Members of the NEOMATRIX team organized a session at this year’s meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA 2023) which was held at Belfast in Ireland on 30 August – 2 September 2023. Our session entitled “Neolithization of the Mediterranean: Integrated Approaches to Old Questions” included a total of ten paper presentations on this topic covering a broad array of disciplines including archaeology, bioarchaeology, archaeogenetics, biogeochemistry, archaeodating, and linguistics including four invited lectures by Prof. Yılmaz Selim Erdal, Dr. Eva-Maria Geigl, Dr. Alexei Kassian, and Dr. Agathe Reingruber.
