UISPP Thematic Sessions

 

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
OrganizersK.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 miniaturisationArtefactualtechnical 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