Ανασκαφή και Έρευνα ΧIV

On 1-2 June 2023 a conference entitled 14ο Επιστημονικό Συμπόσιο “Ανασκαφή και Έρευνα ΧIV: Από το ερευνητικό έργο του Τομέα Αρχαιολογίας και Ιστορίας της Τέχνης. Fourteenth Symposium “Fieldwork and Research XIV: The Work of the Sector of Archaeology and History of Art will be held in Athens. Further information is available at https://hub.uoa.gr/excavation-and-research-xiv/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=excavation-and-research-xiv. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
Κ. Κοπανιάς, “Νέα ευρήματα από την ανασκαφή στη θέση Μάρτσελλο της Παλαιπάφου (2021-2022). New Finds from the Excavation in Palaepaphos-Marchello (2021-2022)”
Γ. Παπαδάτος and Γ. Βαβουρανάκης, “Η Πανεπιστημιακή ανασκαφή στο Πλάσι Μαραθώνα το 2021-22. The Departmental Excavation at Plasi, Marathon, in 2021-22”
Ν. Πολυχρονάκου-Σγουρίτσα, “Ο Μυκηναϊκός οικισμός στους Λαζάρηδες Αίγινας. The Mycenaean settlement at Lazarides, Aegina”
Ά. Παπαδημητρίου-Γραμμένου, Π. Γεωργίου-Γκέκα, Πλ. Πετρίδης, Ε. Καρακίτσου, and Κ. Καλλιγά, “Πανεπιστημιακή ανασκαφή στο Κοτρώνι Καπανδριτίου 2005-2022: μια συνολική αποτίμηση. University excavation at Kotroni near Kapandriti 2005-2022: An overall assessment”
Γ. Βαβουρανάκης, “Η Πρώιμη και Μέση Εποχή του Χαλκού στην Κύπρο ως φαινόμενο ενός διακριτού τρόπου ζωής. The Early and Middle Bronze Age in Cyprus as a phenomenon of a distinct way of life”
Ι. Βοσκός, Δ. Κλουκίνας, and Ε. Μαντζουράνη, “Όψεις της διαχείρισης της τροφής στην προϊστορική Κύπρο: νέα δεδομένα από το ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα NCCP. Aspects of food management in prehistoric Cyprus: new data from the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Cyprus Project (NCCP)”
Γ. Σοφιανός, “Η οικιστική αρχιτεκτονική στη μινωική Κρήτη κατά την Προανακτορική περίοδο: αρχιτεκτονική μορφή, συγκρότηση και κοινωνική διάσταση. Domestic architecture in Minoan Crete during the Prepalatial period: Architectural form, composition, and social dimension”
Λ. Πλάτων, “Στεφάνες και δακτύλιοι στη Ζάκρο: μία προσπάθεια προσέγγισης ενός άγνωστου μέχρι σήμερα μινωικού συμβόλου με πιθανή πολιτικοθρησκευτική σημασία. Hoops and rings in Zakros: Approaching a hitherto unknown Minoan symbol with a probable religious/political significance”
Μ. Κυρίτση, “Ο πολύπλευρος χαρακτήρας των οικιακών ομάδων: μεθοδολογικές προσεγγίσεις και δείγματα μελέτης μέσα από την ανάλυση του ανασκαφικού περιβάλλοντος των νεοανακτορικών εγκαταστάσεων της μινωικής Κρήτης. The multifaceted character of the domestic groups: Methodological approaches and case studies through the contextual analysis of the Neopalatial sites of Minoan Crete”
Α. Μπαλιτσάρη, Δ. Φιλιόγλου, Μ. Γκούμα, Μ. Μέξη, Μ. Παναγοπούλου, Π. Πομώνης, and Γ. Στεργίου, “Η Μεσοελλαδική κατοίκηση στο Πλάσι Μαραθώνα μέσα από τη μελέτη του Μεγάρου Α. The Middle Helladic habitation at Plasi-Marathon through the study of Megaron A”
Β. Πετράκης, “Palais sans frontières: μια προσέγγιση στην έννοια της ‘επικράτειας’ στη ‘μυκηναϊκή’ πολιτική γεωγραφία. Palais sans frontières: An approach to the conceptualization of ‘territory’ in ‘Mycenaean’ political geography”
Μ. Τσαμπίρη, “Γεωμετρικοί σκύφοι από το κυκλαδονήσι της Θήρας: Τύποι, διακοσμητικά θέματα και επιρροές. Geometric skyphoi from the Cycladic island of Thera: Types, decorative themes and influences”
Ε. Γκίκα and Γ. Βαβουρανάκης, “Υλικά και άυλα τοπία στην αρχαιολογική έρευνα: Ο ρόλος των Συστημάτων Γεωγραφικών Πληροφοριών. Material and immaterial scapes in archaeological research: The role of Geographical Information Systems”
Χ. Θεοτοκάτου, “Όψεις της κοινωνικής και οικονομικής οργάνωσης των νοικοκυριών κατά την Υστεροκυπριακή περίοδο: η περίπτωση της Άλασσας. Aspects of the social and economic organization of households during the Late Cypriot period: The case of Alassa”
S. Ruzza, “Πέρα από τους ‘Αχαιούς’, τους ‘Αργείους’ και τους ‘Δαναούς’: μια μελέτη για τις τοπικές ταυτότητες στο Μυκηναϊκό κόσμο. Beyond ‘Achaeans’, ‘Argives’, and ‘Danaans’: A Study of Regional Identities in the Mycenaean World”

