In recent days, the annual conference of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) took place in Rome at Sapienza University (https://www.e-a-a.org/eaa2024). Our institute was well represented, both by organizing five sections and by numerous contributions and dozens of professional and friendly meetings. It is worth highlighting them.

Sessions:

#654 Centering the Object: Between Production and Consumption In Ceramic Studies
(C. Knappett, E. Paralovo, P. Rosell Garrido, A. Tsuvaltsidis)

#845 Trans-Adriatic Dynamics: Late Bronze to Early Iron Age Matt-Painted Pottery in the Southwestern Balkans and Southern Italy
(P. Pavúk, T. Krapf, F. Iacono, L. Berdnardo-Ciddio)

#934 Sacred Landscapes in Context: Creation, Development, and Conceptualisation
(A. Zapelloni-Pavia, E. Comes-Trinidad, F. Mazzilli, A. Terrier, M. Von Bechtolsheim)

#974 Metals and Metalworking II: Production and Technology
(M. Kmošek, M. Neis, R. Saage, S. Warmlander, H. Noergaard)

#1127 Places of the Living and Places of the Dead: The Relationship Between Settlements and Burial Sites in Central Asia
(L. Stančo, J. Lhuillier)

Papers:

Between the Lake and the Mountains: Socioeconomy of Early Iron Age Hilltop Sites in the Ohrid Lake Area (M. Šmolková)

Deciphering of Grinding-Milling Tools Use: Food Processing Activities at Middle Chalcolithic Güvercinkayasi, Central Anatolia (K. Doležalová et al.)

On the Way North, West, and East: Aegean Matt-Painted Wares in the Early Late Bronze Age (P. Pavúk et al.)

Rivers for the Living and Hills for the Dead? Re-Evaluating the Kurgan Mounds Occurrence in the Eastern Kugitang Piedmonts, Uzbekistan (J. Havlík)

Six Feet Under in the Steppe: Spatial Relation of the Settlements and Burial Grounds in Protohistoric South-Central Asia (L. Stančo)

From Settlement to Burial Ground: Transformation of a Medieval Site in Northern Tokharistan (L. Damašek)

Gypsum Plasters and their Properties: Preliminary Results of the Study on the Paphian Samples (Cyprus) (P. Pizzo et al.)