An afternoon break with an excursion is planned in the middle of the Symposium. During the excursion participants will be informed with the state of art of Maritime Archaeology in the Netherlands. It includes a visit to the conservation laboratories of the Institute for Maritime and Ship Archaeology and a visit to a replica of a East Indianan ship Batavia and it's wharf. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in special issues of two different journals. The local organizig committee is also grateful to the Editor of British Archaeological Reports who offered to publish the session dealing conservation science.
Papers given as oral and poster presentations are eligible for publication.
The submission of a paper for publicaton is optional. All papers undergo the process of refereeing in order to keep the standards at high scientific level. Guides for authors and details about submission of manuscript will become available in the web site of the symposium.