Call for Papers for the LSS Annual Conference on Friday 7th & Saturday 8th November 2025
The Lithic Studies Society will host its annual conference this year at Voluntary Action LeicesterShire in Leicester on the 7th-8th of November 2025.
Abstracts are welcome from independent or affiliated researchers at all career stages and on any topic related to lithic studies, including but not restricted to:
- – Studies of new sites and assemblages
- – New perspectives on old sites and assemblages
- – New methods/approaches to the study of lithic assemblages
- – Research involving assemblages recovered during commercial archaeological projects
- – New research on lithic technology
- – Experimental approaches to lithic studies
- – Public archaeology and outreach in lithic studies
Abstract guidelines:
Please provide an abstract of no more than 250 words. Please include author name(s) and abstract title exactly as you would like it to appear in the conference programme. Authors are also requested to provide three to five key words (indicating time period and geographic area if appropriate).
The deadline for abstracts is: Friday 1st July 2025. Email abstracts to conference@lithics.org. Please state whether your abstract is for a poster or paper presentation.
Please direct any further queries to conference@lithics.org as well.
Registration will open in August 2025. We look forward to welcoming you to this year’s conference.
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