CONFERENCE NEWS

EAA 2025 Call for Sessions Closed

The EAA 2025 Call for Sessions is now closed and the proposals are currently under review by the Belgrade Scientific Committee. Main session organisers will be notified of evaluation results by email by December 13
The Call for Contributions (papers and posters) will open on 20 December.
 
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EAA 2025 Call for Sessions Extended

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Sessions for the 31st EAA Annual Meeting in Belgrade is has been extended until 4 November 2024 23:59 CET.



The EAA submissions portal has been upgraded for 2025. Please review the guidelines and familiarise yourself with changes here.

2024 Annual Membership Business Meeting

Read the 2024 AMBM Reports and attend the AMBM on Friday 30 August at 18:45 onsite in Rome in building CU003, r. 6., or online at https:// us02web.zoom.us/j/82067266974 | passcode: 6848148

Student Award call for submissions

Submit before 1 August 2024
refer here for details

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Call for Posters closed

The Call for Posters for the 30th Annual Meeting in Rome is now closed. Poster abstract authors can expect to receive email notifications regarding evaluation results by 6 May.

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Paper Evaluation Results and Call for Posters

We are pleased to announce that we are in the final stages of the evaluation process for paper proposals for the 30th EAA Annual Meeting in Rome. Notification emails regarding results will be sent to main abstract authors on March 25 and 26.

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The Call for Posters for the 30th Annual Meeting in Rome is open until 8 April.

Submission guidelines >>

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EAA 2024 Call for Papers / Posters

The Call for Papers and the Call for Poster for the 30th EAA Annual Meeting are now open.

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EAA 2023 attendance confirmations

Session organisers and main authors can download their certificates in their profile in the submission system. Co-authors who attended the conference can request their certificates via email at helpdesk@e-a-a.org.

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You are warmly invited to attend the

2023 Annual Membership Business Meeting

to be held both onsite in Belfast and via Zoom on Friday 1 September, 18:45 BST. Refer here for details.
 

Preliminary scientific programme

The preliminary scientific programme (schedule of sessions), as well as updated list of accepted contributions is now available under the Scientific Programme tab.

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Call for papers EXTENDED

Call for papers for the EAA 2023 Annual Meeting in Belfast is extended to 13 February 2023. More information is available under the Scientific Programme tab at www.e-a-a.org/eaa2023.

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Results of the 2022 EAA evaluation survey

are available here

Call for sessions EXTENDED

Call for sessions for the EAA 2023 Annual Meeting in Belfast is extended to 14 November 2022. More information is available under the Scientific Programme tab at www.e-a-a.org/eaa2023.

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EAA 2022 Attendance confirmation

Session organisers and main authors can download their certificate(s) in the submission software. In case you need certificate as a co-author / attendee, please email us at helpdesk@e-a-a.org.

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Participate in survey

of the Duke University on conference attendance before and during the pandemic before 30 September

EAA 2022 Budapest CfP

Call for papers  has already closed. The results will be published by 23 March at Scientific Programme webpage.

Apply here.

Results of the 27th Annual Meeting evaluation survey

are available here

Zoom webinar with Háttér Society

Watch recording of the webinar with Háttér Society on LGBTQIA+ matters in Hungary on our YouTube channel here.

EAA 2022 Budapest Registration

The Annual Meeting (conference) registration  is now open. All delegates have to be current (2022) EAA members and pay the Annual Meeting registration fee. Please check the registration policy tab for more information.

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Safe Space Policy at EAA 2022

Please check 2020 EAA Gender Statement & our expanded ExB Statement and Safe Space Policy (updated on 15 November 2021), kindly supplied by our AGE Community. 

EAA 2022 - Call for sessions

Submitted session proposals are now evaluated by the Scientific Committee and the results will be available from 3 December here.

EAA 2022 Annual Meeting in Budapest

The Annual Meeting in Budapest, Hungary will be held from 31 August to 3 September 2022. Call for sessions is now open here until 11 November. 

