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Abbreviation | EAA |
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Formation | 1994 |
Type | Nonprofit |
Headquarters | Prague, Czech Republic |
Coordinates | 50°05′15″N14°25′17″E / 50.08750°N 14.42139°E |
Region served | Europe |
Fields | Archaeology, Cultural heritage management |
Membership | 3.973 (2023) |
Official language | En |
President | Eszter Bánffy |
Website | https://www.e-a-a.org |
The European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) is a membership-based, not-for-profit association, open to archaeologists and other related or interested individuals or bodies in Europe and beyond. It was founded in 1994 at an inaugural meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where its Statutes were formally approved, [1] and recognized by the Council of Europe in 1999. [2] EAA has had over 15,000 members on its database from 75 countries. EAA holds an annual conference (Annual Meetings) and publishes the flagship journal, the European Journal of Archaeology . The EAA also publishes an in-house newsletter, The European Archaeologist (TEA), and two monograph series (Themes in Contemporary Archaeology and Elements: The Archaeology of Europe). The registered office of the association is in Prague, Czech Republic.
The EAA offers Statutes, [3] Code of practice and Principles, [4] and code of practice for fieldwork training. [5] The EAA further promotes international cooperation though interactions with Affiliate Organizations. [6] In 1999, the EAA was granted consultative status with the Council of Europe, which in 2003 was upgraded to participatory status. [7]
The EAA is governed by an Executive Board elected by full Members of the Association. The Executive Board comprises three or four officers (president, incoming president, treasurer, and secretary) and six ordinary members. [8] The current president is Eszter Bánffy and former presidents include: [9]
The EAA awards prizes and honours relevant to its aims. These include the European Archaeological Heritage Prize, the EAA Student Award, the EAA Book Prize and Honorary membership in the EAA. [10]
The EAA instituted the European Archaeological Heritage Prize in 1999. An independent committee awards the prize annually to an outstanding individual, institution, (local or regional) government or a (European or international) officer or body [11]
A student award was instituted in 2002 and is awarded annually for the best paper presented at the EAA Annual Meeting by a student or an archaeologist working on a dissertation. [12]
The EAA annually awards the EAA Book Prize. [13]
EAA Book Prize winning publications:
The EAA inaugural meeting took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia in September 1994. The official first Annual Meeting took place in September 1995 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and an Annual Meeting has taken place every year since. The table below shows the Meeting locations and dates. [14]
Ljubljana, Slovenia | September 22–25, 1994 | |
1st | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | September 20–25, 1995 |
2nd | Riga, Latvia | September 25–29, 1996 |
3rd | Ravenna, Italy | September 24–28, 1997 |
4th | Gothenburg, Sweden | September 23–27, 1998 |
5th | Bournemouth, United Kingdom | September 14–19, 1999 |
6th | Lisbon, Portugal | September 12–17, 2000 |
7th | Esslingen am Neckar, Germany | September 19–23, 2001 |
8th | Thessaloniki, Greece | September 24–28, 2002 |
9th | Saint Petersburg, Russia | September 10–14, 2003 |
10th | Lyon, France | September 5–12, 2004 |
11th | Cork, Ireland | September 5–11, 2005 |
12th | Kraków, Poland | September 19–24, 2005 |
13th | Zadar, Croatia | September 18–23, 2007 |
14th | La Valletta, Malta | September 16–21, 2008 |
15th | Riva del Garda, Italy | September 15–20, 2009 |
16th | The Hague, Netherlands | September 1–5, 2010 |
17th | Oslo, Norway | September 14–18, 2011 |
18th | Helsinki, Finland | August 30 – September 1, 2012 |
19th | Plzeň, Czech Republic | September 4–8, 2013 |
20th | Istanbul, Turkey | September 10–14, 2014 |
21st | Glasgow, United Kingdom | September 2–5, 2015 |
22nd | Vilnius, Lithuania | August 31 – September 4, 2016 |
23rd | Maastricht, Netherlands | August 30 – September 3, 2017 |
24th | Barcelona, Spain | September 5–8, 2018 |
25th | Bern, Switzerland | September 4–8, 2019 |
26th | Virtual, online | August 26–30, 2020 |
27th | Kiel, Germany | September 8–11, 2021 |
28th | Budapest, Hungary | August 31 – September 3, 2022 |
29th | Belfast, United Kingdom | August 30 – September 2, 2023 |
30th | Rome, Italy | August 26–31, 2024 |
*31st | Belgrade, Serbia | August–September, 2025 |
*32nd | Athens, Greece | August–September, 2026 |
* Those marked with an asterisk are upcoming
The EAA publishes the quarterly European Journal of Archaeology (EJA), [15] originally the Journal of European Archaeology (1993–1997), the monograph series THEMES In Contemporary Archaeology, [16] Elements: The Archaeology of Europe series and an electronic newsletter, The European Archaeologist (TEA). [17] EJA is currently co-edited by Catherine J. Frieman and Zena Kamash.
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