Ancient Sparta in the 21st Century: Recent Trends and New Developments

On 8-11 June 2023 an international academic, networking, policymaking and public engagement event entitled Ancient Sparta in the 21st Century: Recent Trends and New Developments will be held in Sparta, Greece in hybrid format. Further information is available at https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-arts/humanities/classics-and-archaeology/interational-spartan-studies-forum/index.aspx. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. Kolaiti, “Climate change and coastal landscape: Tracing ancient coastlines in the Laconic Gulf. Κλιματική αλλαγή και παράκτιο τοπίο: Ιχνηλατώντας τις αρχαίες ακτογραμμές στο Λακωνικό Κόλπο”
A. Darlas, “Caves of Laconia: arks of cultural heritage preservation and a source of sustainable economic development. Σπήλαια της Λακωνίας: κιβωτοί διαφύλαξης πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς και πηγή βιώσιμης οικονομικής ανάπτυξης”
A. Papathanasiou, “Cultural heritage, environmental responsibility, sustainable tourism and challenges: the case of the Mani. Πολιτιστική κληρονομιά, περιβαλλοντική ευθύνη, βιώσιμος τουρισμός και προκλήσεις: η περίπτωση της Μάνης”

Chryssi Island and the World of Littoral Archaeology

On 9-11 June 2023 a conference entitled Chryssi Island and the World of Littoral Archaeology: Contextualizing Island Research Around Crete will be held in Pacheia Ammos, Crete. Further information is available at https://instapstudycenter.net/2023/05/22/chryssi-island-and-the-world-of-littoral-archaeology-contextualizing-island-research-around-crete/. The program will be:
A. Knodell, “Comparative Approaches to Small Aegean Islands: From the Cyclades to Crete”
M. E. Alberti, T. M. Brogan, V. Apostolakou, and C. Sofianou, “Clay Weights as Net Weights? Reconsidering the Evidence from Pseira, Gournia, Kommos, and Chryssi”
M. Eaby, “Beyond Purple Dye: Investigating Other Industrial Activity at Chryssi”
S. C. Ferrence, C. Sofianou, P. P. Betancourt, A. Giumlia-Mair, K. Chalikias, and M. Eaby, “Long Distance Trade in Late Minoan IB: The Case of Chryssi Island in Southeastern Crete”
T. Kalantzopoulou and Y. Papadatos, “South Coast Networks in the Neopalatial: An Examination of the Level of Integration of Marginal Economic Zones”
Y. Papadatos, E. Koutouvaki, E. Nodarou, and P. Pomonis, “Ceramic Distribution and Networks of Interaction in the Littoral Southeast Crete: The Case of Granodioritic Pottery”
D. Mylona, “Insularity on the Table: Terrestrial and Marine Animal Resources on a Small Island
C. Henkel, E. Margaritis, and M. Ntinou, “Cultivating a Minoan Islet Settlement: Archaeobotanical Evidence from Building B1 at Chryssi”
A. Moniaki, M. Ntinou, M. Eaby, T. M. Brogan, C. Sofianou, and V. Apostolakou, “What’s for Dinner? Investigating Subsistence Strategies on the Island of Chryssi”
P. P. Betancourt and S. C. Ferrence, “Late Bronze Age Climate Change in Eastern Crete: Agricultural Practices and Sophisticated Water Management on Pseira Island”
T. M. Brogan, M. Eaby, C. Sofianou, K. Chalikias, F. McCoy, and V. Apostolakou, “How to Wet Your Whistle: Diachronic Strategies for Collecting Fresh Water on Chryssi”
C. Sofianou, L. Vokotopoulos, and T. M. Brogan, “Riding the Waves: The Maritime Sanctuary on the Islet of Amonachos Kavallos and Minoan Trade Routes”
V. Apostolakou, C. Sofianou, V. Zografaki, T. M. Brogan, M. Eaby, K. Chalikias,
P. P. Betancourt, L. Bonga, and A. Stamos, “Recent Investigations on the Small Islet of Dragonada, Siteia”
V. Zografaki, “Νησί των Αγίων Πάντων: μια γνωστή άγνωστη νησίδα στον κόλπο του Μεραμπέλου”
D. J. Stewart, “A Tale of Two Captains: Manias, Spratt, and the Maritime Cultural Landscape of Crete”
K. Chalikias, “Open to All or Access Denied? Some Thoughts on Accessibility, Heritage Management, and Sustainable Development of Insular Cultural Landscapes”

Capacity Studies

On 15-16 June 2023 a workshop entitled No Half Measures for Understanding Ancient Pots. Aims and Methods of Capacity Studies in the Mediterranean Bronze Age will be held in hybrid format at the École française d’Athènes with the support of the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the research laboratory ArScAn UMR 7041. Further information, including the Zoom link for remote attendance, is available at https://www.efa.gr/fr/manifestations-scientifiques/nos-anciennes-manifestations-scientifiques/2352-15-16-06-2023-workshop-capacity-studies-in-the-mediterranean-bronze-age. The program will be:
C. Donnelly and A. Georgiou, “Measuring Marks on Canaanite Amphorae?”
L. Bavay, “‘Canaanite’ Amphorae, Hieratic Jar Dockets and Measure Marks from Deir el-Medina: Reconstructing Economic Networks Between Egypt and the Levant in the Late Bronze Age”
C. Cateloy, “Measuring the Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean: Middle and Late Bronze Age Levantine Amphorae Under Study”
C. Pulak and R. Matheny, “Standardization of Canaanite Jars from the Uluburun Shipwreck”
R. Webb, “A Standard Pot for Dry Measures? Investigating an Unseen Type of Mycenaean Storage Jar”
F. Porta, “Interpreting Late Bronze Age Cypriot Pithoi from a Volumetric Perspective: A Reconsideration of their Use and Circulation Pattern”
S. Privitera, “From Capacity of Pots to Storage Behaviour: Storage Jars in Context at the Minoan Villa at Gortyna”
M. E. Alberti, “Plain Handless Conical Cups: Practices of Daily Measuring in Malia and Minoan Crete”
C. Sturge, “The Decorated Rounded Cup at Knossos: MM IIIA–LM IIIB”
K. Shelton and L. Kvapil, “How Many Kylikes in a Krater? Proportions and Provisions in Pottery Production at Petsas House, Mycenae”
L. Phialon, “Measuring Capacities of Late Bronze Age Kraters: New Insights into Consumption Practices in Aegean Funerary Contexts?”
C. Langohr and E. Tsafou, “Change and Continuity in Cooking Practices in Minoan Crete. A Diachronic Volumetric Analysis of the Traditional Tripod Cooking Pot”
B. Rueff, “Capacity and Illumination Duration: New Perspecties on Minoan Lamps and the Rhythm of Activities”
I. Valinoti, “Vessel Capacities and Perfume Production at the Palace of Pylos”

