Addresses at the Opening Ceremony

• Congratulatory Address by Wang Weiguang

• Congratulatory Address by Yang Xiong

• Congratulatory Address by Liu Yuzhu

Field Discovery Awards

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• Archaeological Investigation into the Tusi Sites in China's Southwest:Imperial Expansion and the Colonization of Frontiers and Borderlands

• Exploring the Tunnel Underneath the Feathered Serpent Temple at Teotihuacan,Mexico

• Early Urbanism in Europe?-The Case of the Trypillia Mega-sites,Ukraine

• Revealing North America's First Native City:Rediscovery and Large-Scale Excavation of Cahokia's East St.Louis Precinct

• The Dawn of Technology:3.3-Million-Year-Old Stone Tools from Lake Turkana,Kenya

• Gravisca Emporion-the Port of the Etruscan City of Tarquinia:New Excavations at the Sanctuary of Śuris and Cavatha

• Discovering the Harbor of King Khufu at Wadi el-Jarf in Egypt

• A Very Early‘Palatial Complex' at Arslantepe,Malatya (Turkey):a New Trajectory to the Origin of the State

• Recent Studies at Noyon Uul Burial Mounds:Unknown Facts of Life of Central Asian Nomads

• Five Thousand Years of Taiwan's Past Brought to Light by Rescue Archaeology

Research Awards

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• Çatalhöyük:Important Anatolian Contributions to the Development of Early Societies

• Population Genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia

• Three Global Human Migrations in Eurasia:the Origin of Humans and the Peopling of Southwestern,Southern,Eastern and Southeastern Asia and the Caucasus

• Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe (EUROEVOL)

• Teopancazco:a Multiethnic Neighborhood Center at Teotihuacan,Central Mexico

• The Times of Their Lives:High-Resolution Radiocarbon-Based Chronological Analysis of the European Neolithic,through Formal Modelling

• Cuello:the Economic and Social Origins of Maya Civilisation

• The Origin and Spread of Broomcorn and Foxtail Millets

• The Earliest Farmers in the Southwest

• From First Farmers to First Cities:New Insights into the Agricultural Origins of Urban Societies in Western Eurasia

• The Great Temple Project:in Search of the Sacred Precinct of Mexico-Tenochtitlan

World Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series

• The Archaeology of Contact and Cultural Diversity:Egypt,Nubia and Punt,3500-1470 BCE

• The Materiality of the Colonial Encounter in South America:Resistance,Alliance and Ethnogenesis

• Ceramic Petrography as a Technique for Documenting Cultural Contact and Interaction in Prehistory

• The Silk Road Before the Han Dynasty

• Changing Connectivities at the Cross-roads between Africa and Europe:150,000 Years of Prehistory at the Haua Fteah Cave,Libya

• Trajectories of Settlement Growth:Contact,Diversity and Outcome in the Development of Low-density Settlements

• The“Centrality of Central Asia”Revisited:Ancient Civilization along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor

• Eurasian Art Styles in the First Millennium BC

• Southern Africa in Pre-modern Globalization

• Relevance of Ancient Cultural Heritage to the Modern Society-Aspirations and Future Challenges

• Castrum Inui:a Sanctuary for Two Ancestral Gods of Different Ethnic Groups

Public Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series

• The Role of Public Archaeology in Three Contrasting Contexts:Thailand,Cambodia and China

• Archaeology and the Human Condition:the Significance of Prehistory

• The Early Florescence of the Chinese Economy in Light of Archaeological Discoveries

Abstracts of Other Presentations

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