Professor Janice Stargardt is a Professorial Research Fellow, working on the history of the environment, historical geography and archaeology of South, South East and East Asia in the Departments of Geography and Archaeology, Cambridge. She convenes a British Academy Project on early Buddhism, frequently serves as Visiting Professor at universities in Europe and Asia and takes part in innovative group research in India, Burma, Thailand and China.

She is known for discoveries of early historical sites and irrigation systems in Thailand and Burma, for studies of their environments, cultures and trade, tracing links with India, South East Asia and China. Her discovery of an ancient irrigation system in South Thailand led to its recent restoration with major benefits for the farming families in several southern provinces - a rare intersection of archaeology and development studies. Concurrently she is working on maritime trade in Asia, tracing key examples of its value and volume from the 11th - 16th cent., and considering the impact of European entry into this flourishing system.

Since 1976, she has emphasised the use of Remote Sensing in Archaeology and Environmental Studies; in 2004, she became UK Representative on the International Working Group on Remote Sensing in Archaeology, co-chaired by UNESCO and the Chinese Academy of Science and in 2008, gave an invited paper at the EarSel Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology, Rome. Her research is supported, among others, by grants from the University of Cambridge, the British Academy, the Royal Society, the Natural and Environmental Research Council [NERC], the Department for International Development [DFID] and British Council offices in Thailand, Burma and Malaysia.

Publications - Books and Monographs

• Stargardt, J. 2008: *The Sea Unites; essays in the maritime archaeology and remote sensing of South East Asia*. Cambridge, PACSEA, 210 pp (paperback).
• Stargardt, J. 2001: *Resources - A Common Pool for Whom and How? A review of NRSP's past and current CPR-related projects*. DFID NRSP Programme Development Report PD107, 31pp.(published online by NRSP).
• Stargardt, J. 2000: *Tracing Thought through Things: the Oldest Pali Texts and the Early Buddhist Archaeology of India and Burma*. Seventh Annual Gonda Foundation Lecture 1999; [revised and expanded] Monograph of the Royal Netherlands Academy, Amsterdam, 2000, 60 pp., 23 figs. & pls.
• Stargardt, J 1990, 1991: *The Ancient Pyu of Burma*. Vol. I, *Early Pyu Cities in a Man-Made Landscape*. PACSEA, Cambridge, in association with ISEAS, Singapore, (hardcover) December 1990, (paperback) April 1991, xxix + 436 pp., 135 figs., 32 pls.
• (1993: Translated into Japanese, University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters, Graduate Programme in South East Asian History)
• (1994: Translated into Burmese, University of Yangon (Rangoon), Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology, 1994.)
• Stargardt, J. et al. 1988 : *Histoire du paysage, archeologie et teledetection*. [History of the Landscape, Archaeology and Remote Sensing], with Jacques, C., M. Terrasse. J. Legorgeu. Paris, EPHE/CNRS, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes IV, 1988, 98 pp., 12 figs, 19 pls.
• Stargardt, J. 1983: *Satingpra I, the Environmental and Economic Archaeology of South Thailand*. British Archaeological Reports (BAR), Oxford in association with the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Oxford, 1983, xxiii+381 pp., 66 figs. &. pls. (Translated into Thai, Silapakorn University, Department of Archaeology, 1985.)