Vaughn M. Bryanthttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5615-6803,^1,*,** Sarah M. Kampbell,^2,*** Jerome Lynn Hall<sup>3,****

1</sup>aPalynology Laboratory, Department oj Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 778
²bPrinceton University, 129 Dickinson Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA;
³cUniversity of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, California 92110-2492, USA

^* Corresponding author. Email: vbryant@neo.tamu.edu
^**VAUGHN M. BRYANT achieved degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (BA in geography, MA in anthropology, Ph.D. in Botany) and is currently a Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Texas A&M University Palynology Laboratory. He is a former editor and president of AASP and is currently a Trustee and the Secretary of the AASP Foundation.
^***SARAH M. KAMPBELL has earned a BA in Anthropology, History and Computer Applications from the University of Notre Dame, an MA in Anthropology (Underwater Archaeology) from Texas A&M University, an MA in History from Princeton University and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in History from Princeton University.
^****JEROME LYNN HALL is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of San Diego. He received his BS from Abilene Christian University, his MS from Nova-Southeastern University and his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. Dr Hall, a nautical archaeologist, is presently studying the construction of a first century wooden boat extracted from the Sea of Galilee, as well as continuing research on a seventeenth century northern European merchant shipwreck in the Dominican Republic.