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1. Unveiling the unseen: Advanced imaging techniques for prehistoric material culture and contexts
Organizers: Laura Longo, Lucia Mancini, Martina Lázničková-Galetová, Eva Zikmundova, Christoph Heinzl
 

2. Miniature and miniaturisation. Artefactual, technical and symbolic issues in worked material used as tools
Organizers: Eva David, Catherine Schwab, Manuel Valentin
 

3. Historiographie de l'archéozoologie en Europe
Organizers: Djillali Hadjouis, Louis Chaix
 

4. Crossing frontiers in biological anthropology: New discoveries, technologies, and perspectives on human evolution
Organizers: Carlos Lorenzo, Julie Arnaud, Dominique Grimaud-Hervé, Antonio Profico
 

5. The knight and his companions (horse, dog) in Eurasian tombs (4th -1st millennia BC)
Organizers: Valeriu Sîrbu, Cristian Schuster
 

6. Trends, issues and perspectives of Artificial Intelligence systems in archaeological research
Organizers:Alessandro Di Ludovico, Michał Jakubczak
 

7. Prehistoric research, landscapes and communities
Organizer: Luiz Oosterbeek
 

8. Pioneers, power, and prehistory: Colonial-era scholarship in prehistoric archaeology
Organizers: K.V.J. Koshalee, Chandima Bogahawatta, Tharindu Pieris
 

9. At the crossroads of worlds. Magdalénien and Epigravettian in Central and Eastern Europe
Organizers: Marta Połtowicz-Bobak, Zdeňka Nerudovà, Dariusz Bobak
 

10. Prehistoric art: current questions, research challenges and new methods
Organizers: Diego Garate, Aitor Ruiz-Redondo
 

11. North African deep histories (c. 15,000–3000 BP): People, environment, and adaptation session in honour of Ginette Aumassip and David Lubell
Organizers: The Members of the UISPP Commission on "Art and Civilizations in the Sahara during Prehistoric Times"
 

12. Digging into the archives: new perspectives on documentary legacies in the history of archaeology
Organizers:Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Ana Cristina Martins, Fedra A. Pizzato, Jorge del Reguero
 

13. Reproducing archaeological objects: historical, material and empirical approaches
Organizers: Delphine Delamare, Raphaëlle Rannou
 

14. Upper Palaeolithic subsistence strategies
Organizers:Jarosław Wilczyński, György Lengyel
 

15. Approaches to Early and Middle Stone Age/Palaeolithic open-air contexts in arid landscapes
Organizers: Emanuele Cancellieri, Osama Samawi, Emily Hallinan
 

16. Chronostratigraphic frameworks and data disparity: Interdisciplinary approaches to Lower Paleolithic interpretation
Organizers: The Members of the UISPP Commission "Lower Palaeolithic"
 

17. Protecting deep-time heritage in the Sahara, Nile Valley, and Mediterranean Africa: Sustainable management, capacity building, and cultural diplomacy​
Organizers:: Giulio Lucarini, Lotfi Belhouchet, Jacek Kabacińksi, Alice Leplongeon, Giuseppina Mutri, Latifa Sari
 

18. The invisible in the visible: identifying potency and power in rock art imagery
Organizers: Andrzej Rozwadowski, David Witelson
 

19. New approaches and methodologies in prehistoric mountain archaeology​
Organizers: Wieke de Neef, Francesco Carrer
 

20. Marvels in Stone: Megalithic burials, settlement patterns, and environmental adaptation
Organizers: Vinay Kumar, Anura Manatunga, S B Ota, Kasun S. Jayasuriya, Sakshi Ghosh
 

21. Beyond archaeology alone: The indispensable role of geoarchaeology in understanding human–environment dynamics through time
Organizers: Opeyemi Adewumi, Maurizio Zambaldi, Eusebio Jesús Medina Luque
 

22. Unusual features in prehistoric and protohistoric fortifications
Organizers: Florian Mauthner, Luis Berrocal Rangel
 

23. Cave taphonomy: Beyond human subsistence strategies
Organizers: Mario Mata-González, Maria Boada, Javier Villalobos, Clara Mielgo, Alicia Sanz-Royo
 

24. Archaeometry of prehistoric and protohistoric stone, metal, ceramics and glass
Organizers: Béla Török, Michał Krueger, Maria Pia Riccardi
 

25. Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transitions: Asian perspectives
Organizers: Anil Devara, Stefano Benazzi, Francesco Berna, Mohd Zakir Khan, Omry Barzilai
 

26. Revisiting the connections between southern Scandinavia and the Baltic at the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age (1100-500 BC)
Organizers: Serena Sabatini, Jutta Kneisel, Robert Staniuk, Kristian Kristiansen
 

27. From tools to thoughts: Comparative approaches to technological and cultural behaviour
Organizers: Paula García-Medrano, Saray Pascual-Moliner
 

28. Interdisciplinary approaches in studying the human past in Eastern Europe and beyond
Organizers: Lehti Saag, Monika Karmin, Eve Rannamäe, Kaarel Sikk, Anneli Poska, Miina Norvik
 

29. Archaeoastronomy as a scientific tool for prehistoric and protohistoric research: Linking earth, sky, and cultural symbolism
Organizer: Chrysi Meramveliotaki
 

30. Hoards! A new perspective: wear, landscape, provenance analysis
Organizers: Marcin Maciejewski, Dawid Sych, Kamil Nowak
 

31. Amber in ancient Europe and the Mediterranean zone
Organizers: Janusz Czebreszuk, Konstantinos Nikolentzos, Katarina Kostanti, Mateusz Jaeger, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Jędrzej Proch
 

32. Networking in Asian Prehistory
Organizers: Commission "Southeast Asia: Human Evolution, Dispersals and Adaptations'':Harry Widianto, Shaiful Shahidan
 

33. Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions: New evidences and emerging perspectives
Organizers:Anil Devara, Vijay Sathe
 

34. Palaeolithic adaptations to Asian mountain environments
Organizers: Małgorzata Kot, Yossi Zainder, Li Hao, Iván Rey-Rodríguez, Greta Brancaleoni  


35. Surviving change: human journey through MIS 3 in the evolving landscapes between Central Asia and the Levant
Organizers: Ana Abrunhosa, Angelica Fiorillo, Lorenzo Monaco


36. Our Masters – research on the Late Paleolithic in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century
Organizers: Jan M. Burdukiewicz, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka


37. Metallurgical territories
Organizers: Céline Tomczyk, Grzegorz Żabiński 


38. Forensic archaeology in Europe – past, present, future
Organizers: Dawid Kobiałka, Michał Pawleta, Kamil Karski


39. The prehistory of visual arts, music, and language
Organizers: Piotr Podlipniak, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Larissa Mendoza Straffon, Svetlana Kuleshova


40. Archaeobotanical and biomolecular research on medicinal and psychoactive plants and fungi in the prehistory and history of Europe
Organizers: Dragana Filipović, Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo, Cătălin Alexandru Lazăr, Enrico Greco, Ahmed M. Abdel-Azeem


41. Adapting to diversity: Holocene hunter-gatherers in varied world landscapes
Organizers: Federica Fontana, Jacek Kabaciński, Graeme Warren


42. Objects, arts, icons, and ideas: archaeological pathways of symbolic expression across cultures
Organizers: Rose Bandujeewa, Vinay Kumar, Sulekha Banarjee, Kasun S. Jayasuriya


43. Technologies and traditions embedded in lithics: current research and perspectives on late palaeolithic and early mesolithic Northern–Central Europe
Organizers: Katarzyna Pyżewicz, Tomas Rimkus, Mārcis Kalniņš, Michał Przeździecki, Witold Grużdź


44. Reconstructing seasonal knowledge within the Javanese Pranatamangsa System through an archaeological approach of the Watu Dakon Site in East Java
Organizers: Fachri Zulfikar, Laely Amriyati


45. High altitudes: the archaeology of human habitation in mountain landscapes
Organizers: Sabine Reinhold, Wieke de Neef


46. Beyond microscopy: Advanced surface analysis and imaging Integration in functional studies of archaeological artefacts
Organizers: UISPP Commission ‘Functional Studies of Prehistoric Artefacts and their Socio-Economic Significance’: Giusi Sorrentino, Alfred Pawlik, Laura Longo, Belén Marquez, Andreu Ollé, Natalia Skakun, Vera Terekhina


47. Before, during and after the Big Dry—Exploring the Gravettian and Epigravettian occupation of Europe
Organizers: Philip R. Nigst, Marjolein D. Bosch, Soňia Boriová, Martin Novák, Laëtitia Demay, Samuel Kasemann


