introduction about mission organization forum programs publicationsaddresses at the opening ceremony congratulatory address by wang weiguang, president of the chinese academy of social sciences congratulatory address by yang xiong, mayor of shanghai congratulatory address by tong mingkang, deputy director of the state administration of cultural heritage congratulatory address by lord colin renfrew from the university of cambridge congratulatory address by wang wei, director of the institute of archaeology at the chinese academy of social sciencesselection program early ceremonial constructions at ceibal, guatemala, and the origins of lowland maya civilization kodumanal: an early historic industrial-cum-trade centre of south india sacral place of the first metallurgists of urals in search of the pyramid settlements: archaeology of everyday life at giza searching for a lost civilization: new findings from the liangzhu archaic city archaeological research on the ancient temples of the upper amazon in peru g6bekli tepe (southeastern turkey) - megalithic sanctuaries and the "neolithic revolution". worldview and social histories materialized at monuments in teotihuacan,mexico shimao: a stone-walled settlement of the 2nd millennium bc in northern china rulers of mycenaean laconia: new insights from excavations at the palatial settlement of ayios vasileios near sparta discovery of archaic humans from the pleistocene-holocene transition of southwest china patterned variation at the beginnings of complex society the creation of inequality: how our prehistoric ancestors set the stage for monarchy, slavery, and empire the history of urbanism at angkor - a giant low-density city ancient kura 2olo-2o12: human-environment interaction in neolithic southern caucasia the origins of the civilization of angkor the village ecodynamics project: pueblo societies through time in the us southwest archaeological investigation at the temples of the sun and moon, trujillo, peru in search of the origins of chinese civilization: a long-term transdisciplinary programworld archaeology keynote lecture series the art of urbanism: recent comparative studies of the ideological and environmental foundations of highland and lowland mesoamerican cities and states archaeology for our times the comparative archaeology of ancient civilizations the indus civilization (26oo-19oo bc): early urbanism in south asia and its legacy the origins of ritual and monumentality in prehistory: a comparative approach the ritualized economy and the origins of complex society: an archaeological perspective the formation of early chinese civilization: an archaeological perspectivepublic archaeology keynote lecture series managing monte alban - a world heritage site in mexico lost cities and buried civilizations: why are they important? cultural heritage as a bridge across continentspostface