The next Congress will be held on Nevis in 2024.

The 2022 Congress was held in Cuba from June 26 – July 3, 2022.

The 2019 Congress was held in Barbados from July 21 – 27, 2019.

Please check out the final commemorative programme here, including embedded press releases.

Minutes from the General Business Meeting

Conference Programme (Final Version – Updated July 25, 2019)

Please click here for abstract submission guidelines and other information.

The Congress of the I.A.C.A. is held every other year, normally in the last week in July, and is the primary venue for the presentation of recent archaeological work in the Caribbean. Typically papers are presented for 4-5 days and the conference concludes with an optional day-long field trip. Symposia have included such subjects as Preceramic Age, Ceramic Age, Historical Archaeology, Prehistoric Technology, Interaction, Adaptation and Movement, Physical Anthropology, Rock Art, Underwater Archaeology etc.

The congresses are tri-lingual (English, French and Spanish) with simultaneous translation provided.

• Martinique (1961)
• Barbados (1967)
• Grenada (1969)
• St. Lucia (1971)
• Antigua (1973)
• Guadeloupe (1975)
• Venezuela (1977)
• St. Kitts (1979)
• Dominican Republic (1981)
• Martinique (1983)
• Puerto Rico (1985)
• French Guiana (1987)
• Curaçao (1989)
• Barbados (1991)
• Puerto Rico (1993)
• Guadeloupe (1995)
• Bahamas (1997)
• Grenada (1999)
• Aruba (2001)
• Dominican Republic (2003)
• Trinidad (2005)
• Jamaica (2007)
• Antigua (2009)
• Martinique (2011)
• Puerto Rico (2013)
• St. Maarten/St. Martin (2015)
• St. Croix (2017)
• Barbados (2019)
• Cuba (2022)