S - 1A 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
S - 1B Reconciling conventional chronologies with scientific dating / Harmonisation des chronologies conventionnelles avec la datation scientifique
Organizers: Dirk Brandherm, Wolfgang David
S - 1C Trends, issues and perspectives of Artificial Intelligence systems in archaeological research
Organizers:Alessandro Di Ludovico, Michał Jakubczak
S - 1D Beyond archaeology alone: The indispensable role of geoarchaeology in understanding human–environment dynamics through time
Organizers: Opeyemi Adewumi, Maurizio Zambaldi, Eusebio Jesús Medina Luque
S - 1E Cave taphonomy: Beyond human subsistence strategies
Organizers: Mario Mata-González, Maria Boada, Javier Villalobos, Clara Mielgo, Alicia Sanz-Royo
S - 1F Multi-method, multi-proxy: promoting multidisciplinary approaches in pyroarcheology
Organizers: Ségolène Vandevelde, Mareike Stahlschmidt, Christopher Miller
S - 1G 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
S - 1H Museums, exhibitions, and collections-based research: Curatorial approaches to prehistoric and protohistoric heritage
Organizers: Moumita Dhar, Tariq Latif Tamboli
S - 1I Novice and early career researchers in prehistory & protohistoric archaeology
Organizers: Elanthendral S R, Deepak Pal, Arjun R
S - 1J Proposal for a "Charter of Preventive Archaeology"
Organizers: Paolo Corti, Paola A. E. Bianchi, Ashley A. Dumas
S - 1K Reconstructing landscape meaning: Collaborative heritage education and community engagement as catalysts for social transformation
Organizers: Yulia Sofiani, Oka Agus Kurniawan Shavab
S - 2A Digging into the archives: new perspectives on documentary legacies in the history of archaeology
Organizers: The Members of the UISPP Commission “History of Archaeology": Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Ana Cristina Martins, Fedra A. Pizzato, Jorge del Reguero
S - 2B Pioneers, power, and prehistory: Colonial-era scholarship in prehistoric archaeology
Organizers: K.V.J. Koshalee, Chandima Bogahawatta, Tharindu Pieris
S - 2C 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
S - 2D Historiographie de l'archéozoologie en Europe
Organizers: Djillali Hadjouis, Louis Chaix
S - 2E Reproducing archaeological objects: historical, material and empirical approaches
Organizers: The Members of the UISPP Commission “History of Archaeology": Delphine Delamare, Raphaëlle Rannou
S - 3A Crossing frontiers in biological anthropology: New discoveries, technologies, and perspectives on human evolution
Organizers: Carlos Lorenzo, Julie Arnaud, Dominique Grimaud-Hervé, Antonio Profico
S - 3B 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
S - 3C Forensic archaeology in Europe – past, present, future
Organizers: Dawid Kobiałka, Michał Pawleta, Kamil Karski
S - 4A Beyond boundaries: Transdisciplinary pathways in exploring Late Quaternary human-environmental interaction
Organizers: Sascha Krüger, Morten Fischer Mortensen, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka
S - 4B Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions: New evidences and emerging perspectives
Organizers:Anil Devara, Vijay Sathe
S - 4C Integrating multidisciplinary approaches to reconstruct human-environment relationships in the Pleistocene past
Organizers: Leire Torres-Iglesias, Emilie Berlioz, Frido Welker, Anna Wagner
S - 4D 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
S - 4E Prey and hunters: Investigating subsistence strategies from the Pleistocene to the Holocene
Organizers: Ursula Thun Hohenstein, Ivana Fiore
S - 5A The impact of anthropisation on marine and coastal environments in the past
Organizers: María Coto-Sarmiento, Debora Zurro
S - 5B Ascending Tides: The logistics, materiality, and social integration of marine resources in inland prehistory
Organizers: Oka Agus Kurniawan Shavab, Yulia Sofiani
S - 5C The Waterlogged Stone Age Sites of Central and Northern Europe: Progress and Challenges of Research
S - 6A High altitudes: the archaeology of human habitation in mountain landscapes
Organizers: Sabine Reinhold, Wieke de Neef
S - 6B New approaches and methodologies in prehistoric mountain archaeology
Organizers: Wieke de Neef, Francesco Carrer
