Gyoung-Ah Lee (B.A. 1992, Seoul National University; M.S. 1997, Ph.D. 2003, University of Toronto) became an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon in fall, 2007. Her topical interests are paleoethnobotany, paleoenvironment, social complexity in early states, transition from foraging to food production, traditional farming technologies, phylogenetics of crops, labor organization, ideology of food, gendered archaeology, and quantitative archaeology. Her chronological and geographic interests include Neolithic, Bronze, and early historical periods in Korea; the Neolithic to Shang periods in China; Jomon-Yayoi periods and Ainu history in Hokkaido; and Late Woodland & Iroquoian tradition in the eastern North America. Her recent publications include "Contextual analysis of plant remains at the Erlitou-period Huizui site, Henan, China" (with S. Bestel), Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (BIPPA) 27:49-60 (2007); "Plants and People from the Early Neolithic to Shang periods in North China" (with G. W. Crawford, L. Liu, and X. Chen.). PNAS 104(3):1087-1092 (2007); and "Review of new data on rice domestication in China" (in Korean with the English abstract). Journal of the Korean Archaeological Society 61:42-69 (2006).