Monday, 18 May, 2026
AIPP SYMPOSIUM
9.00-9.10: Institutional greetings
9.10-9.30: BARBARA E. BARICH, JACEK KABACIŃSKI:
Introduction
9.30-9.50: MEHMET ÖZDOGAN:
Changing modalities in looking to the past, the controversy between local and global perspectives
9.50-10.10: EMMA MBUA:
Mainstream preservation of Paleoscience research sites in Kenya to prevent degradation and to promote community identity and tourism
10.10-10.30: SHANTI PAPPU, W. K. AKHILESH, P. JOSHI:
The South Asian Lower Palaeolithic: Case Studies from Attirampakkam and Sendrayanpalayam
10.30-10.50: XING GAO:
New discoveries and research in the Nihewan Basin, North China
10.50-11.10: Coffee Break
11.10-11.30: MOHAMED SAHNOUNI:
The hard evidence for a long chronology of the first human occupation in North Africa. Results of multidisciplinary investigations at Ain Boucherit and Ain Hanech Plio-Pleistocene sites, Algeria
11.30-11.50: LIOUDMILA IAKOVLEVA:
Excavating a mammoth bone dwelling settlement in contemporary Ukraine
11.50-12.10: KIDONG BAE:
Archaeology in the DMZ (demilitarized zone) in the Korean Peninsula
12.10-12.30: MARIN CARCIUMARU, EMILIA ELENA COLAN):
Homalopoma sanguineum: a landmark of the mobility of Paleolithic hunter-gatherer communities
12.30-12.50: YOSHI NISHIAKI:
Recent Progress in Archaeometry at the University Museum, the University of Tokyo
LUNCH BREAK: 12.50-14.30
14.30-14.50: GIULIO LUCARINI, A. BRUCATO, M. A. HAMDAN, D. P. PAVONE, I. VENIR, BARICH B.E.:
Settlement Trajectories in the Mid-Holocene Egyptian Western Desert. Evidence from Farafra
14.50-15.10: MOHAMED A. HAMDAN:
The Nile and the Desert: The climate as a driving force in Egyptian Civilisation
15.10-15.30: PAOLO BIAGI:
Prehistoric sites in Sindh (Pakistan) and the way they are systematically destroyed
15.30-15.50: Coffee Break
15.50-16.10: SVEND HANSEN:
Interdisciplinary research in the Bronze Age Caucasus
16.10-16.30: DAVID LORDKIPANIDZE:
New evidence about the early biocultural history of Georgia
16.30-16.50: FRANCOIS DIJNDIJAN:
Postmodern Archaeology: a critical review
16.50- 17.30: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
Symposium venue: Istituto Italiano di Cultura-Centro Archeologico Italiano
Address: 14, Champollion Street, Downtown – Midan El Tahrir, Cairo
Tuesday, 19 May, 2026
10.00-13.00: AIPP General Assembly
General Assembly venue: Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology
Address: 11 Mahalla, Cairo-Heliopolis
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