Nestor is an international bibliography of Aegean studies, Homeric society, Indo-European linguistics, and related fields. It is published monthly from September to May (each volume covers one calendar year) by the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati. It is currently edited by Carol R. Hershenson.

The primary geographic nexus of Nestor is the Aegean, including all of Greece, Albania, and Cyprus, the southern area of Bulgaria, and the western and southern areas of Turkey. Nestor includes publications concerning the central and western Mediterranean, southeastern Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, western Asia, and other regions of archaeological research, if the specific bibliographic items contain Aegean artifacts, imitations, or influences, or make reference to Aegean comparanda.

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December 2023 issue available

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01 December 2023

The December 2023 issue of Nestor (50.12) is available as a free download.
Grants and Fellowships

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01 December 2023

Michael Ventris Award for Mycenaean Studies for 2024

On 1 February 2024 applications are due for the Michael Ventris Award for Mycenaean Studies for 2024 (up to £3000), to be awarded to scholars who have obtained a doctorate within the past eight years or postgraduate students about to complete the doctorate in the field of Mycenaean civilization or kindred subjects, to promote research in (1) Linear B and other Bronze Age scripts of the Aegean and Cyprus and their historical and cultural connections, or (2) all other aspects of the Bronze Age of the Aegean and Cyprus. Applications (6 pages maximum) should be sent by email, ideally as a PDF attachment, to the Classics Manager, Valerie James (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Further information, including detailed application instructions, is available at https://ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/awards-prizes/michael-ventris-award-mycenaean-studies-2024.
Calls for Papers

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01 December 2023

Lidar and Landscapes in the Archaeology of Greece

On 2 January 2024 abstracts (200 words) are due for a workshop entitled Lidar and Landscapes in the Archaeology of Greece, to take place on 15 March 2024 at the American School of Classical Studies. Abstracts should be sent to Alex Knodell at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Archaeologists working with lidar in Greece are invited to discuss recent and ongoing projects, with a particular focus on research goals and methodologies. The following themes are suggested for consideration:
• Problems and potential for lidar applications in Greece versus other parts of the world
• Techniques for processing or visualizing point clouds and various types of derivative rasters
• Archaeological and environmental spatial analysis
• Feature identification and classification
• Machine learning
• Ground-truthing, verification, and error detection
• Comparison with other remote sensing techniques
• Issues of scale—site, landscape, and regional applications
• Lidar as an archaeological tool versus a remote sensing research topic in its own right
• Interdisciplinary collaboration

10th UCLA GSAA

On 4 January 2024 abstracts (250 words) are due for papers, roundtables, panels, or other formats at the 10th UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Graduate Student Association of Archaeology (GSAA) Conference. Plural Geographies: exploring alternative ecologies and navigating through the field, to be held in hybrid format at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles, on 17–18 May 2024. Further information is available from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and at https://forms.gle/hD5LKjSzMuyLLckc7. The following keywords are suggested to inspire work but are not limiting:
• Ecologies: historical ecology; political ecology; multi-natures; networks; entanglements
• Geographies: critical geographies; alternative geographies; geographical methods; GIS; mapping memory; mapping experiences; critical mapping; ecologies; places
• Place and space: place-making; spatial experience; architectonics; critical heritage; heritage and contested land; identity and place; thirdspaces
• Landscapes: seascapes; skyscapes; earth; archaeoastronomy
• Land: land-use; land rights; land back; borders; borderlands; migration; land-based violence; diaspora; exile
• Time and temporalities: periods; epochs; relative dating; Indigenous conceptualizations of time; alternative timescales; archaeology of the contemporary; archaeology of the past informed by the present; archaeology of the future
• Beyond archaeology: disciplinary reimagining; multidisciplinary archaeology; decolonizing archaeology; breaking disciplinary boundaries; architecture and historicity

