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Himanshu Prabha Ray is associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she has taught since 1980. Her publications include Monastery and Guild: Commerce under the Satavahanas, Oxford University Press, 1986; The Winds Change: Buddhism and the Maritime Links of Early south Asia, Oxford University Press, 1994 (reissued as Oxford India Paperbacks, 1998); The Archaeology off Seafariing in Ancient South Asia, Cambridge University Press, 2003. In 1996, she jointly edited with Jean-Ffrancois Salles a volume titled, Tradition and Archaeology: Early Maritime Contacts in the Indian Ocean, Manohar, 1996. another volume Archaeology of Seafaring: The Indian Ocean in the ancient Period, was published in the Indian Council of Historical Research Monograph Series I, New Delhi, 1999.

Carla M. Sinopoli is Professor, Department of Anthropology and Curator of Asian Archaeology, Museum of anthropology, University of Michigan. Her publications include approaches to Archaeological Ceramics, Plenum Press, New York's London, 1991; Pots and Palaces: The Earthenware Ceramics of the Noblemen's Quarter of Vijayanagara, Manohar, 1993; The Political Economy of Crafts Production: Crafting Empire in India, Cambridge University Press, 2003. She has also edited The Archaeological Correlates of Hunter Gatherer Socieities (with F. Smilety et.al.), 1980 and Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History (with Susan E. Alcock et al.), Cambridge University Press, 2001.