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7th Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference

Bringing together international researchers, practitioners and students in a diverse and interdisciplinary field, to facilitate discussion, stimulate research, and promote international scholarship.

Date/Time: 4 – 7 September 2017

Venue: Newcastle University

Developing International Geoarchaeology (DIG) is the title of a series of very successful international conferences.

The goal of DIG is to bring together a wide variety of international researchers, practitioners and students in this diverse and interdisciplinary field in order to facilitate discussion, stimulate research, and promote international scholarship in geoarchaeology. The conference is biennieal, having first been held in Saint John (New Brunswick, Canada) in 2005, followed by Cambridge (UK), McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), University of Tennessee Knoxville (USA), University of Basel (Switzerland) and Alghero University (Sardinia, Italy).

In 2017, the 7th DIG conference will be hosted at Newcastle University UK, organised by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology and the Great North Museum: Hancock, in association with the McCord Centre for Landscape and the Cluster for Interdisciplinary Artefact Studies.

More information is available on the conference website.