Francis Allard organized a symposium on “Inter-regional Interaction in East Asian Prehistory and History” and presented “Exotic Prestige Goods and Emergent Social Complexity in South China: Challenging Models of Culture Change” at the fourth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology in Beijing, China. While in China, he also gave talks on “The Role of Prestige Goods in the Development of Pre-Qin Societies in Lingnan” at Sichuan University and Xiamen University. He also presented a poster titled “Horse Focused Ritual Practice in Mongolia: An Example of Long-term Continuity?” at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada.
Department of Anthropology
