Ian Lilley is Reader in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies at the University of Queensland. He is a past President of the Australian Archaeological Association. Lilley currently conducts field research in Torres Strait and New Caledonia, and his recent publications include" Le Pacifique de 5000 a 2000 BP: Supplements a l'histoire d'une colonisation" (with Jean-Christophe Galipaud, 1999), "Native Title and the Transformation of Archaeology in the Postcolonial World "(2000), and "Histories of Old Ages: Essays in Honour of Rhys Jones" (with Atholl Anderson and Sue O'Connor, 2001).