International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology
The International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (ICCHA) (Chinese: 中国文化遗产保护与考古学研究国际中心) is the name of a collaborative centre between University College London and Peking University.
About the Centre
The International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology is a collaboration between the School for Archaeology and Museology of Peking University and the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, to promote the exchange of archaeologists between Europe and China. The ICCHA regularly hosts world-class conferences, invites visiting scholars, enables exchange and communication between Chinese and British archaeologist, seeking to bridge the gap in archaeological thought and theory.
History of the Centre
The Centre owes much to the vision of
The ICCHA celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2013.[2]
ICCHA Conferences
Source:[3]
- 2015 Dialogue of Civilizations: Comparing Multiple Centres of Early Civilizations of the World, in Beijing (jointly sponsored by the National Geographic Society, Peking University, and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage)
- 2011 Emergence of Bronze Age Societies: A Global Perspective, at Baoji Museum of Bronzes, Shaanxi Province, China, 8-12 Nov 2011[4]
- 2008 Sharing Archaeology: Heritage and Communication[5]
- 2006 On Archaeological Field Training[6]
Selected Research Projects
Source:[7]
- Imperial Logistics: The Making of the Terracotta Army
- Archaeometallurgy
- The Early Rice Project
- Comparative Pathways to Agriculture: Chinese Crop Domestications
- Neolithic Niuheliang, China
References
- ^ A festschrift titled A Future for Archaeology, edited by Robert Layton, Stephen Shennan and Peter Stone, was produced in Ucko's honour in 2006.
- ^ Fuller, DQ; Pang, R; (2015) The International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (ICCHA): After a Decade of Success. Archaeology International , 18 p. 33. 10.5334/ai.1806.
- ^ Fuller, D.Q. & Pang, R., (2015). The International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (ICCHA): After a Decade of Success. Archaeology International. 18, pp.33–36. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ai.1806
- ^ The proceedings were published as Rehren, Th (ed.), . (). Making Metals and Moulding Society: a Global Perspective on the Emergence of Bronze Age Social Complexity. Oxford: Oxbow Books
- ^ The proceedings were published as Stone, P G and Zhao, H eds. (2014). Sharing Archaeology. Academe, Practice and the Public. London: Routledge.
- ^ The proceedings were published as Ucko, P J, Ling, Q and Hubert, J eds. (2008). From concepts of the past to practical strategies: the teaching of archaeological field techniques. London: Saffron Books.
- ^ "Research Projects". www.ucl.ac.uk. 26 September 2018.