Themes

WAC Congresses are organised around themes. Each theme contains a set of sessions covering different aspects of that theme. Explore the themes accepted for WAC-10 below. Note that the order of papers in the sessions below does not necessarily reflect the order of papers as they will be delivered at the Congress.

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THEME 01: Paleoenvironment and Human Adaptation Strategies During the Pleistocene and Holocene

THEME 02: Restitution: Gifts, Tokenism or Serious Engagements?

THEME 03: Landscape Approaches in Archaeology

THEME 04: Identities, Human Rights, Freedom and Archaeology in the Globalised World

THEME 05: Rock Art: Global Challenges and Opportunities for Research, Management and Conservation

THEME 06: Rethinking the Archaeology of Foragers

THEME 07: Archaeologies of the Tropics

THEME 08: Interactive Media: 21st Century Heritage, Storytelling and Interpretation

THEME 09: The Transformational Power of Teaching and Learning in Archaeology and Heritage

THEME 10: From Soil to Archive and Beyond: Digital Tools to Support Archaeological Processes

THEME 11: Gender, Women’s Ancestral/Native Knowledge, Dissident Voices and the Making of Archaeology in the Global South

THEME 12: Archaeological Sciences: State of the Art and New Advances in Archaeology

THEME 13: Archaeology of Africa

THEME 14: Archaeology, Heritage and Communities

THEME 15: Transforming Human Origins Research

THEME 16: Endangered Archaeological Sites and Cultural Landscapes: Addressing Climate, Conflict and Human Impacts

THEME 17: Finding Futures in Heritage: Heritage for Wellbeing, Sustainability, Sovereignty and Engagement

THEME 18: Exploring Intersectionalities: Women in Archaeology

THEME 19: From Apollo to Artemis: 25 Years of Space Archaeology

THEME 20: From Palaeolithic to Contemporary Asian Cultures: Perspectives from Archaeology and Other Disciplines

THEME 21: Buddhism in Asia: Spread, Regional Adaptations, Emergence of Art, Architecture and its Impact on Society

THEME 22: Changing Bioarchaeological Ethics and Practice in the 21st Century

THEME 23: Technologies of Water, Earth and Fire

THEME 24: Archaeologies of the North and the South: Searching for Connections Between Outwardly Disparate Worlds

THEME 25: Historical Archaeology: Entanglements of Colonialism and Capitalism Across the Globe

THEME 26: Featuring ‘Women at Work’: New Approaches to Engendering and Shaping Archaeology