The III International Symposium on the Ancient Maya in Japan: “The Cutting-Edge Interdisciplinary Research in Maya Archaeology,” was held from December 13-15 at the Tsushima Campus, Okayama University. It was the first international conference on Maya archeology at Okayama University, that culminated as a successful exchange among scholars from 6 countries.

The organizers included: the Center for Research on the Dynamics of Civilizations (Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Okayama University), and the Institute for Advanced Research (Nagoya University) ; with the support from the Center for Cultural Resource Studies (Institute of Human and Social Sciences at Kanazawa University), the Okayama Visitors and Convention Association, the Japan Society for Studies of Ancient America, and the Integrative Human Historical Science of "Out of Eurasia,” Exploring the Mechanisms of the Development of Civilization, and so on. During the three days, over 100 participants gathered at the conference to organize the first full-scale international Maya archaeological conference in Chugoku and Shikoku regions.