Acknowledgments
We thank both reviewers for their insightful comments and suggested edits.
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Notes on contributors
Yijie Zhuang
Yijie Zhuang is Associate Professor in Chinese Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. His research interests lie in ecology of early agriculture, long-term land use and landscape changes, irrigation and water management and diverse trajectories to social complexity in East, South and Southeast Asia.
Ran Zhang
Ran Zhang is Assistant Professor at the Department of Archaeology, Durham University. His research is concerned with how ancient Chinese trade affected the maritime economy in the Indian Ocean and Europe from the eighth to the nineteenth centuries. He also has expertise in the identification and dating of Chinese ceramics.
Sarah Semple
Sarah Semple is a Professor in Archaeology at Durham University where she teaches and researches on the landscapes, funerary archaeology and material culture of early medieval Britain and Northern Europe. She is the author of Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England (2019) and a co-author of Negotiating the North: Meeting Places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea Zone (2020).