Medieval Sessions at EAA 2024
The 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists is taking place in Rome at the end of the month (28-31 August). There are lots of medieval-themed sessions within the bumper programme, with 31 Medieval Europe Research Community-affiliated sessions taking place across the four days. If you’re heading to Rome or attending online, we’ve collated all the medieval sessions together into one handy table below! The full programme for the conference can be found here.
| Session Number | Title | Date | Time |
| 15 | United Europe of Things? Materialities Creating Medieval Ritual Landscapes c.1000-1550 | 29 August | 8:30-16:00 |
| 42 | Europe-South Asia Relations in the Medieval and Modern Periods | 29 August | 14:00-18:30 |
| 58 | Archaeologies of Global Outlands: Non-Agricultural Economies and Interconnected Societies | 29 August | 14:00-16:00 |
| 93 | Post-Earthquake Scenarios in the Classical and Medieval Periods: Archaeoseismology as a Tool for Investigation on an Urban and Architectural Scale | 29 August | 14:00-16:00 |
| 104 | Zoochanges: Animals as Proxies during Periods of Transition and Change | 29 August | 8:30-18:30 |
| 105 | How Were Medieval Towns in Europe Formed? Urban Settlements Between the Early and the High Middle Ages | 29 August | 8:30-13:00 |
| 301 | What is a Village? Collective Action, Settlement Patterns and Rural Communities | 31 August | 14:00-18:30 |
| 302 | Luxury – Standard – Poverty: Archaeology of Quality of Life in Medieval and Early Modern Towns | 31 August | 8:30-13:00 |
| 374 | From Lab to Field, from Vertical to Horizontal: New Approaches to the Use of Portable X-ray Fluorescence in Archaeology | 29 August | 8:30-13:00 |
| 387 | Archaeology and the Global Middle Ages: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Trajectories | 30 August | 14:00-18:30 |
| 395 | Old Stories and New Data on Slavs: How to Interpret the Genetic, Linguistic and Subsistence Shifts in Early Medieval Europe? | 31 August | 8:30-13:00 |
| 522 | Society in the Medieval Mediterranean (5th to 12th Centuries) through Archaeology of Death | 30 August | 8:30-13:00 |
| 538 | Contacts, Movements, Migrations in the Viking Age: Maritime Aspects of the Norse Expansion into the North Atlantic | 31 August | 14:00-16:00 |
| 542 | Medieval Sensorium: Exploring the Archaeology of the Senses | 31 August | 14:00-18:30 |
| 566 | Multiple Scales in the Manifestations of the Islamic | 31 August | 14:00-18:30 |
| 575 | Abandonment and Opportunities? Responses to the Late Medieval Desertion | 30 August | 14:00-16:00 |
| 600 | Churches as Resources for Society? Co-creating Knowledge and Capturing Social Value | 31 August | 8:30-10:30 |
| 626 | MERC Forum: Standing Ruined Buildings in Large Cities – A Burden or a Resource for Society? | 30 August | 16:30-18:30 |
| 629 | Living Through Crisis: Urban Household Archaeologies in the Medieval World | 29 August | 14:00-16:00 |
| 631 | “A Day Without Pottery is a Day Wasted” – Pottery Technology and Manufacture | 30 August | 8:30-16:00 |
| 643 | The Experience of Stone II: Sculpting Comparative Phenomenologies | 30 August | 14:00-18:30 |
| 971 | Health of Laboring Communities across Geographies of Work | 30 August | 11:00-13:00 |
| 1040 | Tracking Urban DNA: Unravelling the Rise and Fall of Towns and Cities | 30 August | 11:00-13:00 |
| 1052 | Reviewing the 2020 MERC Manifesto? Checking in on the Future Direction of Medieval Archaeology in Europe | 29 August | 16:30-18:30 |
| 1057 | The Mediterranean in Scandinavia? Imports and Trade during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period c.1000-1800 | 29 August | 16:30-18:30 |
| 1068 | Agrarian Change in the Medieval Mediterranean: Towards Holistic Archaeologies of Environmental Change | 30 August | 16:30-18:30 |
| 1076 | The Late Antique to Early Medieval Transition in Europe and North Africa: Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Migration, Mobility and Identity | 29 August | 8:30-13:00 |
| 1102 | Strategies to Rule Them All: A Transnational Analysis of Landscape Control and Scales of Power Between 5th-16th Centuries | 29 August | 8:30-13:00 |
| 1129 | Inclusive Archaeology: Practical Approaches to Heritage Participation | 29 August | 8:30-16:00 |
| 1144 | New Trends in Medieval and Modern Glass: Glass Centres, Production and Trade | 29 August | 8:30-13:00 |
| 1167 | Historical Archaeologies of the Coastal and Fluvial Anthroposphere? Landscapes and Structures, Combing Settlement Archaeology and Geosciences | 29 August | 14:00-18:30 |
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