Mike MacPhail<sup>1,*,**

1</sup>Department of Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

^*CONTACT Mike Macphail mike.macphail@anu.edu.au Department of Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
^**MIKE MACPHAIL is a palynostratigrapher with some 40 years industry and academic experience (and c 100 published papers) on the Mesozoic-Cenozoic palynostratigraphy of Australia and adjacent landmasses including Antarctica, New Zealand and South America (Argentina, Falkland Islands). In association with other Australian colleagues, he has helped develop the pollen and spore-based biostratigraphies currently used to date and correlate Australian Upper Cretaceous to Neogene terrestrial and offshore sedimentary sequences as well undertaking the pollen-analysis of Late Quaternary, prehistoric Indigenous and colonial era archaeological sites across southern Australia.