Come and meet us at the Society for East Asian Archaeology conference!

Tuesday 19th August 2025

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The 10th Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology is taking place in Aberdeen from the 19th-23rd August 2025. Our editor, Professor Robin Skeates, will be there from the 21st onwards, so come along to meet him and get your hands on on some Antiquity swag! More details can be found at SEAA10 Conference, August 19-23, 2025 | SEAA-web.org

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