Himanshu Prabha Ray is Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru Unversity, where she has taught since 1980. Her publications include Monestry and Guild: Commerce under the Satavahanas; Oxford University Press, 1986; The Winds of Change: Buddhism and the Maritime Links of Early South Asia, Oxford University Press, 1994 (reissued as Oxford India Paperbacks, 1998); The archaeology of Seafearing to Ancient South Asia, Cambridge University Press, 2003. In 1996, she jointly edited with Jean Francois Salles A volume titled, Tradition and Archaeology: Early Maritime Contacts in the Indian Ocean, Manohar, 1996. Another volume, Archaeology of Seafearing: The Indian Ocean to 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 Anthroplogy, University of Michigen. Her publications include approaches to Archaeological Ceramics, Plenum Press, New York ? London, 1991; Pots and Palaces: The Earthenware Ceramics of the Noblemen?s Quarter of Vijaynagara, Manohar, 1993; The Political Economy of Crafts Production: Crafting Empire in India, Cambridge University Press, 2003. She has also been edited The Archaeological Correlates of Hunter Gatherer Societies (with F. Smiley et al.), 1980 and Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and history (with Susan E. Alcock etal.), Cambridge University Press, 2001.
