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 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 18: Exploring Intersectionalities: Women in Archaeology
THEME 19: From Apollo to Artemis: 25 Years of Space Archaeology
THEME 22: Changing Bioarchaeological Ethics and Practice in the 21st Century
THEME 23: Technologies of Water, Earth and Fire
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