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342 about the authors About the Authors Grazyna Badowski is assistant professor at the Division of Mathematical Sciences, University of Guam. Her research interests are stochastic models and statistics. Email: gbadowski@uguam.uog.edu Hermann Behling is full professor at the Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics, Albrechtvon -Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Germany. He focuses on Holocene vegetation dynamics in the tropics inferred from pollen analytical investigations of sediment and peat cores. Email: Hermann.Behling@bio.uni-goettingen.de Bérénice Bellina-Pryce is researcher in South and Southeast Asian Archaeology at C.N.R.S (National Centre for Scientific Research), France, and she is honorary senior researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, U.K. Her research interests are: South and Southeast Asian archaeology, maritime exchange, urbanism, state formation and technological transfers. Email: berenice.bellina@ivry.cnrs.fr Roger Blench is chief research officer at the Kay Williamson Educational Foundation in Cambridge, U.K. His special interest is the interface between linguistics, archaeology and material culture. Email: rogerblench@yahoo.co.uk Boonyarit Chaiswan is an archaeologist and head of Muang Sing Historical Park in Kanchanaburi Province, Western Thailand. His research interests are: archaeology in Thailand and maritime exchange. Email: boonyarit_toi@yahoo.com Judith Cameron is Australian Research Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Her research focuses on archaeological textiles, a generic term for a wide range of fibre artifacts, including bark cloth, matting, cordage, basketry and textiles woven on looms. Email: Judith.Cameron@anu.edu.au Alison Kyra Carter is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S. Her dissertation research is focused on examining Iron Age trade networks in Mainland Southeast Asia through a study of stone and glass beads from Cambodia and Thailand. Email: alisonkyra@gmail.com Chaturaporn Tiamtinkrit is an archaeologist at the Fine Arts Department, Nan Museum, Thailand. His research focus is the archaeology of Thailand. Email: chiamtinkrit@hotmail.com Chawalit Khaokhiew is an archaeogeologist at the Department of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. His research focus is Quaternary geology of Thailand. Email: khiew10@gmail.com Cherdsak Treerayapiwat is an archaeologist at the Northern Archaeological Center, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. His research focus is on the geoarchaeology of Northern Thailand. Email: cherdsak_t@hotmail.com Stephen Chia is currently Associate Professor and Deputy Director at the Centre for Global Archaeological Research, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. He graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons.) 342 Crossing Borders hi res combined342 342 8/23/2012 7:48:49 PM 343 about the authors in Chemistry (1989) and completed his MA (1993) and PhD (1997) in Archaeology at Universiti Sains Malaysia. His main research interests include the study of prehistoric cultures in Malaysia and Southeast Asia as well as scientific studies and conservation of archaeological artifacts and sites. Email: stephen@usm.my Anne-Sophie Coupey is the archaeologist in charge of anthropological studies within the French Archaeological Mission in Myanmar, University of Rennes, France. Her main research interests are field anthropology, funeral archaeology and sub-adult burials in Southeast Asia. Email: coupeyas@yahoo.fr Anne Dambricourt Malassé is a researcher at the Département de Préhistoire du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France. Her studies are concerned with palaeoanthropology, ontogenic development and the early peopling of Asia. Email: iphadm@mnhn.fr Eric de Carlo is professor at the Department of Oceanography, School of Oceanography and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, U.S. His research interests are geochemistry and oceanography. Email: decarlo@soest.hawaii.edu Eusebio Z. Dizon is a researcher / archaeologist of the National Museum of the Philippines and lecturer of the Archaeological Studies Program at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Philippines. His main research interests are Philippine Archaeology and Prehistory of Southeast Asia. Email: drbongdizon@yahoo.com Laure Dussubieux is Research Scientist at the Elemental Analysis Facility, Department of Anthropology of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, U.S. Her research interests are: chemical analysis of ancient artifacts, with a focus on ancient glass from South and Southeast Asia. Email: ldussubieux@fieldmuseum.org Hubert Forestier is a prehistorian at the Unité Mixte de Recherche 208 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement-Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Bondy, France. He is a specialist of lithic technology and of the Stone Age period in Southeast Asia. Email: hubforestier@gmail.com Michael Francken has studied archaeology and paleoanthropology at the...

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