This Radiocarbon special double issue is dedicated to the “6th International Radiocarbon and Archaeology” Symposium that took place in Paphos, Cyprus – a real Mediterranean crossroads. The conference demonstrated that the inter- and intra-disciplinary nature of radiocarbon and archaeology research is no longer limited to an “exchange” of samples and dates, but is rapidly becoming an integrated whole, with the same student or researcher working in both worlds: radiocarbon and archaeology.