Preliminary Program
April 9th
Morning:
Registration
Welcome address
Session 1: The Lingjing site
Keynote speaker:
Maria Martinón-Torres (Xuchang’s Man and its place in hominin evolution)
Afternoon:
Session 2: Comparison with East Asian penecontemporaneous sites
Keynote speakers:
Francesco d’Errico (Symbolic behaviour amongst archaic hominins)
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi (The Palaeoenvironmental context of the Middle to Late Pleistocene transition)
Visit of the Shandong University Museum, Qingdao Campus
April 10th
Morning:
Keynote speakers:
Gao Xing (The subdivision of the Palaeolithic in China: A historical review)
Jacques Jaubert (Meanwhile in Europe: A review of the behavioural diversity during the Middle to Late Pleistocene transition)
Session 3: Comparison with Central Asian penecontemporaneous sites
Afternoon:
Session 4: Comparison with European penecontemporaneous sites
Session 5: Comparison with African penecontemporaneous sites
Keynote speakers:
Robin W. Dennell (Global trends in human evolution during the Middle to Late Pleistocene transition)
Discussion and Conclusion