Dave Schmitt is a research associate with the department of anthropology at Washington State University and part-time archaeologist with the Desert Research Institute. He is coauthor of Buzz-Cut Dune and Fremont Foraging at the Margin of Horticulture, University of Utah Anthropological Papers Number 124 (University of Utah Press, 2005).
David Madsen is an archaeologist with Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory. He is the author of Entering America: Northeast Asia and Beringia before the Last Glacial Maximum (University of Utah Press, 2004) and coauthor of Buzz-Cut Dune and Fremont Foraging at the Margin of Horticulture, University of Utah Anthropological Papers Number 124 (University of Utah Press, 2005).