PANELS Session 1: Prehistoric Human-Environment Interaction on the Tibetan Plateau Organizers: Fahu CHEN, Guanghui DONG, Jade D’ALPOIM GUEDES No. Name Institution Presentation School of Social Sciences, Mark Modeling Forager Mobility on the Tibetan 1 Humanities, and Arts, University ALDENDERFER Plateau of California, Merced Qingpeng Kunming Institute of Zoology, Demic Diffusion of the Southward Spread of KONG Chinese Academy of Sciences Millet Agriculture from Northern China: 2 Kunming Institute of Zoology, Evidence from Genetic and Archaeological Yuchun LI Chinese Academy of Sciences Studies Moving Agriculture onto the Roof of the Jade University of California, San World: What Computational Modeling Tells 3 D’ALPOIM Diego us About Forager/Farmer Interactions on the GUEDES Tibetan Plateau 8000 Years BP Foragers on High Tibetan 4 Hongliang LÜ Sichuan University Plateau: The Excavation of a Microblade Site in Northeast Tibetan Plateau Dongju Lanzhou University ZHANG Qianqian Research Institute of Archaeology Prehistoric Human Adaptation to Tibetan 5 WANG and Relics of Qinghai Province Plateau Environment Indicated by Site 151 in Institute of Tibetan Plateau the Qinghai Lake Basin Fahu CHEN Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Tibetan Plateau Juzhi HOU Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Rise and Fall of the Tibetan Empire in the 7th - 6 Institute of Tibetan Plateau 9th Centuries in Response to Climate Change Fahu CHEN Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shaoqing WEN Fudan University The Archaic Introgression and Recent 7 Guanghui Admixture of Human Populations in the Lanzhou University DONG Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Xiaoyan YANG Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences Plant Resource Exploitation in Southwestern 8 Naimeng China in Bronze Age Lanzhou University ZHANG Guanghui Lanzhou University DONG Session 2: Expanding Northeast Asian Prehistory: Integrating Linguistics and Genetics with Archaeology Organizers: Martine ROBBEETS, Tao LI, Sarah NELSON No. Name Institution Presentation Millet and Beans, Language and Genes. Martine Max Planck Institute for the 1 Agriculture-Driven Language Dispersal in ROBBEETS Science of Human History Northeast Asian Prehistory Tao LI Early Millets in the Russian Far East and Max Planck Institute for the 2 Korean Peninsula and Their Relations to Science of Human History, Jena Northeast China Chao NING Chuan-chao WANG Max Planck Institute for the Ancient Genomic Evidence for the Deep 3 Science of Human History Ancestry of Northeast Asia Chao NING Choongwon JEONG Genetic Footprint of the Introduction of Rice Max Planck Institute for the 4 Mark HUDSON Farming into the Korean Peninsula and Science of Human History, Jena Martine Japanese Archipelago ROBBEETS Christina Population Migration and Dairy Pastoralism 5 WARINNER Max Planck Institute for the on the Bronze Age Mongolian Steppe Alexander Science of Human History Proto-Turkic, Xiongnu and Beyond: 6 SAVELYEV Pastoralism Versus Agriculture Verifying the Classification of the Nataliia Max Planck Institute for the 7 Trans-Eurasian Languages Using Bayesian NESHCHERET Science of Human History Inference The Migration of Farmers from the Asian 8 Sarah NELSON University of Denver Continent to the Korean Peninsula: Geographic Conditions and New Settlements Institute of History, Archaeology Irina A Non-Ordinary Goods Complex of the & Ethnography of People of Far 9 ZHUSHCHIKH Paleo-metal Period in the Southern Russian East, Far Eastern Branch of OVSKAIA Far East Russian Academy of Sciences Kazuo Kyushu University, Japan MIYAMOTO 10 Discussion Robert Max Planck Institute for the SPENGLER Science of Human History, Jena Session 3: The Settlement and Society in the Huai River Valley During the Shang Dynasty - Taking Taijiasi as an Example Organizer: Xiaolin HE No. Name Institution Presentation A Discussion of the Settlement Plan and its 1 Xiaolin HE Wuhan University Meanings at the Site of Taijiasi Zhenzhen Analysis of Carbonized Botanic Remains at 2 Shandong University ZHAO Taijiasi Evaluating the Social and Political Jada Wing-tung Significance of Oracle Bone Divination 3 Harvard University KO Practice Through the Examination of Oracle Bones Life History at Taijiasi A Preliminary Study on the Human Bone and 4 Xuezhu LIAO Jilin University the Tooth Abrasion at Taijiasi University of Science & A Multi-Proxy Investigation on the Bronze 5 Siran LIU Technology Beijing Manufacturing Activities at the Site of Taijiasi Session 4: The Technology of Luxury: The Manufacture and Dissemination of Precious Metals and Stones Across Asia Organizers: Sarah LAURSEN, Yan LIU No. Name Institution Presentation The Spatial and Socio- Political Penetration Francis Indiana University of 1 and Impact of Exotic Artifacts