The meeting will be focussed around two broad themes.

Advancing method

The introduction of new techniques and the refinement of available methods allow us to ask new questions and probe existing ones with new depths or viewpoints.

Presentations within this theme will be primarily focussed on issues surrounding the development, refinement or questioning of analytical methods and the impact of these upon archaeological understandings.

Enhancing understanding

How can archaeomalacological data contribute to and enhance broader archaeological narratives?

Going beyond site-specific reports, how can archaeomalacology address higher-level issues such as mobility patterns, environmental change and human response, subsistence regimes, trade networks and the changes through time of humans as a species?

Presentations within this theme situate archaeomalacogical data and perspectives within the wider archaeological context.