By Emily C. Arauz , PhD Candidate Dept. of Archaeology and History of Art, Graduate School of Social Sciences & Humanities Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey Upon exiting the San Martiño Pinario Monastery conference hall on the final day of the NEARCHing Factory , a fellow attendee made the cursory remark to myself and a colleague that this will go down in history as one of those conferences where, years hence, everyone will be asking one another: “Were you at the Nearching Factory in Santiago de Compostela, January 30 th – February 1 st , 2017?” Fortunately, I was one of the lucky 96 attendees who took part in this unique experience over the course of two and a half rainy and cold days in the Galicia region of Spain. The meeting, deemed a ‘factory’, was a public and interactive component of the NEARCH ( New ways of Engaging audiences, Activating societal relations and Renewing Practices in Cultural Heritage ) project [1] , organized in coordination with INCIPIT, C...

We are very happy to announce the publication of AP: Online Journal in Public Archaeology  Volume 6 !  Migration to   Open Journal Systems  took some extra work and time but  w e hope you will like the new platform and enjoy the new volume! Yours, The editorial team Editors Jaime Almansa Sánchez , JAS Arqueología S.L.U., Spain Elena Papagiannopoulou , Independent Researcher, Greece Assistant Editors Amanda Harvey , NASA, United States Kaitlyn T. Goss , Americorps, United States Reviews Editor Alexandra Ion , McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge and Institute of Anthropology "Francisc I. Rainer" of the Romanian Academy, United Kingdom Assistant Production Editor Alejandra Galmés , Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain