Its aims are to encourage communication between these disciplines, to provide a survey of present work in the field, and to stimulate discussion and future progress.
[1] Its members created a dozen of National CAA chapters and special interest groups.
[2] CAA International publishes annual proceedings [3] and the Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology (JCAA).
Initially, it was a small group of archaeologists and mathematicians interested in computer applications and working in the United Kingdom (UK).
Past collections include: Over the years national and regional chapters have been established.