9th Sympozjum Egejskie

On 19-20 June 2023 the Sympozjum Egejskie. 9th Young Researchers’ Conference in Aegean Archaeology will be held in hybrid format at the University of Warsaw. Further information is available at https://www.archeologia.uw.edu.pl/en/sympozjum-egejskie-9th-conference-in-aegean-archaeology/. The program will be:
A. Mercogliano, “Coarse Ware from the Middle Helladic Settlement of the Trapeza: Overview of Shapes, Functions and Historical Development”
A. Wodzińska, “Importance of Aegean Pottery from Tell el-Retaba, Egypt”
C. Nuttall, “Sun, Spirals and Seafaring. Early Cycladic ‘Frying Pans’ in Context”
E. Kreuz, “Feeding Bottles in Early Mycenaean Greece”
S. Mills, “Mycenae and the Corinthia: Political Periphery or Active Agent?”
K. Dudlik and S. Vitale, “Marking Identity and Status: the Role of Anatolian and Near Eastern Sealstones from the Cemeteries of Eleona and Langada on Kos”
L. E. Alvarez, “Mediating Power in Sixteenth-Century BCE Mainland Greece: the Example of ‘Mirror Culture’”
P. Zeman, “House of the Rising Class: Contextual Re-Study of the Architectural Form and Socio-Economic Status of the Panagia Houses at Mycenae”
J. Maran, “Post-Palatial Tiryns and the Long Shadow of the Palatial Period”
C. Zikidi, “Mortality Salience and the Treatment of the Dead in South-West Messenia, from the Middle Helladic to the Late Helladic Period”
S. Crewson, “200,000 Years of History at Stelida, Naxos (Greece): the Challenges and Approaches to Writing Deep-Time Narratives”
L. A. Kvapil, “Late to the Agricultural Revolution: the Slow Adoption of Farm Technology in Mycenaean Greece”
T. S. Andreovits, “Miniature Bodies in Practice: the Embodied Performance of Everyday and Ceremonial Acts in Bronze Age Aegean Seal Imagery”
M. Lemke, “Stoned in the Bronze Age? The State of the Debate on Consumption of Narcotics in Minoan Crete”
P. Ramirez-Valiente, “Adorned Bodies in Clay: Decoration and Painting in Pottery and Clay Figurines in the Neolithic Aegean”
Y. de Raaff, “The Construction of the Menelaion Mansions: an Energetics Approach”
P. Yiouni and A. Panatsi, “A New Late Bronze Age Installation in Ioannina Basin, in Epirus—NW Greece”
A. Peterkov, “How to Approach Population Size Estimation for Sites along the East Aegean–West Anatolian Interface?”
L. Giorgi, “How many Weapons for the Palace? An Interpretation Proposal for the Use of ka-ko in the Pylos Linear B Tablets”
W. Jenerałek, “Interdisciplinary Research on Gold Mining at the Amalara Archaeological Site in Northern Greece—Final Result”
G. Di Lorenzo, “An Eye Single-Blade Bronze Axe from Achaia and the Possible Trading Circuits from Italy, Central Europe and Greece between the Last Phases of Mycenaean Palaces and the First Iron Age”
M. Łapińska, A Dualism of the Lily in the Aegean Seals. Ornament—Sign Concept”
J. Bobik, “Neither Frescoes nor Rock Reliefs: Zoomorphic Plastic Decorations on Pottery from Western Anatolia in the Second Millennium BCE”
N. Kouvalakis, “Assessing the Evidence for the Emergence of Social Inequality during the Neolithic: Case Studies from the Region of Modern-Day Greece”
F. M. C. Toscano, A. D'Izzia, and F. Lo Faro, “Metal Production as Evidence of Social Changes and Interaction between the Aegean World and Sicily in the Second Millennium BC”
E. Papathoma and I. Vrettou, “Traces of Milk in Two Mycenaean Cups from Glyka Nera, Attica”
N. Papakonstantinou and S. Triantaphyllou, “‘Bones on Fire’. A Re-Consideration of the Use of Fire on Human Remains in the Prehistoric Aegean”
A. Nafplioti and I. Serpetsidaki, “Dating the Use of Early Mortuary Contexts on Crete: Combined Relative Dating and Absolute AMS Radiocarbon Determinations”
S. Cushman, “When, Where, and Why? The Distribution of Chamber Tomb Groups in the Argolid in Chronological and Local Context”

New Materialism

On 22-24 June 2023 a conference entitled Resource – Event – Practice. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on New Materialism will be held in hybrid format within the framework of the Leibniz Science Campus "Resources in Transformation (ReForm)". Further information is available at https://reform.ressourcencampus-bochum.de/en/resource-event-practice/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
C. von Rüden and J. Jungfleisch, “Eventful Histories: Thoughts on the Material-discursive and Corporeal Becoming of ‘Aegean’ Wall-paintings in Tell el-Dab‘a/Egypt”

The May 2023 issue of Nestor (50.5) is available as a free download.

