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Experimental Archaeology Conferences

EAC Conferences

In 2006, an experimental archaeology workshop was organised at University College London. This was the modest start of an internationally frequented recurring conference on Experimental Archaeology. The conference is a low-budget, low-fees meeting, open to all people interested in experimental archaeology, from academia and from a crafts background, museum people and re-enactors.

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The next EAC conference will take place in Curitiba, Brazil from 12-16th May 2025

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Up until the conference in Dublin, the main organiser and host was a university, often with an archaeological open-air museum on the side, part of the excursion day. EXARC has been involved from the very beginning. 2012 – 2017, we had a dedicated conference website, administered by Dr Fillery-Travis who also managed much of the social media presence of the conference.

In 2018, the conference pages merged into the EXARC website. Here you will find a simple archive with all conferences and abstracts so far. Also, if a conference review exists, you will find them below. EAC conferences do not only have presentations of posters and papers. Often there is an excursion too as well as several workshops. These are not all mentioned in our online archive.

CityYearNoPapers / Posters / HotspotsParticipantsPublishedReview
London (UK)2006EAC111 / 033  
Exeter (UK)2007EAC212 / 278YES 
Edinburgh (UK)2008EAC313 / 060 YES (PDF)
Aberdeen (UK)2009EAC49 / 0? YES (PDF)
Reading (UK)2011EAC515 / 964  
York (UK)2012EAC612 / 1344 YES
Cardiff (UK)2013EAC719 / 15100YESYES
Oxford (UK)2014EAC815 / 870 YES
Dublin (IE)2015EAC921 / 28220 YES
Leiden (NL)2017EAC1031 / 30128YESYES
Trento (IT)2019EAC1146 / 32191YESYES
World Tour / Exeter2021EAC1298 / 32 / 3930,000 viewsYESYES
Toruń (PL)2023EAC1372 / 1261 / 8,800 views YES
Curitiba (BR)2025EAC14