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Monday, 18 May, 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

AIPP SYMPOSIUM<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

9.00-9.10: Institutional greetings
LUNA ANGELINI MARINUCCI, ITALIAN EMBASSY TO EGYPT

9.10-9.20: Opening
TOMASZ KANIA (PCMA), GIUSEPPE CECERE (CAI-IIC)

9.10-9.30: BARBARA E. BARICH, JACEK KABACI\u0143SKI:
Introduction

9.30-9.50: MEHMET \u00d6ZDO\u011eAN:
Changing modalities in looking to the past, the controversy between local and global perspectives<\/em>

9.50-10.10: EMMA MBUA:
Mainstream preservation of Paleoscience research sites in Kenya to prevent degradation and to promote community identity and tourism<\/em>

10.10-10.30: SHANTI PAPPU, W. K. AKHILESH, P. JOSHI:
The South Asian Lower Palaeolithic: Case Studies from Attirampakkam and Sendrayanpalayam<\/em>

10.30-10.50: XING GAO:
New discoveries and research in the Nihewan Basin, North China<\/em>

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<\/em>

11.30-11.50: LIOUDMILA IAKOVLEVA:
Excavating a mammoth bone dwelling settlement in contemporary Ukraine<\/em>

11.50-12.10: KIDONG BAE:
Archaeology in the DMZ (demilitarized zone) in the Korean Peninsula<\/em>

12.10-12.30: MARIN CARCIUMARU, EMILIA ELENA COLAN):
Homalopoma sanguineum: a landmark of the mobility of Paleolithic hunter-gatherer communities
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12.30-12.50: YOSHIHIRO NISHIAKI:
Recent Progress in Archaeometry at the University Museum, the University of Tokyo<\/em>

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<\/em>

14.50-15.10: MOHAMED A. HAMDAN:
The Nile and the Desert: The climate as a driving force in Egyptian Civilisation<\/em>

15.10-15.30: PAOLO BIAGI:
Prehistoric sites in Sindh (Pakistan) and the way they are systematically destroyed<\/em>

15.30-15.50: Coffee Break

15.50-16.10: SVEND HANSEN:
Interdisciplinary research in the Bronze Age Caucasus<\/em>

16.10-16.30: DAVID LORDKIPANIDZE:
New evidence about the early biocultural history of Georgia<\/em>

16.30-16.50: FRANCOIS DJINDJIAN:
Postmodern Archaeology: a critical review<\/em>

16.50- 17.30: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Symposium venue: Istituto Italiano di Cultura-Centro Archeologico Italiano
Address: 14, Champollion Street, Downtown – Midan El Tahrir, Cairo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tuesday, 19 May, 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

10.00-13.00: AIPP General Assembly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General Assembly venue: Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology
Address: 11 Mahalla, Cairo-Heliopolis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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