The first CAA meeting was convened in 1973 at the University of Birmingham in England. For the first two decades, the organisation met annually in the UK. In 1992, the CAA conference expanded to continental Europe, meeting in Aarhus, Denmark, and thereafter other European cities. In 2006, CAA continued to grow internationally, holding its first meeting outside of Europe, in Fargo, North Dakota, USA. Since then, the CAA conference has also traveled to Asia and Australia. In 2020, the conference had to be cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the first time that an annual meeting has not been held since 1973. In 2021, CAA moved online, with the first virtual conference attracting more than 350 participants from around the world, followed by a hybrid conference Oxford, UK, in August 2022. In 2024, CAA met in the 22nd different country, when the conference was held in New Zealand.
Previous CAA Conferences
Meeting 51
- CAA2024: ‘Across the Horizon’, Auckland, New Zealand
Meetings 41 through 50
- CAA2023: ’50 Years of Synergy’, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- CAA2022: ‘Inside Information’, (Hybrid) Oxford, United Kingdom
- CAA2021: ‘Digital Crossroads’, Virtual Conference from Limassol, Cyprus
- CAA2020: Oxford, UK (Cancelled)
- CAA2019: ‘Check Object Integrity’, Kraków, Poland
- CAA2018: ‘Human History and Digital Future’, Tübingen, Germany
- CAA2017: ‘Digital Archaeologies, Material Worlds (Past and Present)’, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- CAA2016: ‘Exploring Oceans of Data’, Oslo, Norway
- CAA2015: ‘Keep the Revolution Going’, Sienna, Italy
- CAA 2014: ’21st Century Archaeology’, Paris, France
- CAA2013: ‘Across Space and Time’, Perth, Australia
Meetings 31 through 40
- CAA2012: Southampton, United Kingdom
- CAA2011″ ‘Revive the Past’, Beijing, China
- CAA2010: ‘Fusion of Cultures’, Granada, Spain
- CAA2009: ‘Making History Interactive’, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
- CAA2008: ‘On the Road to Reconstructing the Past’, Budapest, Hungary
- CAA2007: ‘Layers of Perception’, Berlin, Germany
- CAA2006: ‘Digital Discovery: Exploring New Frontiers in Human Heritage’, Fargo, North Dakota, USA
- CAA2005: ‘The world is in your eyes’, Tomar, Portugal
- CAA2004: ‘Beyond the artifact—Digital interpretation of the past’, Prato, Italy
- CAA2003: ‘Enter the Past’, Vienna, Austria
Meetings 21 through 30
- CAA2002: ‘The Digital Heritage of Archaeology’, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- CAA2001: ‘Archaeological Informatics—Pushing the Envelope’, Gotland, Sweden
- CAA2000: ‘Computing archaeology for understanding the past’, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- CAA1999: Dublin, Ireland
- CAA1998: Barcelona, Spain
- CAA1997: Birmingham, United Kingdom
- CAA1996: Iaşi, Romania
- CAA1995: Leiden, Netherlands
- CAA1994: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
- CAA1993: Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
Meetings 11 through 20
- CAA1992: Aarhus, Denmark
- CAA1991: Oxford, United Kingdom
- CAA1990: Southampton, United Kingdom
- CAA1989: York, United Kingdom
- CAA1988: Birmingham, United Kingdom
- CAA1987: London, United Kingdom
- CAA1986: Birmingham, United Kingdom
- CAA1985: London, United Kingdom
- CAA1984: Birmingham, United Kingdom
- CAA1983: Bradford, United Kingdom
Meetings 1 through 10
- CAA1982: Birmingham, United Kingdom
- CAA1981: London, United Kingdom
- CAA1980: Birmingham, United Kingdom
- CAA1979: Birmingham, United Kingdom
- CAA1978: Birmingham, United Kingdom
- CAA1977: Birmingham, United Kingdom
- CAA1976: Birmingham, United Kingdom
- CAA1975: Birmingham, United Kingdom
- CAA1974: Birmingham, United Kingdom
- CAA1973: Birmingham, United Kingdom