Scientific programme
Session 1: Case studies of integrated multimethod prospection
- Site focus prospection
- Archaeological feedback from excavations
Session 2: Environmental studies, Landscape and Palaeolandscapes mapping
- Landscape archaeology
- Palaeolandscapes, buried landscapes; Underwater landscapes
- Prospection & environmental archaeology
- Soils and geochemistry
Session 3: Methods and innovations
- New field methods
- Hardware development
- UAVs
- Survey strategies
Session 4: Data processing, visualisation and analysis
- Data improvement and Visualisation
- Spatial analysis
- Automated data interpretation and classification
- Artificial Intelligence & machine learning
Session 5: Development-led prospection and Archaeological resource management
- Development-led prospection
- Management of archaeological prospection data
- Protection & monitoring of archaeological sites
- Community archaeological prospection
- From prospection to heritage tourism
- Archaeological prospection & countermapping
Session 6 (Poster-only): Learning from Failure: Pitfalls and "Bad Data" in Archaeological Prospection
- Failed or inconclusive surveys and what they reveal about method limits
- Misinterpretation and false positives/negatives in prospection data
- Equipment, site conditions and environmental factors
- Noise, artefacts and interference in geophysical datasets
- Lessons learned: methodological pitfalls and how to avoid them