Schedule of the Second Shanghai Archaeology Forum 2015

The Shanghai Archaeology Forum (SAF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the investigation, presentation, and protection of the world’s archaeological resources and cultural heritage. It will serve as an international platform for the illumination of archaeological research and its significance and relevance to the world today. It is fully committed to excellence through innovation, collaboration, and sustainable development.
 
The Second Shanghai Archaeology Forum will take place at Shanghai University, 14-17 December 2015. The opening ceremony and plenary sessions will be held in the Lecture Hall of the University Library, and all other sessions in the conference rooms of Lehu New Building (Guest House).
 
13 December 2015
08:00-24:00
Delegates Arrive, Registration
 
Morning, 14 December 2015
09:00-10:00
Lecture Hall, Library
 
OPENING CEREMONY
1. Welcome Address delivered by the Honorable Yang Xiong, Mayor of Shanghai
 
2. Congratulatory Address delivered by the Honorable Liu Yuzhu, Director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage
 
3. Opening Address delivered by the Honorable Wang Weiguang, President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
 
4. SAF Lifetime Achievement Award presented to the Honorable Colin Renfrew, the former Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge
 
5. 2015 SAF Awards Ceremony
 
10:00-10:15
COFFEE BREAK
 
10:15-12:00
Lecture Hall, Library
SESSION 1: SAF Awards Program Presentation – Field Discovery Awards
 
12:15-13:30
LUNCH BREAK
Afternoon, 14 December 2015
 
Afternoon, 14 December 2015
13:30-16:00
Lecture Hall, Library
SESSION 2: SAF Awards Program Presentation – Field Discovery Awards
 
16:00-16:30
COFFEE BREAK
 
16:30 - 17:30
Lecture Hall, Library
SESSION 3: SAF Awards Program Presentation – Research Awards
 
Evening, 14 December 2015
18:00-20:00
WELCOME BANQUET
 
19:00-21:00
Xuehai Hall, Lehu New Building
Public Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series
 
The Role of Public Archaeology in Three Contrasting Contexts: Thailand, Cambodia and China
Speaker: Charles Higham (Cambridge University)
 
Chairs: Cheng-hwa Tsang (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica)
Bai Yan (Beijing Institute of Cultural Heritage)
 
Morning, 15 December 2015
 
08:00-10:00
Lecture Hall, Library
SESSION 4: SAF Selection Program Presentation – Research Awards
 
10:00-10:30
COFFEE BREAK
 
10:30-12:00
Lecture Hall, Library
SESSION 5: SAF Selection Program Presentation – Research Awards
 
12:00-13:30
LUNCH BREAK
 
Afternoon, 15 December 2015
 
13:30-15:30
Lecture Hall, Library
SESSION 6: SAF World Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series – Archaeology of Culture
Contact and Cultural Diversity
Chairs: Innocent Pikirayi（University of Pretoria）
Cao Jin（Guangdong Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology）
 
13:30-14:00
The Archaeology of Contact and Cultural Diversity: Egypt, Nubia and Punt, 3500-1470 BCE
Speaker: Kathryn Bard (Boston University)
 
14:00-14:30
Changing Connectivities at the Cross-roads between Africa and Europe:150,000 Years of Prehistory at the Haua Fteah Cave, Libya
Speaker: Graeme Barker (University of Cambridge)
 
14:30-15:00
Trajectories of Settlement Growth: Contact, Diversity and Outcome in the Development of Low-density Settlements
Speaker: Roland Fletcher (University of Sydney)
 
15:00-15:30
The 'Centrality of Central Asia' Revisited: Ancient Civilization along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor
Speaker: Michael Frachetti (Washington University in St. Louis)
 
15:30-16:00
COFFEE BREAK
 
16:00-18:00
Lecture Hall, Library
SESSION 7: SAF World Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series – Archaeology of Culture Contact and Cultural Diversity
Chairs: Jonathan Mark Kenoyer（University of Wisconsin, Madison）
Qi Dongfang（Peking University）
 
16:00-16:30
Eurasian Art Styles in the First Millennium BC
Speaker: Christ Gosden (Oxford University)
 
16:30-17:00
The Materiality of the Colonial Encounter in South America: Resistance, Alliance and Ethnogenesis
Speaker: Gustavo G Politis (Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires)
 
17:00-17:30
Relevance of Ancient Cultural Heritage to the Modern Society – Aspirations and Future Challenges
Speaker: Vasant Shinde (Deccan College)
 
17:30-18:00
Southern Africa in pre-modern Globalization
Speaker: Innocent Pikirayi (University of Pretoria)
 
18:00-19:30
DINNER
 
19:00-21:00
Xuehai Hall, Lehu New Building
Public Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series
 
The Early Florescence of the Chinese Economy in Light of Archaeological Discoveries
Speaker: Lothar von Falkenhausen (University of California, Los Angeles)
 
Chairs: Tang Jigen（Institute of Archaeology, CASS）
Wang Xiaomeng （Shaanxi Institute of Archaeology）
 
