YRA 2026
On 1 May 2026 abstracts (200 words maximum) are due for the 9th Workshop of Young Researchers in Archaeometry (YRA 2026), to be held on 28–30 October 2026 in Reykjavík, Iceland. Further information is available at https://www.yra-ecr.org/current.html.
POCA 2026
On 4 May 2026 abstracts (250 words maximum) are due for the 23rd Postgraduates in Cypriot Archaeology Meeting (POCA 2026), to be held on 11–13 November 2026 in Leiden, the Netherlands. Further information is available at https://sites.google.com/view/poca2026/home.
PEBA 5
On 15 August 2026 abstracts (ca. 500 words) are due for the 5th Perspectives on Balkan Archaeology: Tracking the Routes – Movements of people, goods and ideas in Southeast Europe during the Metal Ages (PEBA 5), to be held on 26–29 May 2027 in Tirana, Albania. Further information is available at https://pebasite.wordpress.com/. These key questions will be addressed:
• How did prehistoric communities shape and use landscapes to enable or facilitate mobility?
• What traces do patterns of movement leave in settlements and funerary landscapes or material culture in general?
• What impact did environmental changes – such as drying rivers, fluctuating lake levels, or abrupt tectonic events – have on mobility patterns?
• In what ways were natural features like streams, mountain passes, or plateaus intentionally used to organize movement through space or incorporated into mobility strategies?
• What factors encouraged mobility – and what limited it?
• Why were certain places used despite appearing “counterintuitive” or difficult to access – such as burial mounds on remote uplands with no obvious resources?
• What role did funerary landscapes play in mobility strategies, spatial perception and social representation?
• How did mobility patterns differ across major landscape zones – e.g. coastal areas, open plains, or mountainous regions?
• How did mobility vary by life stage – for example, between childhood and adulthood? What role did gender, status, and social function play in determining who moved and who stayed?
• What archaeological material or biological indicators can be used to reconstruct the mobility of individuals or groups?
• To what extent do technical-formal adaptations of objects reflect complex mobility processes?
• How may shifts in material culture, burial practices, social structure, subsistence strategies or settlement patterns mirror (or relate to) mobility and connectivity shifts?