CAA Australasia is the regional branch of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, taking in Asia, Australia, and the Pacific. CAA International is the premier international conference on digital archaeology, running continuously and publishing proceedings every year since 1973. CAA International has published the open access Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology since 2018.
CAA Australasia was established as part of the 2013 CAA International conference in Perth, Australia. Since then, we have held numerous workshops, talks, writing retreats, and conferences celebrating the work and research of archaeologists utilising digital methods from across the region. We hosted the 2024 CAA International conference in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. This was only the second time in the history of CAA that the conference has been held in the southern hemisphere and was the first time the conference was held in the Pacific.
CAA Australasia is a registered association in NSW.
Become a member of CAA Australasia
Membership of CAA Australasia is free. You can sign up to be a member here. We welcome all academics, professionals, and students with an interest in digital and quantitative methods in archaeology and who work or are based in the region.
Upcoming events
We are hosting our third online digital archaeology conference on Thursday 2 October to Friday 3 October. Registrations are now open over at Humanitix. Tickets are free.
This year’s conference will feature 20 talks from speakers from 7 different countries from across Australia, the Pacific, Asia and Europe. The conference will showcase projects that use a variety of data practices, digital tools, computational methods, and analytical techniques. A full list of speakers and abstracts is available here and you can access the full conference schedule here (correct as of September 25).
We are also excited to announce our keynote speaker, Brett Leavy (Bilbie XR Labs). More info about Brett and his keynote, Visualising Ancestral Futures, can be found here.
A full schedule for the conference will be released shortly.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about CAA Australasia, please contact us at: australasiacaa@gmail.com.
Committee 2025
Aleksandra Michalewicz (Chair), Emily Tour (Treasurer), Simon Wyatt-Spratt (Secretary), Frederick Hardtke, Andrea Jalandoni, Marcel Julliard, James Loftus III, John McCarthy, Corey Noxon, Michael Rampe, Katharine Watson
Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology | Special Collection | Computer applications and quantitative methods in Australasian archaeology
Editors | Dr Joshua Emmitt & Dr Matthew Meredith-Williams
This special collection brings together papers from the first and second conferences of the chapter which occurred in 2020 and 2021. The published articles discuss and exemplify 3D applications such as photogrammetry and virtual reality, including their analytical uses for further analysis. Examination of new LiDAR data for future spatial analyses is presented, as well as examples of the spatial analysis of past land use. Methods of data recording are also discussed in relation to FAIR principals. The publication of these topics in this special collection exemplifies the broad scope of research being undertaken by those involved in CAA Australasia.
All articles are open access and are available for free here.
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Previous Events
You can learn more about our past events here.