in Lingnan ALLARD Pennsylvania During the Han Dynasty Luxury Portable Gold Objects in the 3rd - 1st Anna Conservation and Technical Century BCE with Particular Reference to a 2 BENNETT Services Ltd, Brussels Śuṅga Period Gold Earring Recently Found in Coastal Myanmar 3 Kyeongmi JOO Chungnam National University Royal Gold of Baekje Sarah History of Art & Architecture, Roots and Branches: A Comparison of 4 LAURSEN Middlebury College Murong and Jin Goldsmithing Techniques Symmetrically Confronting Dragons in Gold, Katheryn 5 University of Pittsburgh Bronze and Jade: The Search for Status in the LINDUFF Inner Asian Frontier Ashmolean Museum, University Han Empire and the Far West: Gold, Exotic 6 Yan LIU of Oxford Horses and Immortality 7 François LOUIS Bard Graduate Center Notes on the Hejiacun Treasure Jessica 8 University of Oxford Discussant RAWSON Session 5: Archaeological Sites as a Reflection of the Culture of Ancient and Medieval Nomads of Asia: New Discoveries, Comparative Analysis and Complex Reconstructions Organizers: Alexey TISHKIN, Nikolai SEREGIN No. Name Institution Presentation Keita The Emergence of “The Early Nomadic 1 Kyushu University MATSUMOTO Culture” in the Eurasian Steppes Exotic and Domestic: Bronze Mirrors in 2 Yanlong GUO Smith College Xinjiang During the First Millennium BCE Lower Headdresses of the Altai Population of Alexey 3 Altai State University the Xiongnu Time and Their Decoration TISHKIN (Based on Excavations of the Yaloman II Site) Social System of Central Asian Turks in the Nikolai 4 Altai State University Era of the First Kaganate (Based on the SEREGIN Materials of Archaeological Complexes) Artur Burials of Baikal Region of the 13th - 14th 5 Irkutsk State Technical University KHARINSKIY Centuries: Common and Local Characteristics A. Kh. Khalikov Institute of Sergei Archaeology Tatarstan Academy BOCHAROV of Sciences / Kazan Federal Results and Prospects of Archaeological University 6 Research of the Bulgar Settlement (Tatarstan, A. Kh. Khalikov Institute of Russia) Airat Archaeology Tatarstan Academy SITDIKOV of Sciences / Kazan Federal University Alexey Findings of Birch-Bark Details from Women's Altai State University TISHKIN Headdresses in the Mounds of the Mongolian 7 Time of the Teleutskiy Vvoz-I Site in the Sergey Novosibirsk State University of South of Western Siberia: Opportunities for PILIPENKO Economics and Management Reliable Reconstructions Session 6: Unpacking the Complexity of Cultural and Political Interaction from Han to Tang Organizer: Moritz HUBER No. Name Institution Presentation Reframing Diplomacy and Memory in the Lauren Albert-Ludwigs-Universität 1 Kushan Empire: New Data on the MORRIS Freiburg i. Brsg. Lacquerwares Excavated at Begram Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität 2 Shing MÜLLER Precious Ear Cups of Silver for the Xianbei München Japan Society for the Promotion Simple Stylistic Matter or Reflection of Satomi 3 of Sciences (JSPS) / Ryukoku Cultural Identities? Study on the Rock HIYAMA University Monasteries with “Indo-Iranian” Style Paintings in the Kucha Kingdom 4 Moritz HUBER University of Munich A Chinese Central Asian Girl Group Session 7: Meaning of Motifs and Themes in Chinese Tomb Art Organizer: Annette KIESER No. Name Institution Presentation Margareta Institute of East Asian Art A New Perspective on Han Lacquer 1 PRÜCH History, University of Heidelberg Ornaments Nataša Department of Asian and African Fuxi and Nüwa in the Murals of Han and 2 VAMPELJ Studies, University of Ljubljana, Wei-Jin Tombs SUHADOLNIK Slovenia Annette Institute for East Asian Studies, No Space for Filial Piety? The Waning of a 3 KIESER University of Muenster Popular Motif During the Southern Dynasties Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Square Tents of the 5th Century in Northern 4 Shing MÜLLER München China Military Retainers into Eternity: The Chin-Yin Depiction of Military Troops in Pingcheng 5 Dunhuang Academy TSENG Tombs and the Private Household Institution of Buqu in Practice Department of History, University The Tomb of Madame Mei Miaodeng (1430 - 6 Ina ASIM of Oregon 1474) Session 8: The Tao River Archaeological Project - Gansu, China Organizers: Rowan Kimon FLAD No. Name Institution Presentation Rowan Kimon Harvard University FLAD Gansu Provincial Institute of Jing ZHOU Archaeology The Tao River Archaeological Project: 1 Technological Change Along the Proto-Silk Gansu Provincial Institute of Hui WANG Road Archaeology Shuicheng LI Peking University Technology and Organization of Pottery 2 Ling-yu HUNG Indiana University Production: Ethnoarchaeology in the Tao River Region, NW China Andrew The China Ceramic Petrography Database: A 3 McGill University WOMACK New Platform for Ceramic Data Sharing The Xindian Site, Xindian Culture, and 4 Anke HEIN Oxford University