UNDER THE GRACIOUS ROYAL PATRONAGE OF 
HIS MAJESTY KING ABDULLAH II BIN AL HUSSEIN OF JORDAN

Dead Sea - Jordan

January 14-18, 2013

On behalf of the Organising Committee of the Seventh World Archaeological Congress it is a great pleasure to invite colleagues from across the globe to come to the Dead Sea, Jordan from 14th-18th January 2013.

Theme titles are organized to complete the phrase: "Archaeology as..."

• Public: Education, Communication and Various Understandings of the Past
• Science and Technology: Methods, Analysis, and Tools
• Discussion and Debate: Ethics, Politics, and Engagement
• Understanding and Interpretation
• Heritage Conservation and Protection
• The Future: New Perspectives on the Past
• Business: Profitability and Sustainability of Cultural Heritage
• Economic Development: Community Engagement and Grassroots Movements
• Entertainment
• Open Access: Freedom of Information, Peer Review
• Identity Politics: Ethnicity, Nationalism, Globalization
• A Target: Preservation and Heritage Identities in Times of Conflict
• Indigenous
• Useful: Reintroduction of Ancient Techniques and Recovered Knowledge
• Sustenance: Foodways, Subsistence
• Discovery: Field Reports
• Answering the Big Questions
• Subjective

Important Dates

Academic Program
Proposals for themes: April 30th, 2012
Proposals for sessions: September 30th, 2012
Proposals for papers: October 31st, 2012
Proposals for posters: October 31st, 2012

Notification of acceptance of themes: June 1st, 2012
Notification of acceptance of sessions: October 30th, 2012 
Notification of acceptance of papers and posters: November 15th, 2012

Registration
Early registration: October 20th, 2012

Travel Support
Applications for travel support: 14 September 2012
WAC Travel Grant Committee decisions: September 30th, 2012

Visas
Visa applications for those who cannot get a visa from embassies in their countries (needs a scan of the first two pages of the passport): September 1st, 2012

Contact

For general information, please contact:
Mohammad Debajah, Congress Administration, Cultech, Amman, Jordan. 
Email: info1@cultech.org 

For information on accommodation, registration, sponsorship and exhibitions please contact:
Arwa Badran, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan. 
Phone: +962 5390 3333 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +962 5390 3333 end_of_the_skype_highlighting (ext 5214). 
Email: abadran@hu.edu.jo 

For poster related enquiries please contact:
Fatma Marii, Chair of Posters Committee WAC-7, Jordan Museum, Amman, Jordan.
Email: Fatma.Marii@JordanMuseum.jo

For information on submission of papers and scientific program, please
contact: 
Anne Pyburn, Chair of Scientific Committee for WAC-7, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405-7100, USA
Tel: +011-510-812-855-2563
Fax: 011-501-812-855-4358 
Email: anne.pyburn@googlemail.com

For registration and more details about the congress, please visit the site