Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting 2026

Thursday 23rd April 2026

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Society for American Archaeology

The 91st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) takes place from 29th April-3rd May 2026 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square in San Francisco, California. Antiquity is exhibiting there, so come along to see our editor, Professor Robin Skeates, get your hands on some Antiquity swag and learn how to publish in Antiquity.

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Aerial view of archaeologists excavating human remains in an indoor archaeological site

No great equaliser: young labourers hit hardest by Early Modern plague

Tuesday 14th April 2026

Examination of plague victims from a 17^th century AD hospital in Basel, Switzerland reveals the majority of those who died from the plague were working youths from lower social classes, showing how social status impacted disease mortality in the past just as much as it does today.

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Excavated stone tomb on the shore of a loch

From father to son: Scottish Neolithic tombs were used to trace kinship - including descent

Tuesday 14th April 2026

Ancient DNA analysis of individuals buried in chambered tombs from Early Neolithic northern Scotland finds some were closely related along the male line of descent, indicating paternal relatedness was an important social connection to the first Neolithic people in Britain and suggesting funerary landscapes were monumental signifiers of kinship and group identities.

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Aerial view of a green, coastal landscape. A large mound sits in the centre. Across the bay, more land is visible

Unearthing one of Scandinavia's oldest ship burials

Friday 10th April 2026

Archaeologists have uncovered one of Scandinavia's earliest ship burials at the monumental burial mound of Herlaugshaugen, Norway, pre-dating the Viking Age and indicating pre-Viking cultural connections around the North Sea.