Co-hosted by Royal Asiatic Society, Beijing (RASBJ), Yale Club of Beijing, and Yale Center Beijing. This Talk is part of the Greenberg Distinguished Colloquium.

Event Time

Saturday, November 29, 2025
Registration & Light Dinner
18:00 - 18:30
Presentation and Q&A
18:30 - 20:00

Location

Yale Center Beijing 
36th Floor Tower B of IFC Building 8 Jianguomenwai Avenue Chaoyang District, Beijing (Yong'anli Subway Station, Exit C) 

Registration and Fees

Registration
Please click “HERE” to register. Please send an email to yalecenterbeijing@yale.edu if there are any problems. If you encounter any payment issues, please attach a screenshot that identifies the issue. 

Ticket: RMB 30 for students, Yale alumni and RASBJ members; RMB 60 for regular admission (The ticket covers a light meal).

**The registration fee for the event is non-refundable. Unless due to a force majeure reason, Yale Center Beijing will not refund any part of the registration fee if a participant fails to attend the event.

Walk-ins will not be accepted.

The language of the event will be English.

Note: Seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis.

The Event

A major research topic in archaeology is how the earliest cities in the world developed. On 29 November, Anne Underhill, Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, will share results from her long-term collaborative project with Shandong University about urbanization during the late Neolithic period in southeastern Shandong, in addition to her appreciation for the opportunity to learn about cultural heritage protection in China.

The Speaker

Anne Underhill
Professor of Anthropology & Former Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Curator, Yale Peabody Museum

Anne Underhill is a Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and a recipient of the national Friendship Award from China in 2008. She specializes in the archaeology of East Asia (primarily China), and her related interests are museum anthropology and protecting sites from the illegal antiquities market. She has collaborated with archaeologists at Shandong University, in regional survey and excavation since 1995. The focus has been understanding changes in regional settlement and economic organization during the late prehistoric and early Bronze Age periods in the Rizhao area of southeastern Shandong.