Italy and Cyprus in Antiquity

On 16-21 May 2023 a conference entitled Italy and Cyprus in Antiquity: A Fresh Look was held at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome, under the auspices of the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Rome. Further information is available at https://isvroma.org/en/2023/04/19/international-symposium-italy-and-cyprus-in-antiquity-a-fresh-look/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
A. Georgiou, “Contextualising Cypriot connectivity with Italy post-1200 BC”
F. Lo Schiavo and M. Perra, “Sardinia and Cyprus: an update”
S. Sabatini and M. E. Alberti, “Late Bronze Age textile production in the Terramare region, the Aegean, and in Cyprus: approaching differences and similarities”
M. Perna, “The corpora of Cypriot Syllabic scripts of the second and first millennia BC. An update on the publication”
M. Cultraro, “Decoupling connectivity and maritime mobility. Cyprus and Sicily in the Late Bronze Age”
A. Vanzetti, S. T. Levi, and D. Gullì, “The site of Cannatello (AG, Sicily, Italy) and the connectivity from Sardinia to Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age boom-and-crisis years (ca. 1400–1150 BC)”
L. Nigro, “Cyprus and Motya. Contacts and exchanges at the dawn of Mediterranean seafaring interconnections”

13th ICAANE

On 22-25 May 2023 the 13th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (13th ICAANE) will be held in Copenhagen. Further information is available at https://eventsignup.ku.dk/icaane13#. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
R. Özbal, A. Breu, H. Özbal, L. Thissen, A. Türkekul-Bıyık, and F. Gerritsen, “Pottery and Dairying in Neolithic Anatolia: The Case of Barcın Höyük, Turkey”
C. Scott and C. Luke, “Gods and the Machine: Structure-from-Motion Recording in the Excavation and Analysis of Ritual Caches from Kaymakçı, Western Turkey”
K. Kopanias, A. Georgiou, M. Iacovou, A. Hadjikoumis, L. Kassianidou, E. Margariti, E. Nikita, D. Papageorgiou, and G. Papasavvas, “New light on LBA-EIA Cypriot burial customs: two new burials from Palaepaphos (Kouklia-Marchello, Cyprus)”
D. M. Alberghina, “Reconstructing Metallurgical Horizons in LBA western Anatolia. Procurement Networks and Technological Strategies at the citadel of Kaymakçi”
S. Vilain, “From imitation to innovation: An insight on copies and local productions inspired by Cypriot wares in the Eastern Mediterranean during the 2nd millennium BCE”
M. Kibaroğlu and D. P. Mielke, “Archaeometric investigations on the production and distribution of Hittite pottery”
S. Günel, “The cultural development of Çine-Tepecik and the reflection on Aegean archaeology”
F. Meneghetti, “The world is a small place: an interdisciplinary approach to the study of miniature pottery from Athienou-Bamboullari tis Koukounninas (Cyprus)”
M. Bowers, “Tracing Textiles and Trade in the Aegean and Near Eastern Late Bronze to Early Iron Age Transition”
J. Muñoz Sogas, “Hybrid religions in the Eastern Mediterranean: Egyptian and Phoenician conceptions in Greece”
F. Meneghetti and E. De Benedictis, “Ex charta lux: a multidisciplinary study of the excavations of Enkomi (Cyprus)”
K. Soennecken, “Tracking down ‘Sea Peoples’ far away from the Mediterranean Cities. The(im)possibility of finding ethnicity in archaeological evidence”

EMAC2023

On 14-16 June 2023 the 16th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics (EMAC2023) will be held in Pisa, Italy. Further information is available at https://www.emac2023.it/home/index.php. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
I. Caloi and F. Bernardini, “Micro-CT scanning of Minoan vases from Phaistos, Crete. Preliminary results on ceramic forming techniques of the Middle Bronze Age”
C. Burke, V. Testolini, V. Xanthopoulou, and I. Iliopoulos, “What Makes a Classic? Continuity of raw material procurement and ceramic fabrics in Pheneos, from the Bronze Age to the Classical Period”
S. Menelaou, O. Kouka, E. Kiriatzi, N. Müller, and C. Gardner, “Characterising pottery production and importation in Early Bronze Age Troy: petrographic and geochemical analysis”
B. Lis, A. Batziou, J. H. Sterba, and H. Mommsen, “Pottery of Argive provenance in coastal Thessaly during the Late Bronze Age according to Neutron Activation Analysis”
S. Menelaou, E. Marzec, F. Georgiadis, S. Katsarou, A. Siros, and A. Darlas, “Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery consumption at Agriomernos Cave, Samos (Greece): compositional analysis and provenance determination”
R, Klöckl and V. Testolini, “Copy and Paste. Technological choices and skills adaptation in Pheneos, Arcadia”
A. Barouda, P. Quinn, N. Efstratiou, “Technologies and Traditions of Pottery and Plaster Production at Neolithic Makri, Thrace, Greece”
T. Ogawa, S. N. Müller, H. Procopiou, S. Triantafyllou, S. Andreou, and E. Kiriatzi, “Cooking ware at prehistoric Toumba Thessaloniki: an indicator of continuity in potting tradition and culinary practice”
M. Giobbe, E. Kiriatzi, I. Lemos, N. Müller, M. A. Di Vito, S. De Vita, T. E. Cinquantaquattro, and M. D’Acunto, “Human mobility and technological transfer between Greece and Southern Italy: the cases of Pithekoussai and Cumae. Project outline”

The April 2023 issue of Nestor (50.4) is available as a free download.

