--Mike T. Carson (Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Hawaii, 2002) investigates archaeological landscapes throughout the AsiaPacific region, with special emphasis in the Mariana Islands. He authored “First Settlement of Remote Oceania: Earliest Sites in the Mariana Islands” (Springer, 2014) and “Archaeological Landscape Evolution: The Mariana Islands in the Asia-Pacific Region” (Springer, 2016). He currently is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Richard F. Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC), University of Guam, and he is co-editor of “Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific.” Hsiao-chun Hung (Ph.D. in Archaeology, the Australian National University, 2008) concentrates on human migrations and trading networks in southern China, Taiwan, Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, and the Mariana Islands. Her cross-regional research has supported substantive comparisons of the archaeological materials from multiple sites, for instance toward tracing the ancient movements of people across the region. She currently is Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and Natural History at the Australian National University.
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