2nd Women in the Archaeology of Greece

On 15 January 2024 abstracts (500 words in Greek, French, English, or German) are due for the second workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece: Tribute to Veronika Mitsopoulos-Leon, with a focus on women and archaeological institutions, to take place on 13 March 2024 at the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Athens, co-organized by the École française d'Athènes. Further information is available at https://www.efa.gr/appel-a-communications-atelier-femmes-et-institutions-archeologiques/. The 2024 workshop aims to explore different aspects of the institutional obstacles and opportunities encountered by women, in particular:
• The official or unofficial reluctance towards women on the part of foreign institutes and Greek universities, Archaeological Services, museums, and research centers
• The role of these institutions as springboards or, on the contrary, brakes in the career of women archaeologists, for instance in terms of funding opportunities
• The strategies adopted by women to pursue their career goals

PEBA 4

On 15 January 2024 abstracts (500 words) are due for the 4th Perspectives on Balkan Archaeology (PEBA 4). The Things of Life: Resources and Religion in the Metal Ages in Southeastern Europe, to be held on 25-28 September 2024 in Varna. Further information is available at https://pebasite.wordpress.com/. Speakers are invited to present papers related to one or several of the following issues:
• How did the regular needs for materials and resources affect the socio-economic developments of prehistoric communities?
• Power and Landscape: How is the emergence of power related to access to and control over different types of materials and resources?
• Sustainability and exploitation: How was sustainability used to manage resources effectively? Which consequences had exploitation of resources?
• Production, Trade, Exchange, and Competition: How did economic developments, new technologies in extracting and producing various materials, and expanded trade networks facilitate societies’ access to resources from more distant places?
• What role did animal and plant resources play in communities? What was the symbolic significance of certain animals and plants in societies (in terms of archaeozoology/archaeobotany and animals/plants in funerary contexts, deposits, or pictorial representations)?
• What role does access to water sources play in the location and development of settlements, roads, and networks? And how are water sources used or associated with a religious or ritual context?
• How and what materials and resources were used for the various rites, burial facilities and treasures?

2nd Indus and the Aegean

On 29 February 2024 abstracts (250 words maximum) for 20-minute papers are due for the Second International Workshop on Relations Between the Indus and the Aegean in the Bronze Age: Commodities and Exchange, to take place on 29-30 November 2024 at the University of Oxford. All presenters are invited to offer their papers for publication in a peer-reviewed proceeding of the workshop to be edited by Dr. Marie Nicole Pareja. Abstracts should be sent to Robert Arnott at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., from whom further information is available.
Future Lectures and Conferences

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01 December 2023

POCA 2023

On 1-3 December 2023 the Postgraduates in Cypriot Archaeology (POCA 2023) conference will be held at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens/ Athens University History Museum in hybrid mode. Further information is available at https://conferences.uoa.gr/event/66/page/459-program-of-the-conference. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
L. Bombardieri, “Inside Out. Spaces and notions of social inclusion and exclusion in Bronze Age Cyprus.”
T. Christoforou, “The diachronic synthesis of the landscape in the northeastern foothills of Troodos mountains the Agia Varvara, Lythrodontas Mathiatis Sia areas from Prehistory until Late Antiquity”
A. Gonzalez San Martin, “Labourscapes of Bronze Age Cyprus”
G. Albertazzi and A. Villani, “What if it is over? How water availability coevolved with the life and abandonment of Middle Bronze Age Erimi Laonin tou Porakou”
P. Koullouros, M. Madella, and E. Margaritis, “Exploring Human Woodland Interactions in 1st millennium Cyprus Insights from Wood Charcoal Analysis in PASYDY and Tserkezoi Gardens”
Chara Theotokatou, “Down to Hearth Spotlighting intra and inter house social relations in Late Cypriot contexts”
K. Tsirtsi, G. Kasapidou, and E. Margaritis, “What do Chalcolithic plant remains have to say?”
M. Schutti, “Ritual or Souvlaki? Human pig relations in the Chalcolithic”
R. Laoutari and G. Muti, “Never travel solo Donkeys in Prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus and their role in the island’s inter and intra-regional networks”
F. Fontani, “Deciphering archaeogenetics in Cyprus state of the art and perspectives”
K. C. Koukzelas, “Cooking and consumption in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus preliminary results from the organic residue analysis of cooking pots from Erimi - Laonin tou Porakou”
M. Hadjigavriel and M. Dikomitou-Eliadou, “Sherds that Talk: A Compositional and Technological Study of Late Chalcolithic Pottery from Cyprus”
S. Menelaou, L. Bombardieri, M. Amadio, and G. Muti, “Examining the ceramic landscape of Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou an analytical approach to pottery production and circulation”
C. A. Mohan Minos, “It’s all Plain to me? Characterising Fabrics of Late Cypriot I-IIB Plain White Pottery from Enkomi”
C. Carigiet, “Identifying regional styles in flask production in the Early and Middle Cypriot Bronze Age”
P. Tripodi, “‘Unveiling the unseen’ Broadening perspectives on Middle Cypriot daggers through use wear analysis”
D. Snook, “Finger-rings of Enkomi an exploration of sensory and cognitive engagement of personal adornments in the Late Cypriot Period”
E. Loizou, “Loomweights as votive offerings? A view from the sacred precinct of Kition”
C. Cateloy, “Cross-Regional connections Levantine amphorae and their circulation in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Middle and Late Bronze Age”