New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium

The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium has announced the updated schedule of lectures during the remainder of spring 2023. The lectures will take place on Zoom and begin at 12 pm EST. Further information is available at https://nyabac.tumblr.com/.
Thursday, 6 April 2023: N. Abell, “An Exploration of Mechanisms of Interaction and Exchange in the MBA–LBA Cyclades”
Tuesday, 18 April 2023: J. Soles, “The Rise and Fall of a Rich Minoan Town in Crete: 50 Years of Greek-American Collaboration Excavating at Mochlos”

ICAP 2023

On 28 March – 1 April 2023 the 15th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection: Advances in On- and Offshore Archaeological Prospection (ICAP 2023) will be held in Kiel, Germany. Further information is available at https://www.icap2023.uni-kiel.de/en. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Sarris and T. Strasser, “Investigating the sedimentary fillings of Megalos Peristeres Cave, Rethymno, Crete, through GPR techniques”
A. Sarris, K. Hatzigiannakis, and D. Panagiotopoulos, “The contribution of geophysical and spectral imaging techniques in the archaeological investigations of Minoan Koumasa”

SAA 2023

On 29 March – 2 April 2023 the Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting (SAA 2023) will be held in Portland, OR. Further information is available at https://www.saa.org/annual-meeting. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
D. Pullen, “Taking the Palace out of Palatial Control”
K. Grossman and T. Paulette, “Society against the State in Prehistoric Cyprus? Exploring the Politics of Village Life”
D. Pollard, “Peaks Above, Plains Below: The Deeper Context of Settlement Patterning in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Crete”
A. Simmons, “The Hippos Who Would Not Die: Akrotiri Aetokremnos, Cyprus, and a Scientific Dilemma”
A. Brysbaert, “A Moving Taskscape in the Late Bronze Age Argolid, Greece”
C. Hastorf, “Forensic Culinary Archaeology: Seeking the Longevity of Recipes and Their Flavors from Crete”
F. Dibble, “Formation Processes and Biases in Big Data”

CAA 2023

On 3-6 April 2023 the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods to Archaeology Conference: 50 Years of Synergy (CAA 2023) will be held in Amsterdam. Further information is available at https://2023.caaconference.org/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
R. Rivers, H. C. W. Price, P. Gheorghiade, V. Vasiliauskaite, A. Diachenko, T. Evans, and F. Rossi, “Minoan Assemblage Distributions and Machine Learning”
P. Cuthbertson, P. Tsakanikou, S. Kübler, and N. Galanidou, “Landscape Heterogeneity at the Acheulean Site of Rodafnidia (Lesbos, NE Aegean): Connecting sites and continental models through intermediary scales”
E. Mavros, “Gaming as a Guide to the Past Environments: A Gentle Assistance to Landscape Archaeology in Palaepaphos, Cyprus”
C. Safadi, “Establishing the guiding principles for maritime heritage data and databases in the eastern Mediterranean: initial review of feasibility and potential”
K. A. Crawford, G. Artopoulos, and I. Romanowska, “Does economic exchange drive settlement persistence patterns? Simulating patterns between Cyprus and the Levant during the Late Bronze Age”
P. Gheorghiade and C. Spencer, “Travelling the wine dark sea – Networks of Mobility in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean”
A.-M. Xenaki, “Point Process Modelling of human-landscape relations in Eastern Crete”
P. Kyriakidis and E. Gravanis, “A Framework for Modeling/Simulating Controls, Patterns and Consequences of Maritime Human Mobility Potential in Early Prehistory”

The March 2023 issue of Nestor (50.3) is available as a free download.

Goneos Award

On 31 March 2023 applications from young researchers are due for the second year of the Petros D. Goneos Memorial Award for Studies on the Culture of the Cyclades ($5000) for the academic year 2023-2024; on 14 April 2023 letters of recommendation are due. Further information is available at https://cycladic.gr/en/page/chrimatiko-epathlo-sti-mnimi-petrou-d-goneou. The Goneos award seeks to encourage, support, and promote high quality research from new researchers who focus on topics related to the culture of the Cyclades from the Neolithic up to the post-Byzantine period or its perception to the modern times, approached through disciplines as archaeology, anthropology, and art history, as well as natural and physical sciences. Innovative and pioneering approaches, collaborative, interdisciplinary projects, and the use and development of information technologies are encouraged. Applications should:
• Outline clearly and in detail how this award will enable the proposed research and lead to its completion.
• Demonstrate how the outcomes of the project are expected to contribute to the field by filling research gaps and promoting further research.
• Demonstrate the capability of the researcher/s to achieve the proposed outcomes. This can be proven through past academic achievements, prior publications, and reference letters.

AIA 2024

On 27 March 2023 (10 April with a late fee) submissions for colloquia, joint AIA/SCS sessions, and open-session submissions needing an early decision to acquire a visa or obtain funding are due for the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA 2024), to be held in Chicago, IL from 4-7 January 2024. On 7 August 2023 (21 August with a late fee) submissions are due for workshops, other open session papers and posters, and any provisionally accepted colloquia that are resubmitting. On 1 November 2023 roundtable proposals and lightning session submissions are due. Submission forms and further information are available at http://www.archaeological.org.

