The European Association of the Southeast Asian Archaeologists (EurASEAA) was established in 1986. Since then, its conferences have been held every two years, bringing together leading experts in Southeast Asian archaeology from Europe, the United States, and the countries of region 1.
The 13th regular EurASEAA Conference "Crossing Borders in Southeast Asian Archaeology" was held in Berlin on September 27-October 1, 2010. It was organized by the Institute of Near Asian Archaeology of the Free University of Berlin, the Ethnological Museum of Berlin and the German Archaeological Institute. The Organizing committee of the conference was headed by the Director of the Institute of Near Asian Archaeology D. Bonats (Germany).
The conference was attended by over 260 scientists from Great Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Poland, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and other countries of the world. The conference website is dedicated to http://euraseaa.userpage.fu-berlin.de/
D. Bonac and B. Bellina-Price (France) delivered welcoming speeches on behalf of the EurASEAA Scientific Committee at the opening of the forum.
The conference was organized in seventeen sections with the aim of "crossing the frontiers in archaeology" of the region. The study of prehistoric cultures included sections on "Prehistoric Maritime Exchange: Cultural Hybridization between the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea", "Distribution of Neolithic cultures and field agriculture", "Variability and Distribution of Stone Tools in Southeast Asia: Hoabin and Other Groups", and "Anthropological Remains and Burial Practices in Southeast Asia". Asia" and "Iron Age Art and Exchange in Southeast Asia". Architecture and art were considered in the sections "Art and Architecture as sources for understanding cultural interaction", "Khmer Art and Architecture: Center and Periphery"," Multidirectional Currents ...
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