S08 – Human history heritage and communities
Heritage is a process of selection of remains from past societies, operated by contemporary societies for different purposes. Such selectin serves different purposes: to self-represent identitarian narratives, to allow for keeping a sense of continuity when main drivers of societies change and to register past societies transformations. Being a selection, it depends on the criteria […]
S07 – Nurturing Connections: Water, Forests, and Societal Resilience
Welcome to the thematic symposium within the framework of the UISPP inter-congress conference “Asian Prehistory Today: Bridging Science, Heritage and Development.” This symposium, guided by the scientific committee’s theme of “Facing resources challenges through time: Water and Forests,” aims to explore the intricate relationships between water systems, forests, humans and societal resilience across time and […]
S06 – Tourism, Community Development, and Prehistoric Heritage: Challenges for Sustainability
This meeting in UISPP inter-congress conference “Asian Prehistory Today: Bridging Science, Heritage and Development”, will explore the complex relationship between tourism, community development, and the preservation of prehistoric heritage, focusing on sustainability. The following main topics will be addressed: The meeting aims to promote an interdisciplinary dialogue among archaeologists, heritage managers, tourism professionals, and community […]
S04 – Rock Art and Symbolic Behaviors
Rock art studies today make use of a wide range of disciplines that usually work on a multi- and interdisciplinary basis. From the application of methodologies in two or three dimensions, chemical and physical analyses, dating, DNA studies, interpretation, archaeological excavation, contextualisation in ancestral landscapes, symbolic behaviour, conservation problems and a wide range of computer […]
S03 – Dating Asian Quaternary and Prehistoric records: challenges, materials, methods
The Asian continent is an unique land for human evolution as it is a combination of continental landmasses and island territories. Numerous human remains and artifacts preserved during the past over 2 million years, provide valuable archives for reconstructing the evolution history of human kind. It holds great importance to establish a robust chronostratigraphic framework […]
S02 – Homo sapiens in East and Southeast Asia
Homo sapiens have occupied East and Southeast Asia during the Late Pleistocene, and transitioned from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to farming practices during the Holocene. This dispersal into East and Southeast Asia is crucial for understanding the genetic diversity and cultural evolution of populations in these regions. Before that, the regions were already occupied by early […]
S01 – The hominins’ trek to the islands: in memoriam T. Jacob and Y. Coppens
This meeting is a tribute to the paleoanthropologists Teuku Jacob and Yves Coppens whose lives were dedicated to answer the problem related to the origin and evolution of the hominins of Southeast Asia and Africa. The communications presented here aim to provide information concerning the exit of the first hominins from Africa around 2.0 mya […]