Social Groups and Production in Mycenaean Economies

On 24-25 February 2023 the Spring 2023 Langford Conference entitled Social Groups and Production in Mycenaean Economies was held the Department of Classics at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Further information is available at https://classics.fsu.edu/spring-2023-langford-conference. The program was:
D. Pullen, “Elites and non-elites in Mycenaean economies”
D. Nakassis, “Reading between the lines: textual evidence for socioeconomic organization in the Mycenaean world”
J. Driessen, “A House Divided? Social structure before, during and after the Mycenaean administration at Knossos”
S. Voutsaki, “Kinship and the roots of inequality in pre-palatial Laconia”
M. L. Galaty and W. A. Parkinson, “Not a Great Kingdom: Mycenaean Economic Variation as a Measure of Nonintegration”
S. C. Murray, “Mycenaean Economic Institutions, Expensive Exchange, and the Theory of the Firm”
T. F. Tartaron, “Social Groups in the Mycenaean Maritime Economy”
N. Abell, “Crafting communities and constellations of practice: An exploration of production and exchange networks in the earlier LBA southern Aegean”
K. Shelton, “Petsas House: potters, the workshop, and ceramic production in Mycenae’s society and economy”
A. Dill, “Craft Industries at Kalamianos”
P. M. Day and E. Kardamaki, “Potting Communities during the Mycenaean Palatial Period”

3rd Radiocarbon and Diet Conference

On 22 February 2023 abstracts (250 words maximum) are due for the 3rd Radiocarbon and Diet Conference, to be held at the University of Oxford on 20-23 June 2023. Further information is available at https://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/radiocarbon-and-diet-2023. The sessions will be:
• Reservoir effects: current challenges
• Diet reconstruction: from modelling to diet, chronology and mobility
• Compound specific approaches
• Diachronic change in subsistence practices and high resolution approaches
• Chronology of domestication
• Chronology of dietary practices
• Radiocarbon and diet in ecology and forensics

Borders in first millennium BC Crete

On 20-21 January 2023 an international interdisciplinary workshop entitled Borders in first millennium BC Crete was held in hybrid format in Athens, hosted by the Italian and Belgian Schools at Athens. Further information is available at https://www.ugent.be/lw/archeologie/en/news-events/events/borders-in-crete-2023. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
V. Antoniadis, “Harbours, Roads, Satellite Data and the Borders of the Harbour at Heraklion”
D. Pollard and T. Whitelaw, “Settlement, Demography and Subsistence at First Millennium BCE Knossos in its Central Cretan Context”
A. Kotsonas, “Borders, Territories, and Archaeological Regions in Ancient Crete”
J. Bonetto and A. Bertelli, “Borders and focal points in Gortyn at the beginning of the first millennium BC”
E. Pappalardo, “Non-material borders in Iron Age Crete”

2nd MAGG

On 26-27 January 2023 the 2nd Meeting of the Archaeobotany in Greece Group (2nd MAGG) was held in hybrid format in Thessaloniki. Further information is available at https://edae.hist.auth.gr/index.php/diaxysi/archaeobotany-group-2nd-meeting. The program was:
M. Ergun, E. Gkatzogla, M. Ntinou, M. Charles, and A. Bogaard, “The recent archaeobotanical results from the Neolithic lakeside settlement of Dispilio (Kastoria): Insights from Uncharred and Charred Plant MacroRemains”
M. Kokkidou, “Charred plant remains from the fifth millennium B.C. at Dikili Tash (sector V)”
E. Gkatzogia and A. Karathanou, “Subsistence and dietary habits in Late Bronze and Iron Age central Macedonia: an archaeobotanical approach”
T. Maltas, “New archaeobotanical research in Aegean Turkey: initial insights into agrarian lifeways and urbanisation over the longue durée”
E. Margaritis and C. Henkel, “Cyprus and Crete in the Bronze Age”
E. Gkatzogia, “Archaeobotanical and ethnographical research in Therasia, Cyclades”
K. Tsirtsi, C. Henkel, J. J. García-Granero, E. Margaritis, E. Elston Alphas, and D. Pilides, “Macro- and micro- botanical remains hand in hand: the cases of two Bronze Age Cypriot sites”
G. Kasapidou, G. Tsartsidou, C. McNamee, and S. M. Valamoti, “A microbotanical approach to crop processing practices: evidence from Neolithic settlements in northern Greece”
T. Papadakou and G. Tsartsidou, “Using phytoliths to talk about potters”
S. M. Valamoti, S. Michou, and C. Petridou, “Exploring the plant foods of ancient Greece in the context of PlantCult: Integrative approaches”
S. M. Valamoti, “Presentation of PlantCult book: Food Crops of Ancient Greece”
G. Tsartsidou, “Roofs under the microscope: Identifying the organic materials through phytolith analysis”
P. Theodosaki, “Τhe structural use of wood in the Late Bronze Age site of Rema Xydias of Pieria, Greece: an anthracological study”
M. Ntinou, “Woodlands and wood use around the Thermaic Gulf in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages”
A. Mavromati, “Wood charcoal macroremains from the Heraion on Samos”
L. Picornell-Gelabert and A. Livarda, “Trees, fuel and forests at Palaikastro: an anthracological and archaeobotanical approach”
C. Pagnoux, V. Bonhomme, L. Bouby, S. Ivorra, S. E. Allen, and S. M. Valamoti, “How to distinguish wild and domesticated grape pips: comparison of morphometric methods and insights into early viticulture in Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece”
A. Livarda, H. Orengo, P. Aliende, T. Baniou, C. Diffey, A. Kriti, I. Mylonas, E. Ninou, F. Riso, and P. Vandorpe, “Archaeobotany and computational archaeology synergies: from prehistoric Aegean to Roman Europe”
A. Kriti, A. Livarda, and H. Orengo, “3D GMM Applications on Modern Experimental Cultivations’ Botanical Assemblage”
C. Diffey, “DarkSeeds: Investigating the nature of Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age agricultural economies in the Aegean through the use of stable isotope analyses and 3D morphometrics”

The January 2023 issue of Nestor (50.1) is available as a free download.

