Preface Wang Wei Addresses at the Opening Ceremony Congratulatory Address by Wang Weiguang Congratulatory Address by Yang Xiong Congratulatory Address by Liu Yuzhu Field Discovery Awards Map showing the localities of Field Discovery Awards Archaeological Investigation into the TusiSites in China's Southwest: Imperial Expansion and the Colonization of Frontiers and Borderlands Zhou Bisu,Guo Weimin and Fang O.in Exploring the Tunnel Underneath the Feathered Serpent Temple at Teotihuacan, Mexico Sergio G6mez Ch~vez Early Urbanism in Europe? -The Case of the Trypillia Mega-sites, Ukraine John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska Revealing North America's First Native City: Rediscovery and Large-Scale Excavation of Cahokia's East St. Louis Precinct Thomas Eugene Emerson The Dawn of Technology: 3.3-Million-Year-Old Stone Tools from Lake Turkana, Kenya Sonia Harmand Gravisca Emporion-the Port of the Etruscan City of Tarquinia: New Excavations at the Sanctuary of Suris and Cavatha Lucio Fiorini Discovering the Harbor of King Khufu at Wadi eI-Jarf in Egypt Pierre Tallet A Very Early 'Palatial Complex' at Arslantepe, Malatya (Turkey): a New Trajectory to the Origin of the State Marcella Frangipane Recent Studies at Noyon Uul Burial Mounds: Unknown Facts of Life of Central Asian Nomads Natalia V. Polosmak Five Thousand Years of Taiwan's Past Brought to Light by Rescue Archaeology Cheng-hwa Tsang and Kuang-ti Li Research Awards Map showing the localities of research Awards Catalhoy0k: Important Anatolian Contributions to the Development of Early Societies lan Hodder Population Genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia Eske Willerslev Three Global Human Migrations in Eurasia: the Origin of Humans and the Peopling of Southwestern, Southern, Eastern and Southeastern Asia and the Caucasus Anatoly Derevianko Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe (EUROEVOL) Stephen Shennan Teopancazco: a Multiethnic Neighborhood Center at Teotihuacan, Central Mexico Linda R. Manzanilla The Times of Their l ives: High-Resolution Radiocarbon-Based Chronological Analysis of the European Neolithic, through Formal Modelling Alasdair Whittle and Alex Bayliss Cuello: the Economic and Social Origins of Maya Civilisation Norman Hammond The Origin and Spread of Broomcorn and Foxtail Millets Zhao Zhijun, Martin Jones and Liu Xinyi The Earliest Farmers in the Southwest William Doelle, James Vint and Sarah Herr From First Farmers to First Cities: New Insights into the Agricultural Origins of Urban Societies in Western Eurasia Amy Bogaard and Amy Styring The Great Temple Project: in Search of the Sacred Precinct of Mexico-Tenochtitlan Leonardo L6pez Luj~n World Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series The Archaeology of Contact and Cultural Diversity: Egypt, Nubia and Punt, 3500- 1470 BCE Kathryn Bard The Materiality of the Colonial Encounter in South America: Resistance, Alliance and Ethnogenesis Gustavo G.Politis Ceramic Petrography as a Technique for Documenting Cultural Contact and Interaction in Prehistory James B. Stoltman The Silk Road Before the Han Dynasty Wang Wei Changing Connectivities at the Cross-Roads Between Africa and Europe: 150,000 Years of Prehistory at the Haua Fteah Cave, Libya Graeme Barker Trajectories of Settlement Growth: Contact, Diversity and Outcome in the Development of Low-Density Settlements Roland Fletcher The "Centrality of Central Asia" Revisited: Ancient Civilization Along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor Michael Frachetti Eurasian Art Styles in the First Millennium BC Christ Gosden Southern Africa in Pre-modern Globalization Innocent Pikirayi Relevance of Ancient Cultural Heritage to the Modern Society-Aspirations and Future Challenges Vasant Shinde Castrum Inui: a Sanctuary for Two Ancestral Gods of Different Ethnic Groups Mario Torelli Public Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series The Role of Public Archaeology in Three Contrasting Contexts: Thailand, Cambodia and China Charles Higham Archaeology and the Human Condition: the Significance of Prehistory Colin Renfrew The Early Florescence of the Chinese Economy in Light of Archaeological Discoveries Lothar von Falkenhausen Abstracts of Other Presentations Postface Chen Xingcan and Jing Zhichun