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This Radiocarbon issue is dedicated to the Mortar Dating International Meeting (MoDIM), which was held at Bordeaux Montaigne University (France) on 25–27 October 2018. The conference continued a 10-year-old tradition of mortar dating workshops, and was attended by 41 participants from 11 countries, including chemists, physicists, crystallographers, archaeologists, historians and geologists. Such variety of backgrounds reflects the degree of interdisciplinarity that mortar dating has reached over the years in response to the inherent heterogeneity and complexity of lime binders and silicate aggregates. In addition, an entire session of the conference was devoted to luminescence dating, which has become a complementary method in mortar dating.