ASOR 2023

On 15 January 2023 proposals (250 words maximum) for member-organized sessions and workshops are due for the American Schools of Overseas Research Annual Meetings (ASOR 2023), to be hosted in Chicago, IL from 18-21 October 2023 (online) and 15-18 November 2023 (in person). From 15 February 2023 the Online Abstract Management System will open for paper submissions. On 15 March 2023 abstracts (250 words maximum) for paper and workshop presentation proposals are due without a late fee; on 1 April 2023 abstracts for paper and workshop presentation proposals are due with a late fee of $25. From 1 May to 1 August 2023 submission of poster proposals will be open. Further information and submission forms are available at http://www.asor.org.

State of the Field 2023

On 16 January 2023 abstracts (350 words) are due for a conference entitled State of the Field 2023: Archaeologies of the Mediterranean, to be held on 14-15 April 2023 by the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Providence, RI. Further information and the link to submit abstracts are available at https://blogs.brown.edu/archaeology/workshops/sotf2023/. Topic areas might include, but are not limited to:
• Literary form and discourse (e.g., rhetorical style, topoi, aesthetics, translation)
• Impact and relevance to issues of social hierarchy and political legitimacy
• Pictorial art: spatial depth, relief sculpture, horror vacui, etc.
• Resource management, regional interdependence, and cultural exchange
• Fabrication of origin myths (e.g., prehistoric migrations, genealogies)
• Growth and decline of political and cultural systems
• Influence on agricultural practices, technologies, and systems of land tenure
• Philosophy and ethics (e.g., moderation, luxury, poverty)
• Methodological or metadisciplinary reflections (e.g., fragmentary evidence)

Unsung Pioneer Women

On 20 January 2023 abstracts (500 words maximum) for proposals for biographic communications (15-20 minutes) are due for a workshop entitled Unsung Pioneer Women in the Archaeology of Greece, to be hosted on 8 March 2023 by the École française d’Athènes. Further information is available at https://www.efa.gr/fr/manifestations-scientifiques/appels-a-communication/2275-appel-a-communication-colloque-unsung-pioneer-women-in-the-archaeology-of-greece. Following the workshop, a compendium of short biographies (ca. 2000 words each) will be published in the Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique in the form of a collective article written jointly by all participants in the workshop.

Abundance and Scarcity

On 23 January 2023 abstracts (500 words maximum) are due for a graduate student conference entitled Abundance and Scarcity in the Ancient Mediterranean World, to be held on 7-8 April 2023 by the Harvard Department of the Classics in Cambridge, MA. Further information and the link to submit abstracts is available at https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/news/call-papers-2023-graduate-student-conference. Suggested themes can include, but are not limited to:
• Diversity – How has the field fared in diversifying its participants at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels? This can include topics of gender, class, race and any other background. Have we succeeded in teaching and researching more diverse subjects that better account for ancient realities? What remains to be done?
• Definitions – How do we define our field of study? What is its geography, chronology, and cultural scope? What subjects should we include, and what theories and methods should be used? How do we fit into current academic and university structures? Why does US academia not have Archaeology departments anymore? What are the consequences of this departmental division and what can we do about it? What do we have in common with other fields, and what is unique about our own?
• Relationships – How do we relate to non-academic structures, especially State-run or commercial (i.e., rescue or preventative) archaeology? What role do foreign schools and institutions serve in forming these relationships? How do we engage responsibly with local communities in the places where we conduct fieldwork?
• Historiography – How have the last two centuries (or more) of archaeological practice shaped the modern field, and should they be maintained or discarded? Have we done enough to examine and change the colonial foundations of the discipline? What can we do better?
• Responsibilities – How do we communicate the significance of our field to the public, both at home and abroad? What role does public archaeology play in our field? How has pedagogy changed, and how might it change further? What role do museums and archaeological parks play in our public relationships? How should items and exhibits be displayed?
• Narratives – How has our field shaped knowledge of the past? Are current practices changing narratives? What existing narratives remain to be challenged?

ICAZ 2023

On 21 February 2023 abstracts are due for the 14th International Council for Archaeozoology Conference (ICAZ 2023): Oceans and Coastline – Past, Present and Future, to be held on 7-12 August 2023 in Cairns, Australia. Further information is available at https://www.icaz2023.org/. Conference themes will be:
• Dynamic Landscapes, Dynamic Cultures
• People and Animals in the Social World
• Science and Zooarchaeology
• Coastal and Maritime Connections

Relations between the Indus and the Aegean in the Bronze Age

On 3-4 December 2022 an international workshop on Relations between the Indus and the Aegean in the Bronze Age was held at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. Further information is available from Prof. Robert Arnott at robert.arnott@gtc.ox.ac.uk. The program was:
S. Ratnagar, “Old Assumptions Die Hard”
R. Arnott, “Crossing Continents: between the Indus and the Aegean in prehistory”
G. Ludvik and J. M. Kenoyer, “Indus-Aegean Interaction in the third millennium BCE: a comparative analysis of Indus style carnelian beads in the Aegean, the Near East and the Indus”
S. Ferrence, A. Giumlia-Mair, P. Betancourt, and M. Tsipopoulou, “The Junction Point: New Evidence for Long Distance Trade between Minoan Crete and the East”
M. N. Pareja, “Polyvalent power and Bronze Age Ideologies: goddesses of paradoxical duality”
M. Porter, “The iconography of game animals in Afro-Eurasia”
A.-E. Kechagias, “The ancient views of India and Ethiopia as evidence for intercultural contacts between Bronze Age India and the Mediterranean”
C. Schwall, M. Numrich, and E. Pernicka, “Early Bronze Age Gold Finds in the Aegean, Anatolia and beyond: a marker for increasing social complexity and connectivity”
P. Stockhammer, A. Scott, and C. Warinner, “Evidence of long-distance movement of food between South Asia and the Southern Levant in the second millennium BCE”
S. Muthukumaran, “The Eastern Milieu of the Gilgamesh Epic”
S. Durnford, “Assessing the limited linguistic evidence”