Expanding Horizons: Decolonisation, Contested Ownership of Archaeological Material, and the 1970 UNESCO Convention on Cultural Property"

roundtable will be held on Monday 11 October 2021 at 4 pm CEST. The roundtable abstract and list of discussants is available here.

EAA 2021 ATTENDANCE CONFIRMATION

Session organisers and main authors can download their certificate(s) in the submission software. In case you need certificate as co-author / attendee, please email us at helpdesk@e-a-a.org. Those requests will be answered after 27 September - thank you for your patience.

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EAA 2021 Kiel Virtual Annual Meeting

You may download the Programme Book and the Abstract Book of 2021 Annual Meeting (6-11 September) here. To attend the meeting, you need to be current (2021) EAA member and register for the Meeting.

Preliminary schedule

The preliminary version of the EAA 2021 scientific programme is available here.

Call for papers

Call for oral and poster contributions for the virtual EAA 2021 AM is closed, we do not accept any late submissions. Thanks to authors of more than 2700 submitted contributions!

Call for volunteers

IMPORTANT - Virtual AM

The Kiel Annual Meeting will be virtual, not hybrid as originally hoped. Please find more information here.

AM recordings

Watch sessions / lectures from past EAA AMs here or at our Youtube channel. New videos added regularly, recordings of Virtual AM are now being processed.

EAA 2021 Annual Meeting

Call for sessions is closed - we have received 249 session proposals which are now evaluated by the ScC. Call for papers opens on 16 December 2020. Check EAA 2021 website for more info.

Registration

Registration for the Kiel Annual Meeting is open. All delegates have to be current (2021) EAA members and pay for AM registration. Please check the registration policy tab for more information.

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Search EAA Repository

The EAA Repository now contains all sessions and presentations accepted for the 24th EAA Annual Meeting in Barcelona. The content will be updated annually.
EAA NEWS
With great sadness we share the news of the death of

colin renfrew (1937 - 2024)


By Portable Antiquities Scheme from London, England - TVC June 2018, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=92157012

 
With great sadness we share the news of the death of

FRANCOIS AUDOUZE (1943 - 2024)

read obituary here

Françoise Audouze, 1943 - 2024 (Canal U/UMR Temps) 

 

new themes volume published

Check European policy and funding opportunities

download in pdf

Call for General Editor, European Journal of Archaeology

read details and apply by 1 December 2024

8th Notes and Records Essay Award

submit before 28 February 2025 following the details
 

NEW THEMES VOLUME PUBLISHED

 
Participate in the 

Survey on Field Safety: Middle East, North Africa, and Mediterranean Basin

before 10 November 2024 here
List of publications of the past surveys is available here

Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis Solicits Proposals for Topic of a Fall 2025 Design Workshop

read more here
 
With great sadness we share the news of the death of

Tim Darvill (1957 - 2024)

 

New EAA Website

We are pleased to announce the soft launch of the EAA new website. During the transition, both the old (current) and new sites will run in parallel for testing. After this phase, we will fully switch to the new platform.

Visit the new site at https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA_New and help us improve by completing the feedback survey at https://e-a-a.questionpro.com/weblaunch.

AMBM per rollam - vote by 20 September

read more here; if you have not received your credentials, contact helpdesk

European Archaeological Heritage Prize 2024

Heritage Prize 2024 recipients

EAA Student Award 2024

Student Award 2024 recipient
 

EAA Book Prize 2024

EAA Book Prize 2024 recipient
 

OMF Early Career Achievement Prize 2024

ECAP 2024 recipient
 

Results of 2024 EAA election

are available here
 

Europa Nostra 7 Most Endangered Programme 2025

read more and submit nominations by 15 September 2024
 

EAA COMMUNITY ON FORTIFICATION RESEARCH (COMFORT) ONLINE LECTURE

will be held on 20 June 14 - 16 CEST:

Henny Piezonka (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany):
‘The world's oldest-known promontory fort: Amnya and the acceleration of hunter-gatherer diversity in Siberia 8000 years ago’

For details and zoom link, read here

 

TEA PHOTOJOURNALISM COMPETITION

Are you TEA’s next photojournalist of the year? Submit one image (photo or drawing) in portrait format alongside a max 400-word text before 1 August 2024, and find out! More info here.

