An International Symposium on Amsa Prehistoric Site 2016 to be held at Korea Press Center during the festival periodView 2317
- Reporting Date : 2016-09-28
An International Symposium on Amsa Prehistoric Site 2016 to be held at Korea Press Center during the festival period
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․ Domestic and foreign scholars including Prof. Sarah Nelson, an archaeologist, to gather at Korea Press Center conference hall on Oct. 7
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․ Participants scheduled to visit the Amsa-dong Prehistoric Settlement Site and the Prehistoric Culture Festival of Gangdong on Oct. 8
▲ International Symposium on Amsa Prehistoric Site 2016 will be held at the international conference hall on the 20th floor of Korea Press Center on October 7. The conference has been organized to examine various cases of prehistoric remains in countries around the world and to bring light to the inherent and unique characteristics of the Amsa-dong site through comparison and analysis.
Professor Sarah Nelson from the University of Denver in the U.S. and Professor Peter Bellwood from the Australian National University will deliver keynote lectures on the subjects of ‘Apply New Conceptions to Korean Archaeology’ and ‘A Model for the Emergence and Expansion of Agricultural Societies in Central China and Southeast Asia,’ respectively. Professor Nelson is a prominent foreign expert unmatched in the field of Korean neolithic culture, who received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan with a dissertation on comb-pattern vessels in the Han River Basin in the neolithic age and established an independent Korean archaeology division in the Society for East Asian Archaeology. Professor Bellwood is a prominent archeologist who has studied human culture with emphasis on Asian prehistoric heritage.
In addition, numerous experts from Korea and abroad, including Yuichiro Matsuura from the Tokyo National Museum, Kim Young huy from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Eusebio Dizon from the Philippine National Museum, Yunus Arbi from the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture, and Hsiu-Tzu Wu from Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan, will take part in the conference as presenters and panelists.
The international conference is expected to help facilitate the Amsa-dong site’s inclusion among the UNESCO World Heritage sites.
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