The GINI (Global Dynamics of Inequality) project is awarded a 2025 Shanghai Archaeology Forum research award

The GINI (Global Dynamics of Inequality) project (led by Amy Bogaard, Tim Kohler (WSU) and Scott Ortman (UC Boulder)) was awarded a 2025 Shanghai Archaeology Forum research award. GINI is a large-scale international collaboration that culminated in a PNAS Special Feature on long-term inequality, published in April, 2025. The project has included contributions by Oxford archaeologists Shadreck Chirikure, Helena Hamerow and Jack Hanson. The collaboration is one of 10 international projects which will be celebrated at the SAF annual meeting in Shanghai this week, selected from 140 nominations. 

The 6th Shanghai Archaeology Forum will beheld from the 15th through the 18th of December 2025 in Shanghai, China. The Shanghai Archaeology Forum (SAF) is a global biennial initiative established in 2013 to promote the investigation, protection, and utilization of world archaeological resources and cultural heritage. It is hosted by the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the Shanghai Municipal Government.