Bulletin of the Shanghai Archaeology Forum , Volume I

This is a collection of all speeches and lectures delivered at the inaugural Shanghai Archaeology Forum held from the 23rd to 26th of August 2013, including congratulatory addresses, SAF selection Program presentations, as well as talks at the World Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series and Public Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series

1. Introduction

(1) About

(2) Mission

(3) Organization

(4) Forum Programs

(5) Publications

2. Addresses at the Opeining Ceremony

(1) Congratulatory Address by Wang Weiguang, President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

(2) Congratulatory Address by Yang Xiong, Mayor of Shanghai

(3) Congratulatory Address by Tong Mingkang, Deputy Director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage

(4) Congratulatory Address by Lord Colin Renfrew from the University of Cambridge

(5) Congratulatory Address by Wang Wei, Director of the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

3. Selection Program

(1) Early Ceremonial Constructions at Ceibal, Guatemala, and the Origins of Lowland Maya Civilization

(2) Kodumanal: An Early Historic Industrial-cum-Trade Centre of South India

(3) Sacral Place of the First Metallurgists of Urals

(4) In Search of the Pyramid Settlements: Archaeology of Everyday Life at Giza

(5) Searching for a Lost Civilization: New Findings from the Liangzhu Archaic City

(6) Archaeological Research on the Ancient Temples of the Upper Amazon in Peru

(7) Gobekli Tepe (Southeastern Turkey)-Megalithic Sanctuaries and the "Neolithic Revolution"

(8) Worldview and Social Materialized at Monuments in Teotihuacan, Mexico

(9) Shimao: A Stone-Walled Settlement of the 2nd Millennium BC in Northern China

(10) Rulers of Mycenaean Laconia: New Insights from Excavations at the Palatial Settlement of Ayios Vasileios near Sparta

(11) Discovery of Archaic Humans from the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition of Southwest China

(12) Patterned Variation at the Beginnings of Complex Society

(13) The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire

(14) The History of Urbanism at Angkor-A giant Low-Density City

(15) Ancient Kura 2010-2012: Human-Environment Interaction in Neolithic Southern Caucasia

(16) The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor

(17) The Village Ecodynamics Project: Pueblo Societies through Time in the US Southwest

(18) Archaeological Investigation at the Temples of the Sun and Moon, Trujilo, Peru

(19) In Search of the Origins of Chinee Civilization: A Long-Term Transdisciplinary Program

4. World Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series

(1) The Art of Urbanism: Recent Comparative Studies of the Ideological and Environmental Foundations of Highland and Lowland Mesoamerican Cities and States

(2) Archaeology for Our Times

(3) The Comparative Archaeology of Ancient Civilizations

(4) The Indus Civilization (2600-1900 BC): Early Urbanism in South Asia and Its Legacy

(5) The Origins of Ritual and Monumentality in Prehistory: A Comparative Approach

(6) The Ritualized Economy and the Origins of Complex Society: An Archaeological Perspective

(7) The Formation of Early Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective

5. Public Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series

(1) Managing Monte Alban-A world Heritage Site in Mexico

(2) Lost Cities and Buried Civilizaitons: Why are They Important?

(3) Cultural Heritage as a Bridge across Continents

6. Postface