S - 7A Plants, humans and animal interactions: Global perspectives from Pleistocene to the Holocene
Organizer: Vasant Kumar Swarnkar
S - 7B 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
S - 8A Archaeometry of prehistoric and protohistoric stone, metal, ceramics and glass
Organizers: Béla Török, Michał Krueger, Maria Pia Riccardi
S - 8B Unveiling the unseen: Advanced imaging techniques for prehistoric material culture and contexts
Organizers: Laura Longo, Lucia Mancini, Martina Lázničková-Galetová, Eva Zikmundova, Christoph Heinzl
S - 8C 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
S - 9A 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
S - 9B 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
S - 9C 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
S - 10A Protohistory rediscovered: Bead production, technology and use
Organizers: Tariq Latif Tamboli, Moumita Dhar
S - 10B Amber in ancient Europe and the Mediterranean zone
Organizers: Janusz Czebreszuk, Konstantinos Nikolentzos, Katarina Kostanti, Mateusz Jaeger, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Jędrzej Proch
S - 10C Investigating Amber Artefacts Life Cycles: From Traditional to Multi-Proxy Research Approaches
S - 11A Prehistoric art: current questions, research challenges and new methods
Organizers: Diego Garate, Aitor Ruiz-Redondo
S - 11B First marks, first minds: Early rock art and the emergence of symbolic thought
Organizers: Sara Garcês, Hipólito Collado, Hugo Gomes, Virginia Lattao
S - 11C On the trails of rock art: landscape, mobility, visuality, and cosmologies in open-air rock art contexts
Organizers: Cecilia Dal Zovo, Chris Gosden
S - 11D The invisible in the visible: identifying potency and power in rock art imagery
Organizers: Andrzej Rozwadowski, David Witelson
S - 11E Archaeology, art and spirituality during prehistory and protohistory
Organizers: Fernando Coimbra, Dragos Gheorghiu, Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak
S - 11F Objects, arts, icons, and ideas: archaeological pathways of symbolic expression across cultures
Organizers: Rose Solangaarachchi, Vinay Kumar, Sulekha Banarjee, Kasun S. Jayasuriya
S - 11G Obsessive patterns: Visual recurrence and symbolic identity in prehistoric imagery
Organizers: Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak, Sara Garcês, Noelia Priego Cecilla
S - 11H Foraging figures to fish and fjords: The prehistoric engraved and painted rock art of Northern Europe
Organizers: George Nash, Sara Garcês, Dionysios Danelatos
S - 11I Depicted vs consumed: When rock art shows species absent from the faunal record
Organizers: Paweł Lech Polkowski, Sebastián Francisco, Jakob Bro-Jorgensen
S - 11J An universal symbol: hand representations in world rock art
Organizers: Hipólito Collado, Sara Garcês, Orkun Hamza Kayci, Hale Tümer, José Julio García Arranz
S - 11K Deer and Death across the Euro-Atlantic façade during the Holocene: towards ArtLantic landscapes
Organizers: Sofia Figueiredo-Persson, Joana Valdez-Tullett, Trond Lødøen
S - 12A 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
S - 12B Chronostratigraphic frameworks and data disparity: Interdisciplinary approaches to Lower Paleolithic interpretation
Organizers: The Members of the UISPP Commission "Lower Palaeolithic"
S - 12C Approaches to Early and Middle Stone Age/Palaeolithic open-air contexts in arid landscapes
Organizers: Emanuele Cancellieri, Osama Samawi, Emily Hallinan
S - 13A Technology, subsistence, and spatial dynamics in Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age territories
Organizers: Gema Chacón, Amy Elizabeth Clark, Cyrielle Mathias
S - 13B Rethinking lithic taxonomy and technological variability in the Middle Palaeolithic: Toward Eurasian shared analytical frameworks
Organizers: Francesca Romagnoli, Davide Delpiano, Małgorzata Kot, Marcel Weiß
S - 13C 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
S - 14A 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
S - 14B At the crossroads of worlds. Magdalénien and Epigravettian in Central and Eastern Europe
Organizers: Marta Połtowicz-Bobak, Zdeňka Nerudovà, Dariusz Bobak
S - 14C 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
