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The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage (Ji Byongmok, Director General), of the Cultural Heritage Administration will hold the international Symposium 2021 Asian Archaeology at the assembly hall of the Cultural Heritage Analysis Information Center on Oct. 29.

Various research outcomes on Eurasian Horse Riding Culture from in- and outside of the country will be presented at this year’s conference, as well as the recent excavation discoveries of Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan, by their respective experts via online presence. Furthermore, potential tasks and directionalities for the research of overseas sites in the Post-Covid times will be discussed, since international joint excavations have been on hold ever since the break of the pandemic.

The first part will cover the major research results of horse tacks in Korea and Eurasian regions: the current research and future tasks on ancient horse tacks in the souther area of Korea (Nam Sangwon, NRICH); horse tacks recovered from Xiongnu tombs (G. Eregzen, Mongolian Academy of Sciences); ancient horse tacks of Kazakhstan (Onggar, A. Kh. Margulan Institute of Archaeology).

Potential Post-Covid Research methods will be discussed in the second leg: Post-Covid sample collection methodologies for scientific research (Hong Jongha, Kyung Hee University); Inquiry into Non-Zhongyuan iron production technologies (Sim Jaeyeon, Hallym University); prospective coordination of Post-Covid Joint Excavations of overseas sites (Jeong Seongmok, NRICH)

Prominent experts of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Mongolia will present the recent excavation results of their respective countries, ranging from the Paleolithic to the Medieval Times, in the third part.

Lastly, a QnA session - hosted by Prof. Kang Inuk (Kyung Hee University) - is scheduled, during which all speakers can participate via online conference to ask and answer questions about the recent discoveries made in the Eurasian Regions.

This event will be held both at the venue - following the quarantine guidelines such as wearing of a mask, keeping the physical distance and screening of the body temperature- for the Korean speakers, and ‘untact’ for the speakers from other countries and participants – streaming live on YouTube https://youtu.be/srmNDfU1MYo from 10:00 am KST on October 29, 2021 -. In addition, the papers of the symposium will be made available for download at the website of NRICH http://portal.nrich.go.kr/kor/originalUsrTotalList.do?menuIdx=1046.

The National Research Institute of the Cultural Heritage Administration expects this event to be an opportunity to review the recent research/investigation outcomes of the Eurasian Archaeology, and examine new possibilities for joint excavations of overseas sites, which have been put on hold due to the pandemic. The ‘executive agency’, as the major research institute in- and outside of Korea, will continue to strive to lead and promote the Eurasian Archaeology.