Barbara Seyock Editor

Barbara Seyock is a specialist in trade and exchange in prehistoric and historical East Asia. She received her doctorate in 2003 from the University of Tübingen on the archaeology and history of the "Eastern Barbarians" (proto-historical cultures in Korea and Japan). Her research focuses on early cultural transfer around the Korea Strait as well as trade and maritime exchange in pre-modern times in East and Southeast Asia.She has lectured on East Asian archaeology at the Dept. of Archaeology, Ruhr-University of Bochum and was a member of the VW-Project on “the East Asian Mediterranean” at Munich University.

Gina L. Barnes, PhD Michigan 1983. Taught East Asian Archaeology at Cambridge University 1981-1995 and at Durham University 1996-2006. She founded the East Asian Archaeology Network in 1990, which became the Society for East Asian Archaeology in 1996, serving as the first President (1996-1998). Her publications include State Formation in Korea (Routledge 2001), State Formation in Japan (2006), East Asian Archaeology (Routledge, 2015), TephroArchaeology (ed. with SODA Tsutomu, Archaeopress 2019), and Tectonic Archaeology (Archaeopress 2022).

Born in Japan, Fumiko Ikawa-Smith began her study of Anthropology in the USA as a Fulbright exchange student at Harvard University. She received doctorate in 1974 with a dissertation on the Early Palaeolithic cultures of Japan. It has remained the focus of her research interest, as she explored such topics as food and nutrition, gender in prehistory, and social contexts of archaeology. She is a co-founder of the Japan Studies Association of Canada, and served as its President three times.