Morning, 16 December 2015
 
08:30-10:00
Lecture Hall, Library
SESSION 8: SAF World Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series – Archaeology of Culture
Contact and Cultural Diversity
Chairs: Fayza Haikal（The American University in Cairo）
Parayil John Cherian（Kerala Council for Historical Research）
 
08:30-09:00
Ceramic Petrography as a Technique for Documenting Cultural Contact and Interaction in Prehistory
Speaker: Stoltman (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
 
09:00-09:30
Castrum Inui: a Sanctuary for Two Ancestral Gods of Different Ethnic Groups
Speaker: Mario Torelli (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei）
 
09:30-10:00
The Silk Road Before the Han dynasty
Speaker: Wang Wei (Institution of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
 
10:00-10:30
COFFEE BREAK
 
10:30-12:00
Lehu New Building
 
SESSION 9: Thematic Presentations and Discussion
Room: Xuehai Hall
Chairs: Ze'ev Herzog（Tel Aviv University）
Rasmi Shoocongdej（Silpakorn University）
 
10:30-10:45
Advances in Research on Ancient Chinese Glass
Speaker: An Jiayao (Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
 
10:45-11:00
The source of ceramic pots in the western reaches of the Altai region in the pre-Qin Period- middle first millennium BC cultural exchange between the Altai region and the Tianshan and Yinshan Mountains.
Speaker: Han Jianye (Beijing Union University)
 
11:00-11:15
Early Nomadic Kingdom Landscapes- New Archaeological Discoveries at the Sandaohaizi site group in Qinghe County, Altai region of Xinjiang Province.
Speaker: Guo Wu (Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
 
11:15-11:30
Spanish Presence at Yucundaa, Oaxaca: A Transition from Indigenous to Colonial Culture
Speaker: Nelly Margarita Robles Garcia (National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico)
 
11:30-11:45
Tianshan Bridge: the Eurasian steppe from the Perspective of Adunqiaolu
Speaker: Cong Dexin (Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
 
11:45-12:00
Staple Questions: When and Why did Maize Farming Spread from Mexico Throughout the Americas?
Speaker: Michael Blake (University of British Columbia)
 
SESSION 10: Thematic Presentations and Discussion
Room: Haina Hall
Chairs: Gao Dalun（Sichuan Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology）
Irina Podgorny（Universidad Nacional de La Plata）
 
10:30-10:45
New Archaeological Discoveries at Tuyugou Grottoes, Turpan- 2013-2015
Speaker: Li Yuqun (Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
 
10:45-11:00
The Beginnings of Copper and Bronze Metallurgy in China- Some recent discoveries and analyses
Speaker: Mei Jianjun (Needham Research Institute)
 
11:00-11:15
Zeng Guo State of the Zhou Dynasty and the History of Chime Bells
Speaker: Fang Qin (Hubei Provincial Museum)
 
11:15-11:30
Archaeological Investigation into the Yaotou Porcelain Kiln
Speaker: Wang Xiaomeng (Shaanxi Institute of Archaeology)
 
11:30-11:45
Persian Influence in Chorasmia: early evidence for Zoroastrian practice
Speaker: Alison Graham Betts (University of Sydney)
 
11:45-12:00
Background of Early State Formation in the Middle Yellow River
Speaker: Dai Xiangming (National Museum of China)
 
SESSION 11: Thematic Presentations and Discussion
Room: Shangshan Hall
Chairs: Janat Ismailova（State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan）
Leonardo Garcia Sanjuan（University of Sevilla）
 
10:30-10:45
Major Archaeological Discoveries by the Inner Mongolia Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology (2013-2015)
Speaker: Chen Yongzhi (Inner Mongolia Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology)
 
10:45-11:00
Archaeological Discoveries and Research of the Zhou Dynasty near Zhengzhou, Henan Province
Speaker: Han Guohe (Zhengzhou University)
 
11:00-11:15
New Developments in Panlongcheng Archaeology
Speaker: Zhang Changping (Wuhan University)
 
11:15-11:30
Symbolism and Manufacturing Technology of Liangzhu Jades in Prehistoric China
Speaker: Tang Chung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
 
11:30-11:45
The Excavation at Xinzhang in Yuanping and its Public Outreach
Speaker: Lang Baoli (Shanxi University)
 
11:45-12:00
Early Writing System with special reference to graffiti marks
Speaker: K. Rajan (Pondicherry e University)
 
SESSION 12: Thematic Presentations and Discussion
Room: Daxue Hall
Chairs: Paul Jeremy Lane（University of Uppsala）
Guo Weimin（Hunan Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology）
 
10:30-10:45
Further Discussion on the Cemetery at Xipo
Speaker: Zhang Xuelian (Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
 
10:45-11:00
Archaeological Research on Northern Dynasty Buddhism at the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Dynasties Site of Yecheng
Speaker: Zhu Yanshi (Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
 
