European Association of Archaeologists

The European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) is a membership-based, not-for-profit association, open to archaeologists and other related or interested individuals or bodies in Europe and beyond. It was founded in 1994 at an inaugural meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where its Statutes were formally approved, and recognized by the Council of Europe in 1999. EAA has had over 15,000 members on its database from 75 countries. EAA holds an annual conference (Annual Meetings) and publishes the flagship journal, the European Journal of Archaeology. The EAA also publishes an in-house newsletter, The European Archaeologist (TEA), and two monograph series (Themes in Contemporary Archaeology and Elements: The Archaeology of Europe). The registered office of the association is in Prague, Czech Republic.

Mission
The EAA offers Statutes, Code of practice and Principles, and code of practice for fieldwork training. The EAA further promotes international cooperation though interactions with Affiliate Organizations. In 1999, the EAA was granted consultative status with the Council of Europe, which in 2003 was upgraded to participatory status.

Governance
The EAA is governed by an Executive Board elected by full Members of the Association. The Executive Board comprises three or four officers (president, incoming president, treasurer, and secretary) and six ordinary members. The current president is Eszter Bánffy and former presidents include:


 * Kristian Kristiansen (1994–1998)
 * Willem Willems (1998–2003)
 * Anthony Harding (2003–2009)
 * Friedrich Lüth (2009–2014)
 * Marc Lodewijckx - acting president (2014-2015)
 * Felipe Criado-Boado (2015–2021)
 * Eszter Bánffy (2021–2027)

Awards
The EAA awards prizes and honours relevant to its aims. These include the European Archaeological Heritage Prize, the EAA Student Award, the EAA Book Prize and Honorary membership in the EAA.

European Archaeological Heritage Prize
The EAA instituted the European Archaeological Heritage Prize in 1999. An independent committee awards the prize annually to an outstanding individual, institution, (local or regional) government or a (European or international) officer or body


 * 1999: M.M. Carrilho, Minister of Culture from Portugal
 * 2000: Margareta Biörnstad, former state antiquarian, Sweden
 * 2001: Otto Braasch, member of the Aerial Archaeological Group (AARG), Germany
 * 2002: Henry Cleere, ICOMOS Paris
 * 2003: Viktor Trifonov, Institute of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences in Sankt Petersburg
 * 2004: Illicit Antiquities Research Centre at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge
 * 2005: Kristian Kristiansen, Sweden
 * 2006: John Coles, UK
 * 2007: Siegmar von Schnurbein, Germany
 * 2008: Jean-Paul Demoule, France
 * 2009: Ulrich Ruoff, Switzerland
 * 2010: David John Breeze, Scotland
 * 2011: Girolamo Ferdinando, UK and Avvocato Francesco Pinto, Italy
 * 2012: Willem J.H. Willems, Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, Netherlands
 * 2013: M. Daniel Thérond, former Head of Department of the Culture, Heritage and Diversity Department, Council of Europe, and Vincent Gaffney
 * 2014: Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Erzsébet Jerem
 * 2015: María Ángeles Querol Fernández and Martin Oswald Hugh Carver
 * 2016: Unité d'Archéologie de la Ville de Saint-Denis and Caroline Sturdy Colls
 * 2017: Unità di Crisi e di Coordinamento Regionale Marche del Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo
 * 2018: Ivan Pavlů and Francisco Javier Sánchez-Palencia Ramos
 * 2019: Osman Kavala and Fundación Catedral Santa María, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque country, Spain
 * 2020: Gilly Carr and REMAINS of Greenland program and network; honorary mention to SARAT (Safeguarding Archaeological Assets of Turkey) Project and SPLASHCOS (Submerged Prehistoric Archaeology and Landscapes of the Continental Shelf)
 * 2021: Laurajane Smith, Citizens Committee of Ierapetra and SITAR – Sistema Informativo Territoriale Archeologico di Roma / Geographic Archaeological Information System of Rome; honorary mention to West Dunbartonshire Council
 * 2022: Sophia Labadi and AVASA/IIMAS - Engaging youngsters in cultural heritage: Urkesh One-on One program
 * 2023: Fedir Androshchuk and Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi, honorary mention to Arturo Ruiz Rodríguez and the International Organising Team of the First Kings of Europe exhibition

Student Award
A student award was instituted in 2002 and is awarded annually for the best paper presented at the EAA Annual Meeting by a student or an archaeologist working on a dissertation.


 * 2002 - Laura M. Popova
 * 2003 - Anita Synnestvedt
 * 2004 - Jonathan D. Le Huray
 * 2005 - Marta Caroscio
 * 2006 - NOT AWARDED
 * 2007 - Goce Naumov
 * 2008 - NOT AWARDED
 * 2009 - Pamela Cross
 * 2010 - Camilla Norman
 * 2011 - Heide Wrobel Norgaard
 * 2012 - Maria Leena Lahtinen
 * 2013 - Oliver Dietrich
 * 2014 - Can Aksoy and Ziyacan Bayar
 * 2015 - Patrycja Kupiec, and special commendation to Christine Cave and Alex Davies
 * 2016 - Sian Mui and Shumon Hussain
 * 2017 - Emma Brownlee and Yftinus van Popta
 * 2018 - Hanna Kivikero
 * 2019 - Annabell Zander
 * 2020 - Samantha Leggett, and honorary mention to Tomas Janek
 * 2021 - Karen O'Toole
 * 2022 - Paloma Cuello del Pozo
 * 2023 - Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer

EAA Book Prize
The EAA annually awards the EAA Book Prize.

EAA Book Prize winning publications:
 * 2023
 * The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology: Bioarchaeology of Mortuary Behaviour, Edited by Christopher Knüsel and Eline Schotsmans, Routledge 2022
 * April Nowell: Growing Up in the Ice Age: Fossil and archaeological evidence of the lived lives of Plio-Pleistocene children, Oxbow Books 2021

Annual Meetings
The EAA inaugural meeting took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia in September 1994. The official first Annual Meeting took place in September 1995 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and an Annual Meeting has taken place every year since. The table below shows the Meeting locations and dates.

* Those marked with an asterisk are upcoming

Publications
The EAA publishes the quarterly European Journal of Archaeology (EJA), originally the Journal of European Archaeology (1993–1997), the monograph series THEMES In Contemporary Archaeology, Elements: The Archaeology of Europe series and an electronic newsletter, The European Archaeologist (TEA). EJA is currently co-edited by Catherine J. Frieman and Zena Kamash.