Congresses held
1º - 1875, Nancy
President: Baron Guerrier de Dumast
General Secretary: Alfred Rambaud
2º - 1877, Luxembourg
President: Francois-Xavier Wurth-Paquet
General Secretary: Dr. Henrion
3º - 1879, Brussels
President: Baron A.C.A.L. Goethels
General Secretary: Anatole Bamps
4º - 1881, Madrid
President: José Luis Albreda
General Secretary: Cesáreo Fernández Duro
5º - 1883, Copenhagen
President: Johan Jakob A. Worsaae
General Secretary: W.A. Carteasen
6º - 1886, Turin
President: Ariodante Fabretti
General Secretary: Guido Cora
7º - 1888, Berlin
President: Wilhelm Reiss
General Secretaries: Gustav Hellmann, Otto Olshausen
8º - 1890, Paris
President: Armand de Quatrefages de Brea
General Secretary: Desiré Pector
9º - 1892, Huelva
President: Antonio María Fabié
General Secretary: Justo Zaragoza
10º - 1894, Stockholm
Presidents: Gustav A. Tamm, Rudolf Virchow, Adolf E. Nordenskiold
General Secretary: Carl Bovallius
11º - 1895, Mexico City
President: Joaquín Baranda
General Secretary: Trinidad Sánchez Santos
12º - 1900, Paris
President: Ernest T. Hamy
General Secretary: Henri Froidevaux
13º - 1902, New York
President: Morris K. Jesup
General Secretary: Marshall H. Saville
14º - 1904, Stuttgart
President: Karl Von de Steinen
General Secretary: Kurt Lampert
15º - 1906, Quebec
President: Robert Bell
General Secretary: Narcisse E. Dione
16º - 1908, Vienna
President: Wilhelm Freiherr Von Weckbecker
General Secretary: Franz Heder
17º - 1910 (Firts Part), Buenos Aires
President: José Nicolás Matienzo
General Secretary: Robert Lehmann-Nitsche
17º - 1910 (Second Part), Mexico City
President: Eduard Seler
General Secretary: Genaro García
18º- 1912, London
President: Clements Robert Markham
General Secretaries: F.C.A. Sarg, Adela A. Breton
19º - 1915, Washington
President: John W. Fisher
General Secretary: Alex Hrdlicka
20º - 1922, Rio de Janeiro
President: Antonio Carlos Simoens da Silva
General Secretary: Adolpho Morales de los Ríos
21º - 1924 (First Part), The Hague
President: Theodore Félix Albert Delprat
General Secretary: D. Alberts
21º - 1924 (Second Part), Göteborg
President: Oscar Von Sydow
General Secretary: Nils Erland H. Nordenskiold
22º - 1926, Rome
President: Amedo Giannini
General Secretary: Guido Valeriano Callegari
23º - 1928, New York
President: Franz Boas
General Secretaries: P.E. Goddart, Nels C. Nelson
24º - 1930, Hamburg
President: Georg Christian Thilenius
General Secretary: Rudolf Grossmann
25º - 1932, La Plata
President: Ricardo Levene
General Secretary: Fernando Márquez Miranda
26º - 1935, Seville
President: Gregorio Marañón Posadillo
General Secretary: José María Torroja Miret
27º - 1939 (First Part), Mexico City
President: Alfonso Caro
General Secretary: Pablo Martínez del Río
27º - 1939 (Second Part), Lima
President: Alfredo Solf y Muro
General Secretary: Jorge Basadre
28º - 1947, Paris
President: Paul Rivet
General Secretary: André Leroi-Gourhan
29º - 1949, New York
President: Alfred L. Kroeber
General Secretary: Alfred V. Kidder
30º - 1952, Cambridge
President: J. Eric S. Thompson
General Secretary: Hermann J. Braunholtz
31º - 1954, Sao Paulo
President: Paul Rivet
General Secretary: Herbert Baldus
32º - 1956, Copenhagen
President: Kaj Birket-Smith
General Secretary: Jens Yde
33º - 1958, San Jose de Costa Rica
President: Doris Stone
General Secretaries: Carlos Meléndez, Alvar Antillón
34º - 1960, Vienna
President: Robert Heine-Geldern
General Secretary: Anna Hohenwart-Gerlachstein
35º - 1962, Mexico City
President: Ignacio Bernal
General Secretary: Miguel León Portilla
36º - 1964, Madrid-Barcelona-Seville
President: Luis Pericot García
General Secretary: José Alcina Franch
37º - 1966, Mar del Plata
President: Alberto Rex González
General Secretary: Víctor A. Nuñez
38º - 1968, Stuttgart-Munich
President: Hermann Trimborn
General Secretary: Otto Zerries
39º - 1970, Lima
President: José Matos Mar
General Secretary: Fernando Fuenzalida Villamar
40º - 1972, Rome-Geneve
President: Ernesta Cerulli
General Secretary: Italo Signorini
41º - 1974, Mexico City
President: Guillermo Bonfil Batalla
General Secretary: Enrique Florescano Mayet
42º - 1976, Paris
President: Claude Lévi-Strauss
General Secretary: Jacques Lafaye
43º - 1979, Vancouver
President: Cyril Belshaw
General Secretary: Alfred Siemens
44º - 1982, Manchester
President: Harold Blakemore
General Secretaries: John Fisher, David Fox, David Preston
45º - 1985, Bogota
President: Rafael Rivas Posada
General Secretaries: Norah Rey de Marulanda, Jorge Orlando Melo, Marco Palacios, Manuel Rodríguez Becerra
46º - 1988, Amsterdam
President: Harry Hoetink
General Secretaries: Kees den Boer, Jan Kleipenning, Jan Lechner, Hans de Wit
47º - 1991, New Orleans
President: Richard E. Greenleaf
General Secretary: Munro S. Edmonton
48º - 1994, Stockholm-Göteborg
President: Magnus Moerner
General Secretary: Jan-Ake Alvarsson
49º - 1997, Quito
President: Hernán A. Andrade
General Secretary: Segundo E. Moreno Yáñez
50º - 2000, Warsaw
President: Andrzej Dembicz
General Secretary: Mariusz Ziólkowski
51º - 2003, Santiago de Chile
President: Luis A. Riveros Cornejo
General Secretary: Milka Castro Lucic
52º - 2006, Seville
President: Miguel Florencio Lora
General Secretaries: Antonio Acosta Rodríguez, María Luisa Laviana Cuetos
53º - 2009, Mexico City
President: Elio Masferrer Kan
General Secretaries: Elizabeth Díaz Brenis, Jorge Rene Gonzalez Marmolejo and Horacio Cerutti-Guldberg