If you are attending EAA in 2023 and interested in archaeology and its public benefits, do come along to Session #568 "Beyond bean counting: Current, emerging and anticipated approaches to benefitting people and places through archaeology" - this short session (Friday 08.30-10.30) is convened by the new EAA Public Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC), and aims to engage the EAA hive mind in ensuring the public benefits of archaeology are recognised, appreciated and nurtured. There will be a few papers present the current aims of the PBAC and some key initiatives focussed on public benefit + (we hope) LOTS of discussion about how we should promote archaeology's wider benefits and support archaeologists who are helping archaeology to help people and places, anyone and anywhere!

Organisers: Carenza Lewis (University of Lincoln, UK) ([log in to unmask]); Tim Darvill (University of Bournemouth, UK) ([log in to unmask]); Christoph Rummel  (Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Germany) ([log in to unmask]); Almut Schülke (University of Oslo, Norway) ([log in to unmask])

Venue: Peter Froggat Centre Room 3012 and online live-stream 

Abstract: The benefits of archaeology to people and places are most easily (and therefore most often) measured in ‘bean counting’ financial terms, but this in no way represents their full range, actual and potential. Effective understanding, delivery, recognition, dissemination and nurture of the myriad benefits of archaeology is essential to sustaining a virtuous spiral in which these benefits can be ever more widely experienced, valued and supported.
The new EAA Public Benefits Advisory Committee aims to help archaeologists (1) respectfully, helpfully and constructively share archaeological knowledge and opportunities with wider publics; (2) advance knowledge and understanding of the ways and means by which archaeology benefits people and places; (3) share data, information and insights demonstrating the benefits of archaeology, so their multifaceted values can be recognised; (4) be alert and open to new opportunities to achieve, capture and understand the public benefit of archaeology in the future.
In order to help us achieve the above aims, we would like this session to review current work and ideas for the future, inviting contributions from EAA members across Europe providing insight and opinion on the following topics:
1. In what ways does archaeology currently benefit wider society in Europe and beyond and how are these benefits measured?
2. What are the commonalities and differences across Europe in (a) conceptualising and (b) delivering public benefit through archaeology?
3. In what ways has the capacity of archaeology to benefit people and places been affected by changing social, political and economic conditions in the 2020s?
4. What future problems, challenges and opportunities can be anticipated for those seeking to enable archaeology to be of greater benefit to society.  
5. How can information about archaeology as a public benefit best be disseminated to archaeologists and policy-makers within in and beyond the heritage sector? 

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