Read New Issue of TEA 80 - Spring 2024

  

EAA Book Prize 2024 Shortlisted

The Book Prize Committee has shortlisted six publications, read more here

NEW THEMES VOLUME PUBLISHED

 
Apply by 17 May to participate in workshop on 

urban adaptation to environmental change

Submit nominations for the

2024 European Archaeological Heritage Prize

before 1 July 2024. Read details here.
 
Submit nominations for the

2024 Early Career Achievement Prize

before 1 July 2024. Read details here.
 

Benchmarks for Archaeology and Heritage Protection 2024-2029

read more here
Participate in the 

STAIRCASE: Sustainable Working Conditions in Academia Survey

With great sadness we share the news of the death of

Chris Tilley (1955 - 2024)

Read a short remembrance here

 

EIGHTH ELEMENTS VOLUME PUBLISHED

Archaeology of the Roman Conquest
by Manuel Fernández-Götz and Nico Roymans
available open access until 22 March  
 

beware of phishing

Please disregard scam emails purportedly from Eszter Bánffy, the EAA President. The way to recognise them is to look at the sender's email address (@e-a-a.org is the genuine domain).

EAA STATEMENT ON THREATS TO ARCHAEOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARISING FROM THE ISRAEL/GAZA CRISIS

read here

 

SEVENTH ELEMENTs VOLUME Published

The Bell Beaker Phenomenon in Europe
by Marck Vander Linden

Mapping the Non-Governmental Heritage Sector in Central and Eastern Europe project

Take survey before 29 February 2024 here

 

EAA Community on Fortification Research (COMFORT) online lecture

will be held on 27 February:

Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay (Linnaeus University Kalmar, Sweden):
‘Crisis, conflict and climate: A new look on Iron Age ringforts on Öland, Sweden’

For details and zoom link, read here

 
 

Read New Issue of TEA 79 - Autumn 2024

  

EAA election 2024

The call for nominations by Members is now open  until 2 April - read details

 

threatened future of archaeology in Leipzig

read more and act here
 

EAA Book Prize 2024

Call for submissions / nominations is open by 29 February 2024. Find out more.

5th JOSEPH DÉCHELETTE EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY PRIZE

call for applications is open until 1 March 2024
 

Opportunity to film a documentary

read details here

 

Apply for the post of EJA Reviews Editor before 30 November

read details here

 

Check European policy and funding opportunities

download in pdf

Read New Issue of TEA 78 - Autumn 2023

  
The EAA will see a

change at the Finance Manager position

and therefore seeks suitable candidates here
 
The EAA congratulates the

winners of the 2023 TEA photo contest

 “Out of the comfort zone: Fieldwork in perspective”: Malene R. BeckAlicia Hernandez-Tortoles and Micaela Sinibaldi

Felipe Criado-Boado awarded Spanish National Research Prize


It is with great pleasure that we announce that Felipe Criado-Boado, former EAA president and director of Incipit-CSIC, has been awarded the Spanish National Research Prize 2023 (Premio Nacional de Investigación 2023).
Read more here (Spanish only).

