AARG CONFERENCE 2013 in Amersfoort, The Netherlands

26-28 September 2013

The main theme of the conference will be to promote the use of remote sensing (aerial photography, airborne laser scanning, satellite) techniques in archaeological and landscape studies for research, heritage management and public dissemination.

The AARG conference is organized and hosted by DECARS and RCE.

The CAA Netherlands - Germany Joint Chapter Meeting 2012 - page has been updated with the abstracts and presentations. Check them out here.

Andrew Bevan (UCL) will provide a Keynote on the upcoming NPAP/ARCHON conference:

Island, Mainland, Coastland & Hinterland
Ceramic Perspectives on Connectivity in the Ancient Mediterranean

In the Doelenzaal, UB, University of Amsterdam

9.00- 10.00; Keynote Address: Andrew Bevan “Pottery, politics and persistent landscapes in the Mediterranean”

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/staff/bevan
http://npap.nl/

Registration for attendees is NOW OPEN.

Early Bird registration runs until February 7th 2013 (11:59pm GMT). Standard fees apply from February 8th 2013 (12:00am GMT). On line registration closes on March 24th 2013 (11:59pm GMT).

http://www.caa2013.org/drupal/registration

Next week, on Thursday the 6th of December the Digital Archaeology Group organizes the second DAG workshop of the academic year. Speaker of the day is Tijm Lanjouw, PhD at Leiden University, dealing with 3D modeling in archaeology.

On Friday 2 November the UISPP Commission IV organizes an international symposium entitled “New developments in the Application of Computers and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology”. Included are the following speakers: François Djindjian (Paris, France), Apostolos Sarris (Crete, Greece), Ladislav Šmejda (Pilsen, Czech republic), Jeroen De Reu (Gent, Belgium) and Hanna Stöger (Leiden).

New Developments in Archaeological Data Management, Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen (Netherlands), 30th November and 1st December.

www.caanl2012.nl

Update: time-table is available

The DAG is an interest group, open to all students and staff of archaeology. In the past year they organized a number of meetings where papers were presented and discussed. the coming academic year they will organize practical workshops. We will update our ´workshops´ page with more information.

In 2011 CAA was held in Asia for the first time, acting to engage Asian scholars, bring fresh perspectives and build new relationships. Continuing this globalisation, the CAA conference for 2013 will be held in Perth, Australia (the first time that CAA will be conducted in the Southern hemisphere), allowing colleagues from Oceania, the Indian Ocean and South East Asia to attend it.