Cross-regional and Cross-cultural Comparison on Water, Power and Historicity

Programme

• 13:00-13:40: Neolithic water management and geoarchaeological evidence from the Jiaojia Site, Shandong, China Professor Guiyun Jin, Shandong University, China
• 13:40-14:40 (with translation): The cultural distribution and the development of alluvial fans in Eastern and Western China - Professor Houyuan LU, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS), Chin
• 14:40-15:20: Egyptian Empires, climate change and the control of the Nile - Dr Judith Bunbury, University of Cambridge

15:20-15:50: Coffee break

• 15:50-16:30: Two pathways of water management towards complex societies: Archaeological and geoarchaeological evidence  from prehistoric China - Dr Hai Zhang, School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, China
• 16:30-17:10: The rise of complex societies and climate in Mesopotamia: Results from Shalaii Cave - Professor Mark Altaweel, UCL Institute of Archaeology
• 17:10-17:50: Chronological view of water resources: Practical, sacred, and political values in Pacific Oceania - Dr Mike T. Carson, Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam

17:50-18:20: Wine reception

Any queries should be sent to the conference organizer Dr Yijie Zhuang (y.zhuang@ucl.ac.uk).