SAfA 2025: 27th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists

The 27th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA 2025) will take place at the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal. The event, hosted by ICArEHB – Interdisciplinary Centre for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour, will be held from the 21st to the 26th of July 2025. The SAfA 2025 theme, “Crossroads through Time,” highlights the Algarve region of southern Portugal as a nexus of different cultures from across North Africa, Europe, and around the world, each of which have contributed to the region’s history, language, and culture over millennia. This theme underscores both the positive outcomes and challenges of living in multicultural societies—a topic of increasing importance today amid global issues that are displacing millions of people worldwide via climate change, economic hardships, and conflict. Organization for the SAfA 2025 meeting is being led by the Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behavior (ICArEHB). ICArEHB is an organization of over 100 researchers and Ph.D. students at UAlg dedicated to the study of the ecological, biological, and cultural coevolution of modern humans. Recognized with the highest evaluation from the Portuguese National Science Foundation in 2019, ICArEHB has since solidified itself as a new and upcoming frontrunner in European archaeological science with a global impact in the field of human evolution studies.