 | ICAP2027: 17th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection Masaryk university Brno, Czechia, September 6-11, 2027 |
| Conference web page | https://icap27.phil.muni.cz |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icap2027 |
| Conference program | https://easychair.org/smart-program/ICAP2027/ |
| Submission deadline | December 31, 2026 |
The Department of Archaeology and Museology at Masaryk University and the International Society for Archaeological Prospection (ISAP), together with their partners, are delighted to welcome you to the 17th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection (ICAP 2027), which will take place in Brno, Czech Republic, from 6 to 11 September 2027
- Conference Website: ICAP 2027 Conference Webpage
Submission Guidelines
Abstracts must be submitted in English and fulfill the following requirements:
List of Sessions
- 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
Committees
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to icap2027@phil.muni.cz