Addresses at the Opening Ceremony

• Congratulatory Address

• Congratulatory Address

• Congratulatory Address

Major Archaeological Field Discoveries

• Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island Southeast Asia：50 Millennia of Prehistory at the Niah Caves，Borneo

• The Neolithic at Alsónyék in southern Hungary：a persistent place for 1300 years in the 6-5 millennia BC（Excavation and proceedings）

• Aqua Regis-King Herod the Great’s Usage of Water at Masada

• Revised Stratigraphy and Chronology for Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua in Indonesia

• Proyecto Arquelogico Hoyo Negro，Quintana Roo，Mexico

• Investigating Water Control，Exchange，and Ritual through Excavations of Pueblo Bonito，Chaco Canyon，New Mexico

• 65，000 Years of Human Occupation in Australia

• The Discovery and Political Significance of the A9 Tomb and Hieroglyphic Panels 3 and 4 at Xunantunich，Belize

• The Oldest Appropriation of a Deep Cave Environment in the World：Bruniquel（France）and the Early Neanderthals

• New Discoeries at Shijiahe—a Central Prehistoric Settlement in the Middle Yangtze Region

Research Awards

• Warfare，Drought，and Agriculture：Coping with Conflict and Food Insecurity

• Amara West Research Project：Exploring Lived Experience in Pharaonic Egypt’s Nubian Colony（1300-800 BC）

• The Tale of the Skrydstrup Woman

• The Milking Revolution in Temperate Neolithic Europe

• Interdisciplinary Approaches to Investigating and Preserving Copán’s Cultural Heritage

• Archaeology for a Young Future：the New Syrian Life of the Ancient City of Urkesh

• The Archaeology of China：From the First Village to the First State

• Early Humans at the Eastern Gate of Europe：The Discovery and Investigation of Oldowan Sites in Northern Caucasus

• Taosi：the Beginning of “China” and “Central Plains”

Distinguished Service Awards

• Editing Antiquity

• Public Archaeology in the Service of Peace

World Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series

• The Use of Water in Arid Southwestern Asia：from Neolithic Wells to Historical Water Systems

• Hydraulic Society and Water Management in the Ancient Maya Lowlands of Mesoamerica

• Early Farmers，Navigators，and the Austronesian Colonization of the Indo-Pacific Region-a Multidisciplinary Synthesis

• Water Management and the Expansion and Demise of Angkor

• Water Management and the Development of Early Centralized Societies in the Mesopotamian World

• The Boom and Bust of the Spread of Farming into Europe

• Aztec Rituals for Making Rain：the Aquatic Offerings of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan

• The Power of Water and Dragons in Three Early Cities：Cahokia，Paquime，and Liangzhu

• Semi-tropical Wetlands to Semi-arid Drylands：From Origins of Agriculture to the Beginnings of the Archaic State

• From Object to Subject：Towards a New Narrative for the Nile and Water in Ancient Egyptian Civilization

• The Archaeological Study on the Water Infrastructure and System of the Han Chang’an City

Public Archaeology Keynote Lecture

• Water，Water Everywhere—Even at（Green）Petra

• Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of the Civilization of Angkor

• Water and Urbanism in the Indus Civilization of Pakistan and India，2600-1900 BCE

• New Discoveries from the Giza Plateau：The Lost Port City of the Pyramids

• A Tale of Two Ikons：Paths to Complexity in World Prehistory

• Monumentality and Social Organisation：a European Prehistoric Perspective

• The Molecular Revolution in the Study of Ancient Disease

• “You Care for the Land and Water it”：Our Changing Relationships with Water

• A Daily Life of Water in the Angkorian World

Special Session：Recent Developments in Chinese Archaeology

• The Current Situation of Chinese Archaeology

• A Systematic Research on the Liangzhu City and its Hydraulic System

• New Technology and Application of Temporary Consolidation for Fragile Artefacts during Archeological Excavation

• King’s palace？ Huangchengtai at the Shimao Site

• The Shang Dynasty from an Archaeological Perspective

• Tongtiandong and Laonainaimiao：The Late Pleistocene Human Dispersals in East Asia

• East-West cultural interaction：a DNA approach

• Reconstructing the Political Geography and Structure of the Western Zhou from the Archaeological Discovery of Enfeoffed States

