Summary: The Silk Road Archaeology Committee Under China Institute of Archaeology founded For enhancing the communication and cooperation in the area of Silk Road archaeology and its relevant fields, and promoting the development of Chinese archaeological research

The Silk Road Archaeology Committee Under China Institute of Archaeology  founded

For enhancing the communication and cooperation in the area of Silk Road archaeology and its relevant fields, and promoting the development of Chinese archaeological research about the Silk Road, the Ningxia Institute of Archaeology, Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology of Jilin University, and the Silk Road Archaeology Committee of the Chinese Institute of Archaeology have hosted the “International Symposium on Early Silk Roads and East-West Cultural Exchanges, and the Inaugural Meeting of the Silk Road Archaeology Committee of the Institute of Archaeology” at Yinchuan and Guyuan of the Ningxia Province from September 22^nd to 25^th, 2016. More than 80 Chinese and overseas Silk Road archaeologists and scholars have attended the conference.

In the evening of September 22^nd, Chinese and overseas Silk Road archaeologists and scholars have attended the inaugural meeting of the Silk Road Archaeology Committee of the Institute of Archaeology, which is hosted by the researcher An Jiayao from the the Insitute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Researcher Jiao Nanfeng attended the meeting in representation of the committee. The election at the meeting produces the director, executive deputy director, vice director, and the secretary general of the committee. The meeting also finalized the list of over 60 committee members. Members at the meeting provided an in-depth discussion about the regulations of the Silk road Archaeology Committee, and put forward the prospect of the committee.

   In the morning of 23^rd, September, the inaugural meeting of the Silk Road Archaeology Committee of the Institute of Archaeology was hosted by Researcher An Jiayao. Researcher Jiao Nanfeng from the Silk Road Archaeology Committee declared on behalf of the President of the Institute of Archaeology Wang Ji about the approval of the establishment of the Silk Road Archeology Committee, and the nomination list of the director, executive deputy director, vice director, and the secretary general of the committee. The Secretary General of the Chinsese Institute of Archaeology, Professor Shen Ruiwen, read out the Regulation of the Silk road Archaeology Committee. In the following stage, a heated discussion around the topic of the early Silk Road and the East-West cultural exchanges was taken place in both Yinchuan and Guyuan. Around 30 Chinese and overseas scholars addressed gracious lectures about the cultural exchanges on the Eurasian Continent from the Paleolithic period to the Qin-Han period, and the latest research achievements in the field of archaeometry, including the dissemination of metal works, and the molecular archaeology of animals. Representatives speaked highly about this well-organized meeting, its in-depth discussions and rich research results, and praised that this meeting promoted the research in relevant areas, and further improved our comprehensions of the early cultural exchanges between the East and the West.