Dear colleagues and friends,

We are very pleased to announce that the 18^th Conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany will be held in Lecce from Monday 3^rd to Saturday 8^th of June 2019.

The conference will be hosted at the University of Salento (https://www.unisalento.it/) in the heart of Lecce.

In order to organize our scientific activities during the week, participants are kindly requested to fill in the pre-registration form, with your personal information, a provisional title of your oral or poster presentation and the session you want to join before the 1^st of September 2018 (/ocs/index.php/iwgp2019/index/pages/view/pre-registration).

The forms will give us an indication of the number of potential participants and allow to draft a preliminary program that we will be posted on the web site together with a formal call for abstracts by the end of 2018. Acceptation of oral and poster presentations, information about inscription fees, social events, and details about the venue will be posted later.

For further information, please contact the organizing committee at iwgp2019lecce@unisalento.it

Yours sincerely,
The Steering Committee