Abstrakt
This year the founding organisation of this journal, the World Archaeological Congress, celebrates its 30th anniversary. We look forward to greeting colleagues old and new from all across the world and at all stages in their careers in Kyoto from August 28th.
The resilience of the organisation over the past three decades is testimony to the need of the archaeological community worldwide for an organisation that reflects at once the diversity and the unity of our calling. The focus of WAC in emphasising the political and ethical role played by archaeology in the contemporary context has been especially important in the development of the discipline worldwide.
The WAC practice of taking its congresses to parts of the world major global conferences had until then rarely reached - Venezuela in 1990, India in 1994, South Africa in 1999, and Jordan in 2013 - has encouraged international collaborations between workers in very diverse territories, especially as represented in the publications that have emerged from those Congresses.