The next Landscape Archaeology Conference will take place in Bamberg from 19 to 21 March 2026!
Quite many suggestions for sessions were made in the last weeks. Now the call for papers is open. We invite you to submit proposals for presentations and posters for the following sessions:
1. All the world’s a stage: Neolithic earthworks in Bavaria
2. From Point Clouds to Patterns: Machine Learning in Landscape Archaeology
3. Side effects from the construction of large linear infrastructure projects in Europe – chances for new insights on our landscapes
4. Phenomenology of Vertical Spaces: New perspectives on the archaeology of cliffs, shafts, and chasms
5. Marginal economies or economies on the margins?
6. Coastal landscapes through the ages
7. Landscapes of change: data, methods, interpretations
8. Exploring the Decolonisation Discourse in Mountain Landscapes: Rethinking Margins, Methods, and Meaning-Making
9. Settlement dynamics in floodplain landscapes
10. Modelling demography through archaeological data: from theoretical approaches to global case studies
11. Human versus non-human cultural landscapes
12. Abrupt Environmental Change of Human-Environmental Systems in the Sedimentary Records
13. Dynamic adaptations on dynamic landforms: Multidisciplinary perspectives on Quaternary populations
14. Re-discovering Mountainscapes: An interdisciplinary approach to mountainous areas
15. Terraced landscapes as longterm socio-ecological archives
16. Questing Beyond Reporting: Decolonial Approaches to Vulnerable Territories and Submerged Heritage
17. Living Landscapes: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Heritage and Environment in Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast and beyond
18. Tracing back historical land-use and its legacies: common insights and perspectives of landscape archaeology and historical landscape ecology
19. XXL Challenge: new power lines on old remains
20. The Future of Landscape Archaeology in the Anthropocene
21. Forests as Archives: Interdisciplinary approaches to explore the woodland geoarchaeological record
22. Geoarchaeology in Vertical Landscapes – Methods, Potentials, and Emerging Questions
23. Geospatial Analysis in Archaeological Heritage Management
24. Heterarchies in Rural Landscapes. Exploring asymmetric power relations from a diachronic perspective
25. Past and Present Perspectives on Geopolitical Landscapes
26. Spatial Approaches to Bronze Age Landscapes in the Mediterranean: Linking Archaeological Theory and Quantitative Methodology
27. In the grip of resources: Human presence in harsh environments – A case for the concept of the “resource-scape”?
28. Landscape Archaeology of Riverine Environments
29. Landscapes on the Border: (Public-) Archaeological Perspectives on Boundaries and Marginal Spaces
30. Manipulated and artificial bodies of water as archaeological landscape relics
31. What is the future of surface survey? Rethinking new and old methods for landscape archaeology
32. General session: project highlights
The Call for Papers closes on Friday, 31 October 2025.
Please include in your abstract:
- Name(s) and affiliation of all authors
- Contact email of corresponding / presenting author
- Session to which you wish to submit (number + title)
- Title (max. 20 words)
- Abstract text (max. 200 words)
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