Mike T. Carson (PhD in Anthropology, University of Hawai'i, 2002) has investigated archaeological landscapes throughout the Asia-Pacific region. He currently is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Richard F. Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center at the University of Guam. He was author of Archaeological Landscape Evolution: The Mariana Islands in the Asia-Pacific Region (Springer, 2016) and Archaeology of Pacific Oceania; Inhabiting a Sea of Islands (Routledge, 2018), and he was editor of Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific (University of Hawai'i Press, 2014–2020).

• 1. What can we learn from palaeolandscapes in archaeology? 2. Potential contributions of palaeolandscape archaeology: building strength through diversity 3. 25 Years of geoarchaeological research on Paleoindian landscapes: a look back at the discipline 4. Pathways along the pacific: using early stone tools to reconstruct coastal migration between Japan and the Americas 5. From wetlands to deserts: the role of water in the prehistoric occupation of eastern Jordan 6. Creating living predictive models of coastal palaeoenvironmental landscapes: Georgia, USA 7. The Maya domestic landscape and household resilience at Actuncan, Belize: a reconstruction and modern implications 8. Holocene sea-level change and evolution of prehistoric settlements around the Yangtze Delta region 9. Palaeolandscapes, radiocarbon chronologies, and the human settlement of southern lowland and island Papua New Guinea 10. Kisim save long graun: understanding the nature of landscape change in modelling Lapita in Papua New Guinea 11. How island peoples adapt to climate change: insights from studies of Fiji’s hillforts 12. 3500 years in a changing landscape: the House of Taga in the Mariana Islands, western Micronesia 13. What have palaeolandscapes revealed about the past and for the future?

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