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Theory and Method sessions

C01 – Status of Prehistoric studies in the twenty first century in India
C03 – Theoretical Trends in South American Archaeology
C04 – Technology and Methodology for Archaeological Practice: Practical applications…
C05 – Re-construction, simulation, reconstitution – How real is our real, how fake is our past?
C26 – Prehistoric Art – Signs, symbols, mith, ideology
C27 – Prehistoric art and ideology
C28 – Symbolic spaces in Prehistoric Art: territories, travels and site location
C45 – Arts and Cave printing among Tribals: An Ethno Archaeological Perspective
C46 – Empowerment of Man through social cultural: Archaeology – Micro study of the…
C47 – Animal representations in Prehistoric Art
C51 – History of Archaeology in the Iberian Peninsula
C52 – Cognitive archaeology as symbolic archaeology
C54 – On Shelter’s Ledge: Histories, Theories, and Methods of Rockshelter Research
C59 – Pressure Flintknapping: Experiment, context of emergence and development. Papers in honour…
C65 – Typology vs Technology
C73 – Aesthetics and Rock Art III Symposium
C74 – Methods of art history tested against prehistory
C75 – “Archeologues sans frontieres". Towards a history of international archeological congresses …
C76 – Antiquarians at the Megaliths
C81 – Spirals and Circular Forms: the most common rock art elements in the world?
C84 – Place Theory in Rock Art Studies
C85 – European Cave Art
C90 – Rock art in the Alps

WS10 – Natural Risks monitoring of Prehistoric Art sites
WS15 – Technology analysis on quartzite exploitation
WS16 – Sharing Taphonomic approaches
WS17 – « GIS – aided survey and other uses for predictive modelling in prehistory”
WS20 – Rock Art Data Base: New Methods and Guidelines in Archiviation and Catalogue
WS22 – Theoretical and Methodological Issues In Evolutionary Archaeology: Toward…
WS24 – Functional studies between East and West: are we finally closer?
WS26 – Babies Reborn: infant/children burials in prehistory
WS28 – Defining a methodological approach to interpret structural evidences
WS34 – Symbolism in Rock Art

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Archaeosciences sessions

C06 – History of Human populations, palaeoecology and ancient DNA
C08 – Bioarchaeology from the Midst of Shells
C09 – Land snails as food: past and present
C11 – Ancient Cultural Landscapes in South Europe - their ecological setting and evolution
C56 – Archaeology of food: recovering evidences of past gastronomic heritage
C60 – Paleopathology: Medical approach of the relations between man and environment in Prehistory
C69 – Luminescence Dating Techniques: a User’s Perspective
C70 – Archaeometry – Characterization Of Pottery. Sampling And Analytical Protocols,…
C71 – The Contribution of Archaeometry to the Understanding of Bell Beakers Phenomenon
C82 – The dating of Pleistocene petroglyphs
C87 – Climatic Change and Social Evolution in the Arid Lands during the Holocene

WS32 – Interdisciplinary Studies In Human Evolution

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Hunter-gatherers sessions

C13 – The earliest inhabitants in Europe
C14 – Modern Humans origins in Eurasia
C15 – Iran Palaeolithic
C16 – Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers concept of territory
C17 – Late Palaeolithic Environments and Cultural Relations around the Adriatic
C20 – Hunters and gatherers of the Platina region continental areas
C29 – Epipalaeolithic Rock Art
C31 – Mountain environments in prehistoric Europe: settlement and mobility…
C33 – The Palaeolithic of the Balkans
C34 – Settlement Systems of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age
C37 – Micoquien of Central Europe and Eastern Europe
C39 – Lower Paleolithic: short and long chronologies, lithic industries linear evolution models,…
C57 – Setting the Record Straight: Toward a Systematic Chronological Understanding…
C58 – Come in …  and find out. Opening a new door into the analysis of hunter-gatherer …
C61 – Animal exploitation by prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies : environment, subsistence…
C62 – Coastal geoarchaeology: the research of shellmounds
C63 – Transitions in the Palaeolithic
C64 – Space And Time: Which Diachronies, Which Synchronies, Which Scales?
C66 – Harvesting the Sea: current perspectives on hunter-gatherer coastal adaptations
C67 – Settlement dynamics and Environment Resources in the Palaeolithic of Southwest France…
C77 – Non-flint Raw Material Use in Prehistory: Old Prejudices and New Direction
C78 – Modern Human dispersals, environments and cultural change in the Late Pleistocene…
C80 – The Pleistocene palaeoart of the world
C83 – Current Issues on Projectile Tips Studies, from the Beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic…
C86 – Middle and Upper Palaeolithic bladelet productions: a diachronic perspective

WS12 – Experimental Archaeology : A source of knowledge for Paleolithic human occupations
WS14 – Human, environment and chronology of the Late Glacial on the North European Plain
WS21 – Use of combustibles and site functions during the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic period:…
WS23 – Raw material supply areas and food supply areas: integrated approach of the behaviours
WS25 – Pluridisciplinary provisional state of the art on the research conducted at cave Chauvet…
WS31 – Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transitional Industries: tecnological, typological…

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Agro-pastoralism sessions

C18 – Mesolithic/Neolithic interactions in the Balkans and in the middle Danube…
C21 – Mounds Construction in the Americas
C22 – Gardeners from South America
C23 – Plant Use and Food Production in the Americas
C24 – Material Mnemonics in European Prehistory
C35 – Neolithic and Chalcolithic architecture in Europe and the near east:…
C38 – European Megaliths and Black Sea hills: possibilities for comparative…
C42 – Space and place construction within stateless lineages societies – the…
C43 – Symbolic figurations in the 4rd and 3rd millennia in the South of the Iberian…
C44 – Ancient Neolithic in the Iberian Peninsula: regional and transregional…
C68 – Monumental Questions: Prehistoric Megaliths, Mounds, and Enclosures
C79 – Archaeological evidences…
C87 – Climatic change and social…
C88 – Rhythms and causalities of anthropisation dynamic in Europe between…

WS02 – Megalithic quarries/quarrying –the sources from which the stones were…
WS29 – The idea of enclosure in Recent Iberian Prehistory

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Early mettalurgy sessions

C25 – The protohistoric iron age of South Asia
C36 – The eastern Mediterranean in the west – Impacts and Influences
C40 – The entities/identities of the Atlantic and Mediterranean Bronze age
C41 – The creation of “significant places” and “landscapes” in the Northwestern…
C53 – A New Dawn for the Dark Age? - Shifting Paradigms in Mediterranean Iron Age…
C72 – Special Spaces, Memory and Identity in the European Bronze Age
C89 – Statue-menhir and anthropomorphic stelae in Europe, Asia and Mediterranean Sea
C91 – Transition from the Late Hallstatt to the Early La Tène Period

WS04 – Men and volcanoes: to live, survive and relive
WS11 – Lithic technology in metal using societies

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Archaeology and Society sessions

C12 – Symbolic Wars
C32 – Contemporary issues in historical archaeology
C48 – Postcolonialism and Archaeology:Studies
C55 – Romanization and Indigenous societies: rhythms, ruptures and continuities

WS01 – Power and Archaeology
WS05 – Roman occupation of Iron Age Iberian Southwest settlements
WS06 – Quality management of prehistoric sites: from research to dissemination
WS07 – Public Archaeology: participation of public power in managing memory…
WS19 – Rock Art and Museum
WS27 – Global rock art protection
WS33 – Preservation and Protection of Indigenous Cultural Landscapes

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