世界考古论坛是由中国社会科学院考古研究所主办，十几个国家的著名考古学家参与的盛大的学术活动。本书是世界考古论坛中发布的论文集。本文集有中外多名学者在考古学多个方面的报告，包含了2017-2019年世界上最新最全面的考古发现及研究成果汇总，是一部了解世界考古学现状的著作。

Addresses at the Opening Ceremony
Congratulatory Address by Ying Yong
Congratulatory Address by Xie Fuzhan
Congratulatory Address by Gu Yucai
Lifetime Achievement Award
Jane Ellen Buikstra
Field Discovery Awards
Globalization along the Early Maritime Silk Road: A View towards a Systemic and Plural History from the Isthmus of Kra,
The Emergence and Consolidation of State in Anatolia as Evidenced at Kiiltepe Excavations
Fort San Juan and the Limits of Empire: Colonial Encounters at the Berry Site
The Copper Age Settlement Mound "Magura Gorgana" near Pietrele on the Lower Danube
The Ness of Brodgar, Orkney, Scotland
Foreshadowing Urbanization and Globalization at Prehistoric Keros: The First Information Revolution in the Third Millennium Aegean
Callao Cave and the Discovery of the Homo Luzonenesis
Luxury in the Underground: Archaeological Achievements of the Western Han Tomb of the Marquis of Haihun in Nanchang, China
Archaeology of Glass in Sub-Saharan Africa
A Mass Sacrifice of Children and Camelids in the North Coast of Peru during the 15th Century AD
Research Awards
Tracing the Origins of Bronze Technology and Metal Exchange in Southeast Asia
La Quemada and Ancient Globalization in West Mexico, 600-1400 CE
Far from Pristine: What Lesson can Amazonian Archaeology Teach to World Archaeology?
Obsidian Provenance in Northeast Asia: Gaining Solid Evidence for Prehistoric Exchange and Migrations
Archaeometry and Urbanism at Great Zimbabwe
The Evolution of Human Cooperation
Archaeology of the Making of a Bronze Age Capital City: Bogazkoy / Hattusha through Time
Boom and Bust, Hierarchy and Balance: From Landscape to Social Meaning--Megaliths and Societies in Northern Central Europe
Researching the Olmec, Mesoamerica's Oldest Civilization
World Archaeology Keynote Lecture Series
Bioarchaeology Goes Global
Archaeology and History at the Ancient City of Sisupalgarh, India
Urbanization and Globalization in the Bronze Age Levant: Megiddo as a Case Study
World Archaeology and World Heritage
The Urban Development Process in Teotihuacan and the Political-Economic Expansion in the Mesoamerican Territory
The Roots of Urbanism in the U,S. Southwest: How Migration, Coalescence, and Inequality Created the Chaco World
Monuments and Social Change in Prehistoric Western Europe
The Intersection of Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Global Frictions: New Challenges for Africa's Archaeologists
The Early Copper Industry in Southwest Asia: A Regional and Supra-regional System
Recent Developments in Chinese Archaeology
Jinsha Site
Jade and Setdement: Social Complexity of Lingjiatan Site
Discovery and Research on Early Civilizations in Liao River Basin
Underwater Cultural Heritage and Maritime Silk Route
From the Emergence of Modern Human to the Origin of Agriculture--a Study of Cultural Development of Ancient Human in the Late Pleistocene, Central China
Abstracts of Other Presentations
Public Archaeology Keynote Lecture
Postface