Late Antique Archaeology is organised by Dr Luke Lavan (University of Kent). Conferences are held at King’s College London, thanks to the collaboration of Dr Tassos Papapcostas (King’s).
The primary aim of the conference series is provide an international focus for late antique archaeology, where established academics and graduate students can meet to present new work on broad themes relating to late antique society – such as settlement, economy and technology. Papers presented at the conferences form the core of our double peer-refereed international annual Late Antique Archaeology, published by Brill: www.brill.nl/laa.
The title Late Antique Archaeology does not seek to exclude contributions by historians but only to identify with scholars interested in broad characterisations of society, more common in archaeology than history. The theme of the conference will rotate each year through major themes of historical research: settlement, economy, technology, social and political structure.
It is a secondary aim of the series to provide cheap access for graduate students to high quality international speakers. For this reason admission charges are kept as low as possible and the permanent venue is King’s College, London, which is uniquely accessible from the UK and Europe.
We look forward to meeting you at the conference soon.
Luke Lavan 13/02/2009