S - 14D Upper Palaeolithic subsistence strategies
Organizers:Jarosław Wilczyński, György Lengyel
S - 15A Adapting to diversity: Holocene hunter-gatherers in varied world landscapes
Organizers: Federica Fontana, Jacek Kabaciński, Graeme Warren
S - 15B 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
S - 16A 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
S - 16B Holocene populations, networks and adaptations to new environments
Organizers: Olivier Lemercier, Albert Hafner
S - 17A Archaeology of Earthworks across Afro-Eurasian Prehistory and Protohistory
Organizers: Arjun Rao, Vishi Upadhyay
S - 17B Unusual features in prehistoric and protohistoric fortifications
Organizers: Florian Mauthner, Luis Berrocal Rangel
S - 17C Marvels in Stone: Megalithic burials, settlement patterns, and environmental adaptation
Organizers: Vinay Kumar, Anura Manatunga, S B Ota, Kasun S. Jayasuriya, Sakshi Ghosh
S - 17D To be or not to be: Considering the origins of photo-urbanism in prehistoric Europe
Organizers: Cherie Edwards, James O'Driscoll, Dirk Brandherm
S - 18A The mounted warrior and his companions (horse, dog) in Eurasian tombs (4th–1st millennia BC)
S - 18B 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
S - 18C Hoards! A new perspective: wear, landscape, provenance analysis
Organizers: Marcin Maciejewski, Dawid Sych, Kamil Nowak
S - 19A Metallurgical territories
Organizers: Céline Tomczyk, Grzegorz Żabiński
S - 19B Metal supply networks in prehistory and protohistory / Réseaux d’approvisionnement en métaux en préhistoire et protohistoire
Organizers: Dirk Brandherm, Carlo Bottaini, Heide Wrobel Nørgaard
S - 19C 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
S - 20A The Pre-Roman Iron Age in Central Europe: New research perspectives
Organizers: Andrzej Michałowski, Przemysław Niedzielski, Jarosław Jasiewicz
S - 20B Ancient coin finds and coin circulation in Barbaricum
Organizers: Katarzyna Balbuza
S - 21A 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"
S - 21B 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
S - 21C New directions in African archaeobotany: Building inter- and intra-disciplinary collaborations
Organizers: Céline Kerfant, Sara Scaglia, Giulio Roberto Bartuli, Paidamoyo Chingono, Thamary Mukuya
S - 22A Surviving change: human journey through MIS 3 in the evolving landscapes between Central Asia and the Levant
Organizers: Ana Abrunhosa, Angelica Fiorillo, Lorenzo Monaco
S - 22B Palaeolithic adaptations to Asian mountain environments
Organizers: Małgorzata Kot, Yossi Zainder, Li Hao, Iván Rey-Rodríguez, Greta Brancaleoni
S - 22C Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transitions: Asian perspectives
Organizers: Anil Devara, Stefano Benazzi, Francesco Berna, Mohd Zakir Khan, Omry Barzilai
S - 22D Networking in Asian Prehistory
Organizers: Commission "Southeast Asia: Human Evolution, Dispersals and Adaptations'':Harry Widianto, Shaiful Shahidan
S - 23A The prehistory of visual arts, music, and language
Organizers: Piotr Podlipniak, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Larissa Mendoza Straffon, Svetlana Kuleshova
S - 23B Rhythm and ritual: New approaches to archaeoacoustics
Organizers: George Harold Nash, Fernando Coimbra, Dragos Gheorghiu, Piotr Podlipniak, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka
S - 24A Archaeoastronomy as a scientific tool for prehistoric and protohistoric research: Linking earth, sky, and cultural symbolism
Organizer: Chrysi Meramveliotaki
S - 24B From tools to thoughts: Comparative approaches to technological and cultural behaviour
Organizers: Paula García-Medrano, Saray Pascual-Moliner
S - 24C Miniature and miniaturisation. Artefactual, technical and symbolic issues in worked material
used as tools
Organizers: Eva David, Catherine Schwab, Manuel Valentin
S - 24D The archaeology of play: Unearthing the role of games in ancient community
Organizers: Ananya Chakraborty, Abhijit S. Ambekar
S - 25A The Everyday, the Overlooked, the Fringe: New Perspectives on Interaction in the Precolonial and Early Colonial Americas
Organizers: Sarah Joy Martini, Miłosz Giersz, Patrycja Prządka-Giersz, Jan Szymański