The Young Researchers in Archaeology (JIA) meetings are scientific events whose main objective is to promote the contact, the discussion and the knowledge of the developed studies by non-doctorate students and researchers. The JIA’s eighth edition was organized by CHAM and IEM in Lisbon, at NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), on 21-24 October 2015. 

The JIA’s proceedings are now published under the title Between science and culture: from interdisciplinary to the transversality of archaeology. We shall highlight contributions in very topical areas such as the use of new technologies in order to process archaeological data, the role of heritage education and didactics in the presentation and diffusion of archaeology to the communities, but also some chronologically cross-cutting themes such as urban archaeology, maritime archaeology, landscape archaeology, microarcheology or zooarchaeology always with an interdisciplinary emphasis. Some other panels emerged relating to theoretical and practical issues in a chronological frame from Prehistory to the Early Modern Period, in which the analysis of material culture was particularly featured. 

The event and the current proceedings that now materialize it are an important step in the diffusion of pioneering works that apply the concepts of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, in order to make our culture and heritage relevant, present and socially indispensable. 

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