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Below you will see a list of themes for the congress. Click on a theme title to see the theme details, including a list of sessions for that theme. Each session can then be clicked to reveal session details including a list of papers. The session pages also show the day of the week on which the session will run. You can also do a search by author, title or abstract >>

• Archaeological Theory? Legacies, Burdens, Futures
• Archaeologies of Art
• Archaeologists, War and Conflict: Ethics, Politics, Responsibility
• Archaeology and the Museum
• Archaeology in the Digital Age 2.0
• Archaeology of Spiritualities
• Archaeology, Development and Quality Assurance: an International Perspective
• Critical Technologies: the Making of the Modern World
• Cultural and Intellectual Property Issues in Archaeological Heritage: Identifying the Issues, Developing Modes of Resolution
• Developing International Geoarchaeology
• Emerging Global Archaeologies
• Engaged and Useful Archaeologies
• Exploring WAC’s Approach(es) to Ethics
• Getting the Message Across - Communicating Archaeology
• Heritage Tourism Agendas
• Independent Sessions
• Indigenous Archaeologies: New Challenges
• Intimate Encounters, Postcolonial Engagements: Archaeologies of Empire and Sexuality
• Issues in Historical Archaeology
• Land and Archaeology
• Living in Island Worlds
• Maritime and Underwater Archaeology
• Materializing Identities I: Personhood, Politics and the Presentation of Identity
• Materializing Identities II: Materials, Techniques, Practice
• Memory, Archaeology and Oral Traditions
• Migration and Movement
• Moving Beyond the Meal: the Economics and Politics of Communal Foraging
• Our Changing Planet: Past Human Environments in Modern Contexts
• Peopling the Past, Individualizing the Present: Bioarchaeological Contributions in a Global Context
• Rainforest as Artefact
• Reflections on Archaeology and Politics
• The Impact of Innovation
• Wetland Archaeology Across the World