AIA 2024

On 4-7 January 2024 the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA 2024) will be held in Chicago, with both in-person and virtual components but not fully hybrid. Further information is available at http://www.archaeological.org. Based on the preliminary program, papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
D. Nakassis, “One Script, One Kingdom? Exploring and Explaining the Heterogeneity of Linear B”
D. Panagiotopoulos, “Koine in a Nutshell. What Seals (and Theory) Can Tell Us about Cultural Uniformity in the Mycenaean Palatial Period”
S. Vitale, “Understanding the Mycenaean “Koine”: Norms and Variations in Aegean Cooking and Tableware Pottery Assemblages from the Late 15th to the early 12th Century B.C.E.”
N. Blackwell, “Evaluating Homogeneity in Mycenaean Palatial Construction: A Stoneworking Perspective”
E. Egan, “Counterpoints to Koine in Mycenaean Painting”
J. Murphy, “Doing it My Way: Ritual and Death at Pylos and Mycenae in the Late Bronze Age”
A. R. Knodell, D. Athanasoulis, J. Banks, A. Belza, R. Campbell, and J. F. Cherry, “The Small Cycladic Islands Project 2023: The Islets of Andros, Tenos, Mykonos, and Amorgos”
D. J. Fallu, G. Tsartsidou, L. Vokotopoulos, A. Lang, and C. Bahl, “The Geoarchaeology of Minoan Agricultural Engineering at Choiromandres, Crete”
D. M. Buell, K. T. Glowacki, and N. L. Klein, “New Observations on the Architecture of the Gournia Shrine”
A. Hunter, “Coloring the Image: The use of Egyptian Blue in Bronze Age Mediterranean Fresco Imagery”
E. Shank, “The LM IA Decorated Lustral Basin at Chania: Ritual and Use”
E. J. Fuller, “A Liminal Approach to Cultural Interaction and Maritime Exchange at Two Late Bronze Age Aegean Harbors”
N. Bowman, “Maritime Connectivity and Mobility in the Southeastern Aegean during the Neopalatial Period: A GIS-based Approach”
S. A. James and E. Marzec, “Results of the Western Argolid Petrography Project”
K. Mallinson, T. Carter, S. Crewson, M. Harder, C. Lopez, V. Mastrogiannopoulou, D. Mylona, M. N. Pareja, G. Tsartsidou, and D. Athanasoulis, “Spring Cleaning at Stelida? Disentangling Depositional Practices at the Minoan-Type Peak Sanctuary
R. McKay, “Nestor’s Two Forests: Sustainable practices and resource procurement in the Pylian Kingdom”
B. R. Jones, “The Girl on the Mycenaean Ivory Triad: Identifying Her Garment, Hairstyle, and Identity”
E. Keyser, “New Perspectives on Rhyta from the Mycenaean Mainland”
D. M. Wheeler, “The Mourner is Present: Performance Art and the Mycenaean Funeral”
G. Erny and M. McHugh, “Implementing Survey in a Suburban Coastal Context: Reflections from the BEARS Project”
A. Psoma, “Chipped Stone Tools from the Bays of East Attica Regional Survey (BEARS)”
B. Lis, “LH IIIC Pottery in the Bay of Porto Rafti: Insights into Production, Consumption, and Exchange”
A. Koh, C. Floyd, I. Roy, T. Luke, S. Bishop, M. Gold, and M. MacFarline, “The Southern Phokis Regional Project: Results of the 2023 Field Season”
