The upcoming Joint Chapter Meeting of CAA Netherlands - Flanders and CAA Germany invites scholars, practitioners, and students to submit presentations that explore and push forward digital and quantitative methods in archaeology and cultural‑heritage management.
We welcome contributions on a wide range of topics: From digital documentation techniques such as 3‑D modelling, photogrammetry, and drone‑based surveying, to the design of databases, open‑data infrastructures, policy issues, and semantic‑web projects. Spatial perspectives are particularly valued, so submissions on GIS, landscape archaeology, and related spatial analyses are welcome. Studies using big‑data analytics, statistical or network‑based approaches, agent‑based simulations, predictive modelling, AI or other machine‑learning tools to reveal hidden patterns in the archaeological record are also encouraged. We also invite theoretical, conceptual, and critical reflections on the AI turn in our discipline.
In short, the Joint Chapter Meeting is meant to be a lively forum for sharing ideas, experiences and talking about everything digital in archaeology. Feel free to submit abstracts on projects that are planned, underway, or just finished—whether they’re research studies or theses. We’d especially love it if you could invite young scientists and researchers from related fields who collaborate with you to join us.
Please send your abstract (max. 250 words), including the author’s name, affiliation, and contact details,
to Jan Miera by email — jmiera(at)uni-muenster.de
Abstracts should preferably be written in English, but German and Dutch are also accepted. In the spirit of international exchange and collaboration we’d love you to communicate in English whenever possible. If giving a talk in English feels intimidating, we kindly ask you to prepare your slides in English so that your audience has a fair chance to follow and understand your key points.