Editors’ Note

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Editors’ Note Francis Allard, Bérénice Bellina-Pryce, Julie Field, and Cristina Cobo Castillo Welcome to the latest issue of Asian Perspectives. As always, the journal remains committed to publishing high-quality research articles whose chronological and regional scope reflects its broad readership across East, South, and Southeast Asia and the Pacific region. You will note that several articles in this issue focus on the identification and interpretation of specific materials and technologies. The topics covered by four of the articles include rock art in early Mongolia, bone tools in prehistoric eastern China, metallurgy at the Han empire’s southern periphery, and plant remains and parasite microfossils in pre-contact New Zealand. A fifth article relies on settlement pattern and demographic data from Neolithic and Bronze Age China to draw insightful comparisons between the developmental trajectories of two distant regions. Also included in this issue are three book reviews: one on landscape, nature and historical imagination on the Indian subcontinent (by Pratik Chakrabarti, reviewed by John Lukacs), one on animal classification systems in ancient China (by Ningning Dong, reviewed by You Yue), and a third on the site of Non Ban Jak in Thailand (edited by C.F.W. Higham and A. Kijngam, reviewed by Carmen Sarjeant). We take this opportunity to welcome Cristina Castillo as the journal’s new Book Review Editor (contact apjabre@hawaii.edu) and thank Michèle Demandt for serving as the first editor dedicated to this important section of the journal. Michèle streamlined many of the editorial procedures for the book reviews. We wish her the best in all her future professional and personal endeavors. As mentioned in the previous issue, the Editors and University of Hawai‘i Press recognize the pressures faced by scholars to publish their manuscripts in the shortest time possible. As a way to address this, the journal has begun making “Early Release Articles” (ERAs) available on Project MUSE while manuscripts are still in press. Authors can now expect to see their manuscripts published as (uncopyedited) preprints within a few months of full acceptance instead of having to wait six to nine months for publication of the entire print issue. As a final note, the Editors look forward to meeting many of you at annual international and regional conferences, as well as smaller seminars, where we will be happy to discuss with interested scholars the possibility of publishing their research in Asian Perspectives. Meanwhile, feel free to contact the Editors at apjaeds@hawaii.edu with any inquiries regarding the requirements and timing of the editorial process. [End Page 219] Copyright © 2023 University of Hawai‘i Press