Migration, Mobility and Burial Practice in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Western Pacific, 4000 through 2000 Years BP (Special Session in Memory of Prof. Yoji Aoyagi)

This session aims to integrate the newest findings relevant to the migrations and mobility of people, their burial practices, materials, and ideas inter-regionally across East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Pacific Oceania. Different portions of this large and complex picture have been studied through archaeology, physical anthropology, genetic study, and varied fields and sub-fields at several site locations and time periods. Here we will bring specialists and experts into a cohesive discussion, accounting for the Neolithic and Metal Age records spanning approximately 4000 through 2000 years BP, found in diverse geographic contexts, and related with varied cultura settings.
The session is dedicated to the late Prof. Yoji Aoyagi who passed away in September 2017, in honour of his several decades of work in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.