From Villages to Cities: Agricultural Production and Settlement Growth in Eastern Eurasia

Programme

10:00-10:30 Coffee and Welcome

• 10:30-11:30 Luan, Fengshi (Keynote speaker, Shandong University) – The Emergence of Inner and Outer Cities: a New Phase in China’s Early Urban Development
• 11:30-12:00 Qin, Ling (Peking University) – the Foundation of Agriculture in Longshan Culture: Understanding the City-Centred Regional Social Model in Hai-Dai Area in Shandong
• 12:00-12:30 Dorian Fuller (UCL) – Agricultural Innovation: Perennial crops, and urbanising agriculture
• 12:30-13:00 Jin, Guiyun (Shandong University) – Subsistence and Society: Understanding the Beixin Culture in Shandong

13:00-14:00 Lunch

• 14:00-14:40. Scott Hawken (UNSW Sydney) – Agrarian Urbanism in Southeast Asia: a multi-millennial view of landscape change
• 14:40-15:10 Cristina Castillo (UCL) – Agricultural Production and Urban Horticulture at Angkor Wat
• 15:10-15:40 Wang, Tingting (Sun Yat-sen University) – Crossing Paths: Millet, Wheat and Early East-West Interaction along the Inner Asia Mountain Corridor

15:40-16:00 Coffee break

• 16:00-16:30 Miljana Radivojevic (UCL) – Before Silk: Tracing the Bronze Roads in Central Asia
• 16:30-17:00 Li, Cheng (Northwest University) – The Spread of Wheat Cultivation in the Middle-and-Lower Yellow River Valley during Han Dynasty
• 17:00-17:30 Rita Dal Martello (UCL) - Agricultural Production in Yunnan from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age
• 17:30-18:00 Marvin Demicoli (Liverpool University) – Wood, Fire and People: Insights from Wood Charcoal in Neolithic sites in China

18:00 Closing remarks by Dorian Fuller and Wine Reception

The event is free but booking is essential.