48. Paleo-forensics in human remains examinations: Investigating the crimes of the past
Organizers: Dorota Lorkiewicz-Muszyńska, Julia Sobol, Paulina Przepiórka, Marta Diepenbroek, Monica Abreu-Głowacka


49. Foraging figures to fish and fjords: The prehistoric engraved and painted rock art of Northern Europe
Organizers: George Nash, Sara Garcês, Dionysios Danelatos


50. Obsessive patterns: Visual recurrence and symbolic identity in prehistoric imagery
Organizers: Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak, Sara Garcês, Noelia Priego Cecilla


51. Integrating multidisciplinary approaches to reconstruct human-environment relationships in the Pleistocene past
Organizers: Leire Torres-Iglesias, Emilie Berlioz, Frido Welker, Anna Wagner


52. First marks, first minds: Early rock art and the emergence of symbolic thought
Organizers: Sara Garcês, Hipólito Collado, Hugo Gomes, Virginia Lattao


53. Depicted vs consumed: When rock art shows species absent from the faunal record
Organizers: Paweł Lech Polkowski, Sebastián Francisco, Jakob Bro-Jorgensen


54. Reconstructing landscape meaning: Collaborative heritage education and community engagement as catalysts for social transformation
Organizers: Yulia Sofiani, Oka Agus Kurniawan Shavab


55. New directions in African archaeobotany: Building inter- and intra-disciplinary collaborations
Organizers: Céline Kerfant, Sara Scaglia, Giulio Roberto Bartuli, Paidamoyo Chingono, Thamary Mukuya


56. Ascending Tides: The logistics, materiality, and social integration of marine resources in inland prehistory
Organizers: Oka Agus Kurniawan Shavab, Yulia Sofiani


57. The Lower Palaeolithic of Central Europe and neighboring regions: State of the art 30 years after the “Short Chronology”
Organizers: Andrzej Wiśniewski, Marcel Weiss, Olaf Jöris


58. Rhythm and ritual: New approaches to archaeoacoustics
Organizers: George Harold Nash, Fernando Coimbra, Dragos Gheorghiu, Piotr Podlipniak, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka


59. Archaeology, art and spirituality during prehistory and protohistory
Organizers: Fernando Coimbra, Dragos Gheorghiu, Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak


60. Multi-method, multi-proxy: promoting multidisciplinary approaches in pyroarcheology
Organizers: Ségolène Vandevelde, Mareike Stahlschmidt, Christopher Miller


61. The diversity of the lithic technologies and behavioral adaptations across Eurasia over the last one million years
Organizers: Shixia Yang, Andreu Ollé, Paula García-Medrano, Jian-Ping Yue


62. Investigating amber artefacts life cycles: From traditional to multi-proxy research approaches
Organizers: Orlando Cerasuolo, Miglė Urbonaitė-Ubė


63. Holocene populations, networks and adaptations to new environments
Organizers: Olivier Lemercier, Albert Hafner


64. The archaeology of play: Unearthing the role of games in ancient community
Organizers: Ananya Chakraborty, Abhijit S. Ambekar


65. The impact of anthropisation on marine and coastal environments in the past
Organizers: María Coto-Sarmiento, Debora Zurro


66. On the trails of rock art: landscape, mobility, visuality, and cosmologies in open-air rock art contexts
Organizers: Cecilia Dal Zovo, Chris Gosden


67. Rethinking lithic taxonomy and technological variability in the Middle Palaeolithic: Toward Eurasian shared analytical frameworks
Organizers: Francesca Romagnoli, Davide Delpiano, Małgorzata Kot, Marcel Weiß


68. Death-Ritual-Burial. Diversity of funeral rites in Central Europe during the Bronze and Iron Ages – New research perspectives
Organizers: Judyta Rodzińska-Nowak, Joanna Zagórska-Telega, Anna Gawlik, Agata Sztyber


69. An universal symbol: hand representations in world rock art
Organizers: Hipólito Collado, Sara Garcês, Orkun Hamza Kayci, Hale Tümer, José Julio García Arranz


70. Novice and early career researchers in prehistory & protohistoric archaeology
Organizers: Elanthendral S R, Deepak Pal, Arjun R


