Sessions

TS - Theme Session - Cultural heritage experiences and community engagement through archaeometry

This special session explores how museums and cultural or scientific institutions can serve as visitor-centred platforms for interdisciplinary dialogue and innovative, yet rigorous, narratives. We invite contributions showcasing projects or best practices that engage broader audiences and creatively communicate the value of archaeometry. Relevant topics include communication strategies, objectives, challenges, and social or cultural impacts.

S1 - Field methods and remote sensing in archaeological science

This session welcomes presentations on archaeological science field methods including surveying and remote sensing techniques such as aerial survey, geophysical survey, surface survey, satellite imaging and LiDAR applications.

S2 - Dating methods

This session welcomes presentations on chronometric applications in archaeology (radiocarbon, dendrochronology, fission track, potassium-argon, luminescence, archaeomagnetic, U-series, etc) relating to artefacts, archaeological landscapes, food remains, shells and skeletal material.

S3 - Bioarchaeology and biomolecules

This session welcomes presentations on the molecular study of archaeological human, faunal, and plant remains. Research on organic residue in use wear is also included.

S4 - Material Culture 1 - Stone, pigments, plasters

This session welcomes presentations on the archaeometric study of stone (artefacts, including the obsidian ones, monuments, stone arrangements and megaliths) pigments, and plasters with a focus on spatial analysis and production technology to facilitate greater understanding of provenance, raw material preference and functionality.

S5 - Material culture 2 - Ceramic, vitreous materials

This session welcomes presentations on the study of ceramic and vitreous materials (including glass and glaze) with a focus on provenance, production technology and raw material trade.

S6 - Material culture 3 - Metals

This session welcomes presentations on the latest research in metal artefacts from archaeological contexts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, metallurgical techniques, material characterization, provenance studies, and the role of metals in past societies.

S7 - Human-environment interactions

This session welcomes papers that discuss the dynamic interplay between humans and the environments they have inhabited throughout the past, from deep time to the recent past. How have humans responded to climatic change, how did they adapt to changing environments and how did they modify their environments? This session embraces research from all fields of inquiry including palaeoclimatology, palaeoenvironmental sciences, geoarchaeology, palaeoecology, geomorphology, archaeobotany and zooarchaeology. This session especially welcomes papers incorporating traditional ecological knowledge from across the globe.

S8 - Digital tools for archaeometry

This session invites contributions that showcase digital tools and computational approaches designed to enhance the interpretation of scientific data in archaeometry. We are particularly interested in methods that help bridge the gap between data acquisition and historical understanding — including data integration platforms, modelling techniques, visualisation tools, and AI-assisted analysis. The aim is to explore how digital science can support more nuanced, reproducible, and interdisciplinary reconstructions of the past.