On 15 March 2024 abstracts (300 words) are due for the 2024 Spring Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA 2024), to be held in Faro, Portugal on 3-5 May 2024. Further information and the form for submission are available at https://aea24faro.icarehb.com/abstract-submission/. The themes of the conference will be: • Palaeolithic environments, subsistence, and diet • Agricultural origins and the earliest villages • Adaptations to coastal and wetland environments • Environmental impact of sustained human settlements • Human adaptations to extreme or arid environments • Cross-disciplinary research in environmental archaeology
TAG-US 2024
On 22 March 2024 session and workshop proposals (200 words) are due for the 2024 meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG-US 2024), to be held in Santa Fe on 21-23 May 2024. On 22 April 2024 abstracts for papers (150 words) are due. Further information and the form for submission are available at https://tagsantafe.com/.
AIA 2025
On 25 March 2024 (8 April with a late fee) submissions for colloquia, joint AIA/SCS sessions, and open-session papers and posters needing an early decision to acquire a visa or obtain funding are due for the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA 2025), to be held in Philadelphia, PA from 2-5 January 2025. On 5 August 2024 (19 August with a late fee) submissions are due for workshops, open session papers and posters, and any provisionally accepted colloquia that are resubmitting. On 1 November 2024 applications are due for Lightning Round and Roundtable submissions. Submission forms and further information are available at https://www.archaeological.org/programs/professionals/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/.
Archaeological Research Unit Public Lectures, Spring 2024
The schedule of lectures at the Archaeological Research Unit at the University of Cyprus has been announced for spring 2024. All lectures will be held at 7:30 PM (EET) virtually via ZOOM, with some in hybrid form (via ZOOM and at the ARU Lecture Room). Prior registration is required Further information and links to register are available at https://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2024/01/ARU_Lectures_S.S._2024.pdf. 5 February 2024: Σ. Χρυσουλάκη, “Ο χαρακτήρας και η δομή μιας ουτοπικής πολιτείας” 12 February 2024: Ε. Σιουμπάρα, “Κλασικά αναθηματικά μνημεία προς επανάχρηση στην Ακρόπολη: Νέες έρευνες” 19 February 2024 (hybrid): Y. Papadatos and T. Kalantzopoulou, “The mountains of Crete in the Bronze Age: Current archaeological approaches” 24 February 2024 (hybrid): Workshop by the EMA academic staff and researchers: “‘Το Έργον '23’ Ετήσια Ημερίδα για το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου το 2023” 26 February 2024 (hybrid): E. Walter-Karydi, “Lapide pingere: On the materiality of late Classical and Hellenistic mosaics” 4 March 2024 (hybrid): H. Shochat, “A new look on Late Bronze and Iron Ages ivory exchange: The case of the southern Levant” 11 March 2024 (hybrid): Σ. Χρυσουλάκη, “Ο χαρακτήρας και η δομή μιας ουτοπικής πολιτείας” 14-15 March 2024 (hybrid): Workshop organized by C. M. Donnelly and A. Georgiou, “Marks, Marketing and Markets: Investigating the intersection of marking practices and commercial strategies in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age eastern Mediterranean” 8 April 2024: A. U. Kordas, M. Rekowska, S. Popławski, and A. Brzozowska-Jawornicka, “A new Greco-Roman temple in Cyprus? A set of decorated stone details from the Latsithkia site: Reconstruction potential and research prospects” 15 April 2024 (hybrid): T. Hodos, “Eggstraordinary objects: Ostrich eggs as luxury items in the ancient Mediterranean” 20 April 2024 (hybrid): Workshop, “A unique monument at the crossroads of political transformation: Investigation and documentation of the Palaepaphos-Laona tumulus” 22 April 2024 (hybrid): Γ. Στρατούλη, “Ευρωπαίων η πόλις: Μια αναδυόμενη πόλη της Βοττιαίας”
The new Sphakia Survey website is now available at https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/collections/The_Sphakia_Survey_Internet_Edition/6816405. It includes all the images that were on the old site, now at high resolution; the Sphakia Survey video in digital form; some explanatory text; and pdfs of most if not all of the articles that have been published to date.
