S16 – Prehistoric Site and Museum Updates: Interpretation, Innovation, and Public Engagement
It has been more than 130 years since the discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus in Trinil, Ngawi, Indonesia—a landmark event that significantly influenced global prehistoric research. As the host of this UISPP Inter-Regional Meeting, Indonesia offers numerous prehistoric sites and museums, spanning from Sumatra to Papua, which highlight diverse approaches to archaeology and museum practice. This session examines […]
S15 – Late Quaternary Southeast Asian Palaeogeography and Paleoecology: Barriers and Connections, Endemism and Exchange
The Late Quaternary is characterized by a series of climatic cycles of alternating interglacial and glacial periods that has shaped the biogeographic histories of plants and animals, including those of our species. In Southeast Asia, these cycles have dramatically influenced the region’s paleogeography, with some islands being connected to the mainland in periods of low […]
S12 – Biomolecular approaches and the history of human settlements in the Southeast Asia Archipelago
The existence of humans in the Islands of Southeast Asian in the past and current living populations proves and presents the richness, diversity and complexity of the history of settlement in this region and its surroundings. This complexity is reflected in their morphotypes, races, ethnicity, and material culture. This is inseparable from the strategic position […]
S11 – The Austronesian Diaspora: A Major Event in Human History
Today, Austronesian languages are spoken by almost 400 million people in Taiwan, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Madagascar. Austronesian was the most widespread language family in the world before the 16th century, and multiple disciplines have examined how it developed and spread across an impressive range over the course of thousands of […]
S10 – Asian Palaeolithic Artefacts in Worldwide Context: Raw Material Circulation, Technological Features and Methodologies
The symposium aims to showcase interdisciplinary and comprehensive studies of Palaeolithic stone tools in Asia, situating them within a global context of understanding the human past. The session is particularly interested in research questions relating to raw material circulation and technological features. The identification of lithic raw material sources (both primary and secondary deposits) offers […]
S09 – Past and future of archaeological collections. Field exploration, movements, preservation (19th-21st c.). History of science and practitioners’ perspectives
The symposium is organised by the UISPP Commission on the History of Archaeology [https://histarcheo.hypotheses.org], in collaboration with the Commission “Southeast Asia: Human Evolution, Dispersals and Adaptations”. It will concentrate on the creation, transmission and movements of prehistoric collections – including natural history specimens, human remains, and artefacts –, from the colonial era to the present […]
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 […]