Debating Spatial Archaeology is the title of an International Workshop on Landscape and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology that will be held in Santander (Spain), in June 2012. The main aim is to provide a debate forum where archaeologists can discuss what space means in Archaeology, how it is perceived and interpreted by archaeologists, and why.

This exciting new postgraduate degree successfully connects archaeological theory and research with modern policy and practice in the management and conservation of landscapes, parks and gardens. It will provide a two-year, part-time route to a full University of Cambridge Master’s degree.

The MSt provides a systematic understanding of:

From May 28th to June 1st, 2012, the 39th International Symposium on Archaeometry, "50 years of ISA" will take place in the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

The 2nd Luminescence in Archaeology International Symposium (L.A.I.S. 2012) will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on September 5-7, 2012. It will be hosted by the Group of Applied Geochemistry & Luminescence on Cultural Heritage (GeoLuC), belonging to the Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear of Sacavém. This year there will be three themes:

CYTED program 2012 call is open from now until April 3rd. This year most funding will go to thematic networks related with the themes included in the 7 research lines currently open.

3D-COFORM: Tools & Expertise for 3D Collection Formation is an on-going project (2008-2012) funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme. Its general goal is to advance the state-of-the-art in 3D-digitisation and make 3D-documentation an everyday practical choice for digital documentation campaigns in the cultural heritage sector.

The book Teoría y paisaje: reflexiones desde miradas interdisciplinarias ("Theory and landscape, interdisciplinary musings"?, edited by Toni Luna and Isabel Valverde, has been published by the Observatorio del Paisaje de Cataluña and the Universidad Pompeo Fabra (ISBN 978-84-615-4911-5). The contents can be downloaded in the following link:

The enrolment process has begun for the second edition of the CSIC official postgraduate course with the name Modelado Conceptual para Patrimonio Cultural ("Conceptual modelling of cultural heritage"), offered in Spanish. This course is directed by César González Pérez, member of the CSD-TCP program, and organized by the INCIPIT (CSIC).

In September 19-22, 2012, the III International EARSeL Workshop: "Advances in Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management" will take place in Gent.