71. Holocene populations, networks and adaptations to new environments
Organizers: Olivier Lemercier, Albert Hafner


72. Deer and Death across the Euro-Atlantic façade during the Holocene: towards ArtLantic landscapes
Organizers: Sofia Figueiredo-Persson, Joana Valdez-Tullett, Trond Lødøen


73. Digging deeper: Uncovering the people behind prehistoric flint and other georesource mining
Organizers: The Members of the UISPP Commission “Flint Mining in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Times”: Jean-Philippe Collin, Dagmara H. Werra, Francoise Bostyn, Jon Bączkowski, Joep Orbons


74. The Stone Age waterlogged sites of Central and Northern Europe: progress and challenges of research
Organizers: Jacek Kabacinski, Thomas Terberger, Daniel Groß, Henny Piezonka


75. Moving on: updated scales, concepts and approaches to mobility in the Late Pleistocene
Organizers: Philip R. Nigst, Timothy Canessa, William Davies, Viola C. Schmid, Paloma de la Peña, Alice Leplongeon


76. Museums, exhibitions, and collections-based research: Curatorial approaches to prehistoric and protohistoric heritage
Organizers: Moumita Dhar, Tariq Latif Tamboli 


77. Metal supply networks in prehistory and protohistory / Réseaux d’approvisionnement en métaux en préhistoire et protohistoire
Organizers: Dirk Brandherm, Carlo Bottaini, Heide Wrobel Nørgaard 


78. Lost in translation: How differences in terminology shape our view of cultural evolution in the Paleolithic of Eurasia 
Organizers: Malgorzata Kot, Peiqi Zhang, Masami Izuho, Nicolas Zwyns


79. Reconciling conventional chronologies with scientific dating / Harmonisation des chronologies conventionnelles avec la datation scientifique
Organizers: Dirk Brandherm, Wolfgang David


80. Out-of-Place? Early Neolithic Farming Communities in the European Alps
Organizers: Caroline Posch, Marcel Cornelissen, Joachim Pechtl, Gerald Raab, Konstantina Saliari, Michaela Schauer, Karina Grömer


81. Plants, humans and animal interactions: Global perspectives from Pleistocene to the Holocene 
Organizer: Vasant Kumar Swarnkar


82. Investigating amber artefacts life cycles: From traditional to multi-proxy research approaches
Organizers: Orlando Cerasuolo, Miglė Urbonaitė-Ubė, Ivana Angelini


83. Protohistory rediscovered: Bead production, technology and use 
Organizers:  Tariq Latif Tamboli,  Moumita Dhar


84. To be or not to be: Considering the origins of photo-urbanism in prehistoric Europe
Organizers: Cherie Edwards, James O'Driscoll, Dirk Brandherm


85. Friendly or hostile? How long did they last? Relations between the last Mesolithic hunters and the first Neolithic farmers
Organizers: Dominik Kacper Płaza, Andreas Kotula


86. Technology, subsistence, and spatial dynamics in Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age territories
Organizers: Gema Chacón, Amy Elizabeth Clark, Cyrielle Mathias


87. Prey and hunters: Investigating subsistence strategies from the Pleistocene to the Holocene
Organizers: Ursula Thun Hohenstein, Ivana Fiore


88. Beyond boundaries: Transdisciplinary pathways in exploring Late Quaternary human-environmental interaction
Organizers: Sascha Krüger, Morten Fischer Mortensen, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka


89. The Pre-Roman Iron Age in Central Europe: New research perspectives
Organizers: Andrzej Michałowski, Przemysław Niedzielski, Jarosław Jasiewicz


90. Proposal for a "Charter of Preventive Archaeology"
Organizers: Paolo Corti, Paola A. E. Bianchi, Ashley A. Dumas


91. The Early Upper Palaeolithic (EUP) in the Iberian Peninsula/ Le Paléolithique supérieur initial (EUP) à la Péninsule Ibérique
​Organizers: Alvaro Arrizabalaga, R. Domingo, M. Cortés, J.M. Fullola, J. Haws, X. Mangado, N. Zwyns


92. Prehistoric research Landscapes and Communities and the role of Knowledge
Organizers: Members of UISPP Commission Archaeological Heritage Policies and Management Structures: Luiz Oosterbeek, Maurizio Quagliuolo, Davide Delfino, Silvia Florindi, Joaquim Soler


93. Ancient coin finds and coin circulation in Barbaricum
Organizers: Katarzyna Balbuza