PaleoAsia 2018 Public Lecture, From Africa to Asia: Origins and Dispersals of Early Modern Humans

Date & Hours: Saturday, December 15, 2018, 13:00 – 17:00
Venue: Kyoto International Conference Center
Main organizer: Cultural History of PaleoAsia Project
Co-Organizer: Open Team Science Project
Language: English-Japanese simultaneous translation is available
No registration fee, Capacity 200 people

Program:
1.  13：00 – 13：30  Intorduction to the Workship PaleoAsia2018, Yoshihiro Nishiaki, The University of Tokyo
2.  13：30 – 14：15  Neanderthals in Siberia: new discoveries in Altai Mountains, Andrey Krivoshapkin, National Academy of Sciences, Russia
3.  14：15 – 15：00  Human dispersals into East Asia, Robin Dennell, University of Exerter
4.  15：00-15：15  Coffee break
5.  15：15 – 16：00  Stories behind the people’s migration from Africa to the Japanese Islands 30,000 years ago,
Yosuke Kaifu, National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan
6.  16：00 – 17：00  Discussion