Dr. Bradley Lepper is Curator of Archaeology at the Ohio Historical Society and an occasional visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He is the editor of the journal Current Research in the Pleistocene, and has contributed numerous articles to various books and journals on the Ice Age peoples of midcontinental North America. More recently, Lepper has been studying the later peoples of the Ohio Valley who constructed the magnificent mounds and earthworks for which this region is renowned. Lepper's research has been featured in popular magazines such as Archaeology, Discover, and National Geographic.