On
3‐5
March
2011 the 15th
annual Symposium
on
Mediterranean
Archaeology (SOMA
 2011) took
 place
at
Catania
University, Sicily.
Further
information
and
the registration
form
are
available at
 http://ml.ci.uc.pt/mhonarchive/archport/msg10207.html or
from
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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Papers
of
interest
to Nestor readers
included:

A.
Czeszewska,
"Wall
paintings
at
Neolithic
site
Çatalhöyük.
How
can
we
interpret prehistoric
art?"

C.
T.
Fontebrera,
"The
crocus
in
the
Aegean:
medical
and
ideological
symbolism
in
the women's
world."

D.
Sylviane,
"Reconstructing
the
Landscape
of
the
Dead.
Some Observations
on
the
Minoan Funerary
Space
in
the
Agiopharango
Valley
(South
Central
Crete)"

D.
Yılmaz,
"New Observations
on
the
Troy
I
Culture
in
the
Light
of
the
Some
Survey
Finds from
the Coastal
Troad"

E.
Ballan, "Studying
the
grey
ceramic
in
Adriatic
area.
First
data"

G.
Alberti,
"Material
Culture
and
People:
some
preliminary
results
of
the
study
of
the Aeolian
Middle
Bronze
Age
settlement
contexts"

G.
Baldacci,
"Room
CV
of
the
Acropoli
Mediana
at
Phaistos reconsidered:
some
observations about
architecture
and
function"

K.
Iren,
"Greek
Presence
in
Phokaia
in
Early
Iron
Age"

L.‐Concetta
Rizzotto,
"The
Legacy
of
Minoan
Past
in
Early
Iron
Age
Cretan
Burial
Customs"

L.
Bombardieri,
F.
Chelazzi,
and
G.
Dionisio,
"Excavations
at
Erimi‐Laonin
tou
Porakou (Lemesos,
Cyprus):
the
EC‐LC
settlement
and
cemetery
areas."

M. G.
Palmieri,
"Protogeometric
and
Geometric
pottery
from
Kos
Early
Iron
Age
necropolis revisited.
Some
features
of
the
local
ceramic
production."

N. Çınardalı‐Karaaslan,
"The
Late
Bronze
Age Sea
Trade in the
Light of
Panaztepe Glass Finds"

P.
Suchowska,
"Understanding
Cross‐Cultural
Communication
in
the
European
Bronze
Age"

R.
M.
Anzalone,
"Some
Considerations
on
the
Archaeology
of
Messarà
(Crete)
in
the
Early Iron
Age"