eritrea, and Bahrain.
2. Benjamin Kankpeyeng is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon. Previously he was a Curator with the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board in charge of Bolgatanga Museum. He completed his PhD at Syracuse University.
3. Sharon Fraser is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Manchester with interests in archaeological materials. She has completed analyses of archaeological glasses and ceramics, stone beads, and figurines using varied non-destructive analytical characterization techniques and organic geochemistry methods.