Πρωτοπόροι της Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας

On 14-15 December 2022 a workshop entitled Ηeinrich Schliemann, Χρήστος Τσούντας, Παναγιώτης Σταματάκης. Πρωτοπόροι της Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας was held at National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Further information is available at https://www.namuseum.gr/new/imerida-quot-protoporoi-tis-proistorikis-archaiologias-sto-ethniko-archaiologiko-moyseio-quot-15-dekemvrioy-2022/. Tapes of the lectures will be available at https://www.blod.gr. The program was:
J. Davis and S. Stocker, “Standing on the Shoulders of Which Giants?”
Κ. Νικολέντζος, “Η Γένεση της Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας στην Ελλάδα – ιστορικό πλαίσιο και ιδεολογικά προτάγματα”
Γ. Βαβουρανάκης and Ι. Μπούζα, “Πρωτοπορία και μεταιχμιακότητα: η μυκηναϊκή αρχαιολογία στα τέλη του 19ου και στις αρχές του 20ου αιώνα”
N. Vogeikoff-Brogan and Ε. Δαλέζιου, “Το αρχείο του Ερρίκου Σλήμαν στα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα: διαφύλαξη, συντήρηση, πρόσβαση και μετάβαση στον ψηφιακό κόσμο”
M. S. Bertram Scheibe, “The influence of Rudolf Virchow on Heinrich Schliemann’s Excavation and Research Methods”
Χ. Τσέλιος, “Heinrich Schliemann – Χρήστος Τσούντας. Πέρα από τη μορφή. Η πρώιμη περιπέτεια της Αρχαιομετρίας στην Ελλάδα του 19ου αιώνα”
Μ.-Ξ. Γαρέζου and Α. Χατζηδημητρίου, “Γύρω από τον Παναγιώτη Σταματάκη: Οι περιπέτειες ενός αρχαιολόγου και η περιπλάνηση των καταλοίπων του”
Ν. Βασιλικού, “Από τον εμπειρισμό στη μέθοδο”
Α. Παπαδημητρίου, “Οι έρευνες του Ερρίκου Σλήμαν στην Τίρυνθα”
Β. Πλιάτσικα, “Ανακτώντας τον χαμένο χρόνο. Νέα πολύτιμα τεκμήρια της δράσης του Χρήστου Τσούντα στις Μυκήνες”
Ε. Κωνσταντινίδη, “Το ανασκαφικό ημερολόγιο Μυκηνών του Παναγιώτη Σταματάκη και η πολύτιμη συμβολή του στην επανεξέταση του Ταφικού Κύκλου Α”
Κ. Πασχαλίδης, “‘( ... ) έρρωσο. Ερρίκος Σχλιέμανν’. Η ανακάλυψη του Μυκηναϊκού Πολιτισμού και η δημιουργία του Μυκηναίου Μουσείου μέσα από τις αναφορές των πρωταγωνιστών της”
Α. Μπάτζιου, “Σύντομη επισκόπηση του αρχαιολογικού έργου του Χρήστου Τσούvτα στη Μαγνησία μέσα από τη ματιά του σήμερα”
Κ. Κωστάντη, “Αγώγι εις Διμήνι, δραχμαί 9’. Οι περιοδείες του Χρήστου Τσούvτα στη Θεσσαλία το 1905-1906 μέσα από το οικονομικό – ταξιδιωτικό του σημειωματάριο”
Κ. Μαντέλη, “Τα νεολιθικά ειδώλια από τις ανασκαφές του Χρήστου Τσούvτα στο Σέσκλο και το Διμήνι: η μαρτυρία από τα ημερολόγια του και τηv δημοσίευση του 1908”
Κ. Βουτσά, “Η Σίφνος του Χρήστου Τσούvτα μέσα από τηv ανάγνωση του ημερολογίου του”
Γ. Κορρές, “Η επανεμφάνιση του ‘Θησαυρού του Πριάμου’ στα τέλη του 20ου αιώνα”

Changing of the Guard at INSTAP

The Institute for Aegean Prehistory has sent the following announcement regarding the changing of the guard at INSTAP:
Prof. Philip Betancourt has retired as Director of The Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) on October 22nd. He is the founding Director of INSTAP and has served with dedication and distinction for the past 41 years.
The INSTAP Board of Trustees has elected as his successor Dr. Thomas Brogan, who has served as the Director of the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete since 1997. Dr. Brogan will remain at his post on Crete in his expanded role as Director of The Institute for Aegean Prehistory.
Dr. Susan Ferrence continues in her role as Director of the INSTAP
Academic Press located in Philadelphia. Dr. Konstantinos Chalikias and
Dr. Jason Earle, recently named Assistant Directors of The Institute for Aegean Prehistory, remain in those roles with a focus on Administration and Grants respectively.
Malcolm H. Wiener, the Founder of The Institute for Aegean Prehistory
and the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, retired as Vice President of both Boards. He remains an INSTAP Trustee and has accepted the title Chairman Emeritus for the Study Center.
Finally, the Trustees have elected as President of both Boards Prof. Jeffrey Soles, a long-serving Trustee of INSTAP and the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete and the director of the Mochlos Excavation Project.
The editors of Nestor thank the retiring INSTAP officials for their years of service to the study of Aegean prehistory and congratulate the appointees.