• Archaeology of Marquis of Haihun’s Tomb in Nanchang

• Study on the Changes of Structure and Layout of Ancient Chinese Capital Cities

Abstracts of Other Presentations

• The Changes of the Lower Yellow River Region in the Longshan Period and the Civilisation Evolution

• The Relationship between Ancient Agriculture and Nomadism：Various Patterns on the Basis of the Water Resource

• Archaeological Discovery and Research of Kunming Reservior Water System of Han and Tang Dynasties

• Recent Archaeological Excavations and New Understandings of the Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site

• Investigating Ancient kiln Industry in the Upper Gan River：a Surface Survey and Probing Result

• An Archaeological Discovery on the Fortification System in Chongqing during the Song-Mongol War

• Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Analysis of Human Bones of Xinglongou in 8000 BP

• New Archaeological Discoveries in Northern Xinjiang：The Copper Age，the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age

• The Earliest Coal Fire in the World：The Jirentaigoukou site at Nilek，Xinjiang

• Recent Development of the Bronze Age Archaeology Culture in the Bortala River Valley in Xinjiang

• The Marxism Archaeology in China

• Urban Water Management at Xi’an Region during the Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty

• New Archaeological Discoveries of Koguryo and Bohai in Jilin Province Since 21st Century

• Dose Rice Agricultural Practice Originate from Continental Shelf Along the East China Sea？

• Discovery and Research of the Jingkou Sunken Silver Site

• The Confirmation and Significance of the Bronze Age Sites in the High Altitudes of the Bortala River Basin in Xinjiang

• Violence in the Prehistoric Periods of Japan

• “I Have Never Polluted the River Nile” Egypt-Current Practices In the Museums of Egypt

• Geoarchaeology of Maya Wetland Agroecosystems in Global Contexts

• Cheung Ek Kiln Sites，Cambodia

• Invoking for Rains：New Evidence On the Late Neolithic Ceremonial Practices In the Light of the Recent Discovery At the Western Desert，Southern Egypt

• Water，Drought and Social Change：the Demise of the Late Neolithic Settlement at Çatalhöyük in Central Anatolia

• Why is China’s Bronze Age Unique？

• Wittfogel in Shanghai：From Prehistoric Water Management to the Emergence of the Hydraulic Ideology in Early China

• Water in Sasanian Temple（224-651 A.D.）

• Recent Archaeobotanical Research in the South Asia

• Water as a Commodity and as a Source of Symbolic and Artistic Inspiration in the Prehistoric Aegean

• Water，Animals and the Harappans：A Study of the Development of Human Animal Interactions Along the Ghaggar River System in Northern India during the Harappan Civilisation

• Hydraulic Works for Intensive Agriculture：Construction and Closure.Elements to Understand the Development and Collapse of Teotihuacan

• Water in the Desert：Water Storage Systems at Tel Beer-sheba and Tel Arad

• Preservation and Presentation of Prehistoric Sites：A Historic Survey from Turkey

• Human/Landscape Interactions of Greater Cahokia

• Ancient Maya Water Management at the City of La Milpa

• The Afro-Eurasian Bronze Age as Pre-Modern Globalisation

• Trade，Technology，and Ideology of the Indus Cities，2600-1900 BCE

• The Emergence and The Dispersal of Neolithic Way of Living-Form Core to Peripheries

• Water Histories of Ancient Yemen and the American West

• Archaeology of Sacred Spaces：the Temple in Western India

• The Origins of Agriculture in China in a Global Perspective

• Water and the Origins of Maya Civilization

• The Menga Dolmen Water Well（Antequera，Spain）：Recent Investigations on an Exceptional Hydrological Feature of Megalithic Architecture

• Living in the Floodplain：Human Adaptations in the Lower Paraná River of South America

• Water，Society and Civilization at Bhitargarh Archaeological Site in Bangladesh

• Recent Developments in Contract Archaeology in Nigeria

• A Nazi Hideout at the Border of the Parana River（Paraguay and Argentina）

• Importance of Waterscape in Town Planning in Ancient Sri Lanka

• How Useful is it to Study Gender in Archaeology？

• Stone Corrals in the North Caucasus-GIS and Soil Studies of the Traces of Early Medieval Animal Husbandry

• Water，Climate Change，and the Origins of Southeast Asian states