Gesa Mackenthun teaches American studies at Rostock University and is the author and co-editor of several works, including Metaphors of Dispossession: American Beginnings and the Translation of Empire.

Christen Mucher is an associate professor of American studies at Smith College and the author of Before American History: Archives, Antiquities, and Native Pasts.

Decolonizing "Prehistory" critically examines and challenges the paradoxical role that modern historical-archaeological scholarship plays in adding legitimacy to, but also delegitimizing, contemporary colonialist practices. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume empowers Indigenous voices and offers a nuanced understanding of the American deep past.