On 12 January 2024 abstracts are due for the 44th International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA 2024), to be held in Melbourne on 27-31 May 2024. Further information is available at https://arcas.org.au/isa2024.melbourne/. The sessions will be:
ASOR 2024
On 15 January 2024 proposals for new member-organized sessions and workshops (250 words) are due for the American Schools of Overseas Research Annual Meetings (ASOR 2024), to be held in Boston and hybrid format on 20-23 November 2024. The call for papers will be open 15 February – 15 March 2024. Further information is available at https://www.asor.org/am/.
SOMA 2024
On 22 January 2024 abstracts (1500-2500 characters with spaces) are due for the 25th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA 2024), to be held in Zadar, Croatia on 25-27 April 2024. Topics will include seafaring and navigation; ports and harbours; maritime cultural landscapes; material culture; research methods and tools, particularly those attempting to reconstruct the ancient trade in the Mediterranean and its maritime connectivity with the contributions of underwater or land archaeology; new ideas for the conservation and interpretation of cultural heritage; and related topics such as art history, numismatics, epigraphy as well as other topics that connected the Mediterranean world through the history. Further information is available at https://www.icua.hr/najava/call-for-applications-soma-2024-xxv-symposium-on-mediterranean-archaeology/15.
The Archaeology of Affluence
On 31 January 2024 abstracts (250 words) are due for an international conference entitled The Archaeology of Affluence: Comparative perspectives on surplus, wealth, and social organisation in pre-modern societies, to be held in Bologna, Italy on 8–9 May 2024. Abstracts should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Presenters are invited to offer their papers for publication in a peer reviewed proceeding of the workshop to be edited by the conference organizers, Santo Privitera, Francesco Iacono, and Palmiro Notizia. Suggested topics may include: • The roots of affluence: o Was it farming? o Was surplus available to communities with little arable land or placed next to the coasts and/or wetlands? o Was animal husbandry the key variable? o What strategies were groups of herders and farmers employing to overcome the dearth of resources and, in turn, create affluence? • The relationship between individual and community affluence: o How even was affluence distributed among populations? o Was this connected to an unbalance in social arrangements? o How is this unbalance (or lack thereof) translated in the archaeological record of the world of the living or the dead? o How was affluence made evident and communicated (e.g. by laying out monumental buildings and spaces, enlarging private dwellings, or furbishing tombs?) • The management of affluence: o Was affluence a multiplier of social complexity? o How were groups managing affluence? Through feasting practices and/or the destruction of wealth? o How far-reaching was the use of administrative tools aimed at bookkeeping (sacrificial or archival economies)? o In a wider perspective, what was the role played by the accumulation and storage of staples, on the one hand, and the production of high-status and precious artefacts, on the other? • The relationship between affluence and technology: o What were the means through which affluence was achieved and regenerated over time? (e.g., exploiting wetlands, farming practices, animal husbandry, metal mining, staple storage, special textile techniques, trade relationships) o What are its traces in the archaeological record (e.g., architectural monumentality, dining sets in precious metals, clay skeuomorphs, iconography)?
ATINER 2024
On 13 February 2024 abstracts (500 words) are due for the 22nd Annual International Conference on History and Archaeology: From Ancient to Modern (ATINER 2024), to be held by the History Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research on 3-6 June 2024 in Athens. Further information is available at https://www.atiner.gr/history.
ICAS-EMME 4
On 31 March 2024 abstracts (200-300 words) are due for the 4th International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (ICAS-EMME 4), to be held at the Cyprus Institute, in Nicosia, Cyprus on 15-18 May 2024. Further information is available at https://icasemme.cyi.ac.cy/.