11:00-11:15
New Archaeological Discoveries at the Ancient City of Liangzhu from 2013-2014
Speaker: Liu Bin (Zhejiang Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology)
 
11:15-11:30
Analysis of Harvest and Settlement from the 2013 Excavation of the Wuyang Jiahu Site
Speaker: Zhang Juzhong (University of Science and Technology of China)
 
11:30-11:45
Archaeology Program at Renmin University
Speaker: Wei Jian (Renmin University of China)
 
11:45-12:00
Nanjing University’s Archaeological Work in Russia and Iran
Speaker: Zhang Liangren (Nanjing University)
 
12:00-13:30
LUNCH BREAK
 
Afternoon, 16 December 2015
 
13:30-15:00
Lehu New Building
 
SESSION 13: Thematic Presentations and Discussion
Room: Xuehai Hall
Chairs: Wang Changsui（University of Chinese Academy of Sciences）
R. G. Matson（University of British Columbia）
 
13:30-13:45
Paddy fields in Early Yayoi period in Japan
Speaker: Fuminori Sugaya (Arcahaeological Insutitute of Kshihara, Nara Prefecture)
 
 
13:45-14:00
Between East and West: Northcaucasian tribes at the Great Silk Route during Early Middle Ages
Speaker: Dmitry Korobov (Institute of Archaeology at the Russian Academy of Sciences)
 
14:00-14:15
The emergence of cultural diversity in the Near Eastern Neolithic
Speaker: Arkadiusz Marciniak (University of Poznań)
 
14:15-14:30
Cultural Diversity and Human Universals Viewed from New World Archaeology
Speaker: Saburo Sugiyama (Aichi Prefectural University)
 
14:30-14:45
Stone Bead Trade and Display in the Indus Civilization and adjacent regions: Evidence for Culture Contact and Cultural Diversity, 2600-1900 BC
Speaker: Jonathan Mark Kenoyer (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
 
SESSION 14: Thematic Presentations and Discussion
Room: Haina Hall
Chairs: Zhu Hong（Jilin University）
Augustin Ferdinand Charles Holl（Université de Paris）
 
13:30-13:45
The Russian-German research of the Bronze Age fortified settlements in the Southern Transurals
Speaker: Liudmila Nikolayevna Koriakova (Institute of History and Archaeology of Russian Academy of Sciences
 
13:45-14:00
Excavation in Gabala, Azerbaijan - A Progress Report
Speaker: Seonbok Yi (Seoul National University)
 
14:00-14:15
Steam trains, soldiers and guns in the rock art of northern South Africa: an archaeology of contact
Speaker: Benjamin Wellard Smith (University of Western Australia)
 
14:15-14:30
Megalithic Traditions of the Senegambia: Territoriality and the Production of Ancestors
Speaker: Augustin Ferdinand Charles Holl (Universite Paris)
 
14:30-14:45
Iron Age Cemetery Organization and Memory at Long Long Rak Cave of Highland, Northwest Thailand
Speaker: Rasmi Shoocongdej (Silpakorn University)
 
14:45-15:00
Free Discussion
Speaker: Fayza M.H. Haikal (The American University in Cairo)
 
SESSION 15: Thematic Presentations and Discussion
Room: Shangshan Hall
Chairs: Timothy Alan Kohler（Washington State University）
Song Jian（Shanghai Museum）
 
13:30-13:45
The Roots of the Anthropocene: An Archaeological Approach
Speaker: Tristram R. Kidder (Washington University in St. Louis)
 
13:45-14:00
Advent of Monotheism in Ancient Israel in Light of Archaeology
Speaker: Ze’ev Herzog (Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University)
 
14:00-14:15
Local Variant of the Andronovo Complex in Western Tianshan, Recent Discoveries in Xinjiang, China
Speaker: Peter Weiming Jia (University of Sydney)
 
14:15-14:30
Free Discussion
Speaker: Kaseka Phon (Royal Academy of Cambodia)
 
14:30-14:45
What Xiao Mai (small wheat) is About: the Domestication Syndrome in Reverse?
Speaker: Xinyi Liu (Washington University in St. Louis)
 
14:45-15:00
Zoumaling: Archaeological Survey and Excavation (2014-2015)
Speaker: Yu Xiyun (Wuhan University)
 
15:00-15:30
COFFEE BREAK
 
15:30-16:30
Lecture Hall, Library
CLOSING CEREMONY
 
18:00-19:30
DINNER
 
19:00-21:00
Lecture Hall, Library
Public Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series
 
Archaeology and the Human Condition: The Significance of Prehistory
Speaker: Colin Renfrew (University of Cambridge)
 
Chairs: Wang Wei（Institute of Archaeology, CASS）
Mei Jianjun（Needham Research Institute）
 
17 December 2015
FIELD TRIP AND VISITING MUSEUMS
Visiting the Zhidanyuan Yuan Dynasty Water Gate Site, Shanghai Museum, and Shanghai Natural History Museum
 
18 December 2015
Delegates Depart

（Source: Research Center for World Archaeology, Shanghai Academy）