Statement on the date-overlap between 8th World Archaeological Congress, Kyoto and 22nd European Association of Archaeologists Conference, Vilnius

WAC and EAA Executives

We the executives of the World Archaeological Congress and European Association of Archaeologists regret to inform you that the dates for the Eighth World Archaeological Congress, Kyoto (WAC-8 Kyoto) and 22^nd European Association of Archaeologists Conference, Vilnius (EAA-22) are overlapped; WAC-8 between 28^th August and 2^nd September 2016, and EAA-22 between 30^th August and 4^th September. We regret the lack of coordination that led to this date-overlap, and apologise for any inconvenience caused to our memberships and the world archaeological community. We will do our best to prevent this from happening again, and want to inform you that we have already started working together to set up a website featuring dates for archaeological conferences and events across the world.