The second Shanghai Archaeology Forum was held in Shanghai from the 14th through 17th of December 2015， jointly organized by the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences， Shanghai Academy， Shanghai University， and Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Cultural Heritage Administration under the auspices ofthe Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Shanghai Municipal Government. Among the 150 scholars who participated in the forum were over 80 overseas scholars from 27 countries or regions. About 70 scholars from China also attended the forum. Most of them are leading scholars at provincial institutes of cultural heritage and archaeology as well as universities with archaeology / museology / cultural heritage programs.
At the opening ceremony， Mr. Yang Xiong （Mayor of Shanghai）， Mr. Liu Yuzhu （Director General of the State Bureau of Cultural Heritage）， and Mr. Wang Weiguang （President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences） offered their congratulatory remarks. On behalf of the Shanghai Archaeology Forum， President Wang Weiguang presented the first Lifetime Achievement Award to Professor Colin Renfrew from the University of Cambridge. The awardees of the SAF Awards were also honored during the opening ceremony; subsequently they presented their discoveries and research findings in the plenary sessions. Their presentations allowed the forum partiapants to learn more about these awarded archaeological projects， particularly theoretical perspectives， research methodologies， and the importance of actual findings.
The central theme of the second Shanghai Archaeology Forum was the archaeology of culture contact and cultural diversity. it was chosen because ofthe following considerations：
Today's world is faced with ever-increasing globalization， along with conflict and confrontation of many kinds. A very challenging issue we are all facing is how we find the solutions to conflicts among different cultures and civilizations. How might peoples from all walks oflife learn from each other and work together toward the common future of humanity while also protecting and preserving their own values and traditional cultures in the wave of globalization?
History is a mirror oflife. As an ultimate goal， archaeology should seek potential solutions to many problems we are facing in modern societies through a full understanding of our human histories， thus contributing to the present as well as the future by learning from the past.
During the second Shanghai Archaeology Forum， eleven distinguished speakers gave keynote presentations exclusively focusing on the forum's central theme despite a wide range of regional and temporal coverage. Their presentations were not only empirically grounded but also full of inspiring ideas and intellectual insights. They discussed how to protect and value the social environment of cultural diversity from various perspectives， strongly demonstrating the great concerns of archaeologists across the world on contemporary issues， and the relevance of archaeological research to the present as well as the future.
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
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
Catalhoyok： 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
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
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