With great sadness we share the news of the death of

Liv Helga Dommasnes (1949 - 2023)

 

European Archaeological Heritage Prize 2023

Heritage Prize 2023 recipients

EAA Student Award 2023

Student Award 2023 recipient

OMF Early Career Achievement Prize 2023

ECAP 2023 recipient

EAA Book Prize 2023 Winners

European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2024 

Call for nominations is open until 13 October
 

Europa Nostra 7 Most Endangered Programme 2024

Call for nominations is now open until 30 September
 

Results of 2023 EAA election

are available here

Protection and Care of Heritage in Poland

Despite the EAA Statement on the Protection and Care of Heritage in Poland, the  amendments to the Polish Act on The Protection and Care of Historical Monuments, 2003, will come into force in May 2024. TEA will feature further details in the upcoming issue.
With great sadness we share the news of the death of

Grégor Marchand (1968 - 2023)



Read obituary
 

2023 EAA election

Please vote before 1 September
Read details here

Read New Issue of TEA 77 - Summer 2023

  

With great sadness we share the news of the death of

Ana maria bietti sestieri (1942 - 2023)



Read a short memory by Kristian Kristiansen here
 

European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards

Winners for 2023 announced and call for entries 2024 open until 13 October 2023
 

EAA Book Prize 2023


The Book Prize Committee has shortlisted ten publications, read more here.

Organisations active in archaeology and heritage management  issued a joint

Position Statement: The War in Ukraine & Ukrainian archaeology

Read the statement here

EAA - ARWA MoU

The EAA and ARWA signed a Memorandum of Understanding

Read more

Research4Life

Access to peer-reviewed content for institutions in lower income countries, areas and territories
Read more

Read New Issue of TEA 76 - Spring 2023

  

With great sadness we share the news of the death of

David Fontijn (1971 - 2023)



Read obituary

TEA photo contest

OUT OF THE COMFORT ZONE: FIELDWORK IN PERSPECTIVE

Submit your photo or drawing before 1 August 2023 - read details here.

EAA Social Media Editor

The tender for the EAA Social Media Editor has been closed and the selection made according to the criteria available here. We thank all applicants for their interest.

Read New Issue of TEA 75 - Winter 2023

  

EAA statement on the aftermath of earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

read here

EAA election 2023

The call for nominations by Members is now open  until 3 April - read details

Data and Event Manager

We are looking for a a new Data and Event Manager for our Secretariat office based in Prague. For more information and application go to https://www.jobs.cz/rpd/1610534190/. Deadline: end January 2023.

New issue of EJA (26-1) now available

EAA Book Prize

Call for submissions / nominations is open by 28 February. Find out more.

Read New Issue of TEA 74 - Autumn 2022

  
The call for entries to the

European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards

is now open until 25 November

New job vacancies

More information on new job positions available here. Update 12 October 2022.

Sixth volume of the "Elements: Archaeology of Europe" series

Megasites in Prehistoric Europe by Bisserka Gaydarska and John Chapman has been published and is available for free online until 21 October here.

Learn more and subscribe to the newly established

EAA Community for Textile Archaeology and Conservation

2022 AMBM minutes

are available here

Results of the 2022 EAA election

are available to Members here

TEA photocontest

Are you TEA’s next photojournalist of the year? Submit one image (photo or drawing) in portrait format alongside a max 500 word text before 30 September, and find out! More info here .

EAA 2022 Annual Report

download in pdf
read more

Read New Issue of TEA 73 - Summer 2022

  

SAPIENS PUBLIC SCHOLARS TRAINING FELLOWSHIP

Apply for the fellowship program, which aims to provide in-depth training for anthropologists in the craft of science communication and public scholarship, before 15 July. More info available here.

Proclamation of the winner of the 4th Joseph-Déchelette European Archaeology Prize

read more

Save the Viking ships!

read more

Support staff of the Georgian National Museum

read more  
sign petition  

Read New Issue of TEA 72 - Spring 2022

  

Check European policy and funding opportunities

download in pdf

27 April 2022 6  - 7:30 pm BST

Free Open History Fundraising Talk – Gareth Jones & Ukraine

Read details...

