Voyages of Discovery The Archaeology of Islands

Atholl Anderson holds the Research Chair of Prehistory at the Australian National University and is also director of the ANU Centre for Archaeological Research. Professor Anderson has worked extensively in Pacific archaeology, primarily on issues of prehistoric colonization, including settlement patterns, chronology, landscape change, and faunal extinctions, and has also published in Maori ethnohistory and zooarchaeology. Lisbeth A. Carlson earned her Ph.D. from the University of Florida and is a principal investigator with Southeastern Archaeological Research in Gainesville, Florida. She has directed multiple Caribbean Island Earthwatch projects and numerous contract projects in the southeast United States. Her West Indian research interests include zooarchaeology, the biogeography of small islands, craft specialization, and cultural interactions between the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas. Dr. Carlson is presently a board member of the not-for-profit research organization Southern Oceans Archaeological Research, Inc., based in Pensacola, Florida. John F. Cherry is professor of classical archaeology and Greek at the University of Michigan, where he is also director of the graduate Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology, and curator of prehistory and publications for the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. His research interests include Aegean and Mediterranean prehistory, regional field survey, island archaeology, archaeological theory, and archaeological ethics. Robert A. Clifford received his master's degree in Anthropology at California State University-Long Beach. Mr. Clifford is currently a freelance writer in the Los Angeles area where he is working on his first novel. L. Antonio Curet received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 1992 and is on the faculty at the Field Museum in Chicago. He is primarily interested in social stratification and complexity and how stratified societies developed politically, socially, and economically. Dr. Curet has conducted archaeological research in Puerto Rico and Veracruz, Mexico, and is currently conducting excavations at the earliest ceremonial center of the Caribbean in Tibes, southern Puerto Rico. Brian Diveley is a recent graduate in Anthropology and Journalism at the University of Oregon. He has conducted field research in Palau, Micronesia, as part of the Palau Stone Money Project directed by Scott Fitzpatrick and for the Compact Road Project with International Archaeological Research Institute, Inc. His interests include maritime and underwater archaeology, World War II history, and Pacific Islands prehistory. Jon M. Erlandson is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. He has conducted extensive archaeological research along the Pacific Coast of North America, with an emphasis on California and the Northern Channel Islands. Dr. Erlandson's research interests include evolutionary and ecological approaches to the archaeology of maritime peoples, the peopling of the Americas, paleogeographic reconstructions, and human impacts on ancient environments. Scott M. Fitzpatrick is an assistant professor of anthropology at North Carolina State University. His research interests include island archaeology (Caribbean, Pacific, and East Asia), island migration and colonization, trade and exchange systems, culture contact, and archaeotourism. Dr. Fitzpatrick has worked in American Samoa, Barbados, Carriacou, Okinawa, Palau, and Pohnpei and is currently involved in research on early colonization and interaction spheres in the southern Caribbean and the western Pacific. William F. Keegan is curator of Caribbean archaeolog at the Florida Museum of Natural History, and professor of anthropology, natural resources, and the environment, and Latin American studies at the University of Florida-Gainesville. He has directed archaeological projects throughout the West Indies where his major interest is human-environmental interactions. Douglas J. Kennett is an assistant professor at the University of Oregon. His current research interests are in the behavioral ecology of maritime foragers and farmers of the Pacific and Pacific Rim. Dr. Kennett has conducted recent fieldwork on the island of Rapa (French Polynesia) and in southwestern Mexico and published extensively on his research. Peter V. Lape is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Washington and curator of archaeology at the Thomas Burke Museum. His main interests lie in archaeology and history, culture contact, colonialism, settlement patterns, and religious change in the western Pacific and the West Coast of North America. Dr. Lape is currently conducting fieldwork in East Timor. Madonna L. Moss has over 25 years of professional experience in the archaeology of southeast Alaska. She is an associate professor at the University of Oregon who uses ethnographic, ethnohistorical, and ecological sources to expand understanding of the archaeological record. Colin Renfrew of Kaimsthorn (FBA, FSA) was lecturer and then reader in prehistory and archaeology at the University of Sheffield between 1965 and 1972, and from 1972 to 1981, professor of archaeology and head of department at the University of Southampton. He has been the Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge since 1981, and director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research since 1990. Lord Renfrew was commissioner of English Heritage from 1976 to 1985 and a member of the Ancient Monuments Board, subsequently the Ancient Monuments Advisory Committee since 1974. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and was a trustee of the British Museum from 1990 to 2000. Torben C. Rick is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of Oregon. With research interests in coastal and maritime societies, social and economic complexity, and zooarchaeology, Rick has worked on numerous archaeological projects on California's Channel Islands, Southern California Coast, and Pacific Northwest. Hiroto Takamiya is professor of cultural studies at Sapporo University. His main interests include the prehistory of Okinawa, paleoethnobotany, and the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in Asia. John Edward Terrell is curator of oceanic archaeology and ethnology at the Field Museum in Chicago, and adjunct professor of anthropology at Northwestern University and at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His main research interests are in human biogeography and the prehistory of Melanesia, especially New Guinea. Rene Vellanoweth is assistant professor of anthropology at Humboldt State University. Dr. Vellanoweth's research is primarily focused on coastal archaeology and marine exploitation in the New World. He has conducted extensive research in California, particularly the Channel Islands. J. Peter White is a reader in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. Dr. White's main interests include the prehistory of Australia and the Western Pacific, archaeozoology, and scientific applications to archaeological problems (residues, heat treatment). He has worked at the Australian Museum in Sydney and the University of Sydney since 1967. He has also taught at the University of California-Berkeley and at the Universities of Arizona, Auckland, and Papua New Guinea.Fitzpatrick, Scott M. is the author of 'Voyages of Discovery The Archaeology of Islands', published 2004 under ISBN 9780275979478 and ISBN 0275979474.