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Our new “Spotlight on ECAs” section showcases research conducted by early career archaeologists and gives some insight into their background and aspirations

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Early Career Archaeologists (ECA) is a Community of the European Association of Archaeologists

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Survey of ECAs outside academic archaeology – now open!

We welcome responses from archaeologists who do not work in traditional academic settings in archaeology, which might include, but are not limited to: commercial, contract, consulting, heritage, museums, and other specialist fields including post-excavation and associated laboratory or desk work as well as those who formerly worked in these settings but have left archaeology: Take…

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Take a few minutes to fill out our survey! (Link in Bio) Next up on out Meet The Team -series Our Meet the Team -series continues! Get to know our ECA team! “Archaeology is like trying to reconstruct what happened at a party that you were not invited to…” - Dr Vana Orfanou Our Meet the Team -series continues with the introduction of ECA’s chairperson Maxime! Ever struggled to get your work published as an early career archaeologist? Then tune in for our session 'Becoming a published archaeologist' at the EAA Conference in Budapest, jointly hosted by the ECA Community and European Journal of Archaeology. We are proud to present our first post of the ”Spotlight on” ECAs featuring Dr Daniël P. van Helden who is a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Leicester. Dr van Helden currently works on the Arch-I-Scan project, an AHRC funded initiative, which is developing an AI image classifier for Gaulish terra sigillata fragments. Get to know the ECA team!

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ECA is a grassroots initiative of the European Association of Archaeologists, designed to listen to, and communicate the issues that particularly affect early career archaeologists

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