Apply by 28 April to become

EAA youth delegate to the Conference of INGOs

Read more here  
The EAA is committed to the preservation of the integrity, authenticity and diversity of the rich

cultural heritage of Afghanistan

Given the current political situation, we appeal to governments, international organisations, NGOs and to our EAA corporate members to act as best they can to ensure that Afghanistan’s cultural heritage, and all those working to preserve it, are not forgotten by governments and agencies in their ongoing negotiations with the Taliban of conditions for foreign aid to Afghanistan. Finally, we offer our extensive heritage expertise and experience to contribute to the protection of the rich cultural heritage in Afghanistan.

EAA election 2022

Nominations by Members are accepted by 4 April, read more...

EAA for Ukraine

24 March 2022: The EAA is signatory to the Statement on Ukraine from Archaeological Organizations Worldwide
Read more...

ILUCIDARE Playground – Turning a new page for heritage

held on 22 April in Brussels and online - see www.ilucidare.eu for detail

Read New Issue of TEA 71 - Winter 2022

  

Call for experts as part of the Cultural Heritage in Action EU-funded Project

read more here

Tender for Themes in Contemporary Archaeology series (THEMES) Assistant

Read more and apply before 10 February



Read more here on

The European Archaeology Days

Please note that EAA Secretariat is closed from 23 December to 2 January.

Setting up of new Advisory Committees

Nominate candidates before 31 January 2022. Refer here for details.

New issue of EJA (24-4) now available

George Eogan (1930 - 2021)

With great sadness we share the news of the death of George Eogan.

Please provide feedback on The European Archaeologist (TEA) newsletter

here before 31 December

Invitation to tender to publish the European Journal of Archaeology (EJA)

read more

New THEMES volumes have been published

Please check all volumes here. Members can buy THEMES volumes at 25% discount.

Marie Zápotocká (1931 - 2021)

With great sadness we share the news of the death of Marie Zápotocká.

Read New Issue of TEA 70 - Autumn 2021

  

2021 Kiel Statement

on Archaeology and Climate Change has been approved by members. Please read the full statement here not only in English but also Spanish and Italian.

Results of the 2021 EAA Annual Membership Business Meeting

are available here

Results of the 2021 EAA election

are available to Members here

Past, Present, Future: Archaeological Climate Summit in Kiel

Refer to the

2021 AMBM Report

and attend the Annual Membership Business Meeting on Friday 10 September at 18:45 CEST

EAA Statutes amendments

proposed for approval at the 2021 Annual Membership Business Meeting

Read New Issue of TEA 69 - Summer 2021

  

Fourth volume of the "Elements: Archaeology of Europe" series

Salt. White Gold in Early Europe by Anthony Harding has been published and is available for free online until 4 August here.

Salt. White Gold in Early Europe

The Creation and Division of Wealth and the Long-term Consequences of Inequality: Views from Archaeology

Read more and apply before 23 July

Review the EAA strategic planning documents

and share your thoughts before 31 July

Read New Issue of TEA 68 - Spring 2021

  

Open letter to University of Sheffield

Current and Incoming Presidents of the EAA express their worries about the news that the University of Sheffiled is deeming the closure of its Department of Archaeology. Read more here.

Minutes of the re-run of the 2020 AMBM

are available here.

New European Bauhaus Prizes

Apply by 31 May 2021.

Invitation to the 2020 Annual Membership Business Meeting (AMBM) re-run

read further info

Third volume of the "Elements: Archaeology of Europe" series

Migration Myths and the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean by Bernard Knapp has been published and is available for free online until 13 April here  
Migration Myths and the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean

Tender for Editor of The European Archaeologist

read more and apply by 15 April

Early Career Archaeologists Community

invites you to fill in the Integration of Early Career Researchers in Archaeology survey.

EAA election 2021

Call for nominations by members is now open - read more

Read New Issue of TEA 67 - Winter 2020 / 2021

  

New issue of EJA (24-1) now available

EVŽEN Neustupný (1933 - 2021)

With great sadness we share the news of the death of Evžen Neustupný.

For older news, please continue to 2018 news and 2019-2020 news  .