T. Van Damme, B. Burke, B. Burns, A. Charami, and N. Herrmann, “New Excavations at Ancient Eleon in Eastern Boeotia”
B. Watts-Wooldridge, “The Trade of Pictorial Pottery in the 12th century BCE: New Data from Ancient Eleon, Boeotia”
A. M. Gaggioli, “Geoarchaeology and Soil Micromorphology Insights into Late Bronze Age Constructions at Eleon, Greece”
A. Van de Moortel and N. P. Herrmann, “Monuments of Earth and Stone: Social Significance of Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Tumuli at Mitrou, Central Greece”
K. B. Harrington and C. Steidl, “Signs Beyond the Cadmea: An Imported Seal Stone from the Ismenion Hill”
A. J. Shapland, A. Jenkins – Le Guerroué, R. Fascialé, and F. McDowall, “The Use of the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Video Game in the Labyrinth: Knossos Myth and Reality Exhibit at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford”
E. Kopanaki, “Regional Mobilities and the Making of Community in East Lokris”
J. Mokrišová, “The Making of Ionia: Land-Based Interregional Interactions”
T. Maltas, “Cultivating the Emerging Greek World: Land Use, Urbanisation and Interaction in the Iron Age Mediterranean”
S. Crewson and K. Mallinson, “Mythical Legacies and Bronze Age Realities: Revisiting Knossian and Naxian Connections”
H. Sugioka, “Movement in Xeste 3, Akrotiri and the Potential for Kinaesthetic Address”
R. B. Koehl, “A Griffin Throne from the Mycenaean Building on the Koukounaries Hill, Paros, Cyclades, Greece”
G. Hedreen, “Terracotta Interspecies Figures from Ayia Triada: Traditional Iconography or Artistic Innovation?”
J. L. Kramer, “Digging Up Troy: A Worker from the University of Cincinnati Expedition to the Troad”
A. Psimogiannou, “‘Breaking-down’ the Aegean Final Neolithic (mid. Fifth- Fourth mill. BCE) with the Use of Absolute, Radiocarbon Dates: Phases, Pottery Sequences and Regional Differentiation”
L. Bernardo-Ciddio, “Without a Trace: Re-Examining Relationships Between Matt-Painted Pottery in Albania and Italy”
J. E. Schultz, “Shumë Shqip Sheep: Preliminary Isotopic Data towards Understanding Prehistoric Herding Practices in Albania”
T. M. S. Nash, “Writing Beyond the Palaces? The Case of the Ivory Houses at Mycenae”
S. Cushman, “Mycenaean Texts and Tombs: A Contradictory Picture?”
J. Evrenopoulos, “Redefining an Archive: A Guide to the Context of the Pylos Linear B Tablets from Rooms 7-8 and its Proper Analysis”
T. Palaima, “Chairs and Stools and their Status Implications in the Pylos Ta ‘Totenmahl’ Inventory”

19. Österreichischer Archäologentag (2024)

On 3-5 April 2023 the 19. Österreichischer Archäologentag (2024) will be held in Innsbruck. Further information is available at https://www.uibk.ac.at/archaeologien/index.html.de. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
F. Blakolmer, “Investiturszenen in der Frühägäis: vom ‘Prinzenbecher’ aus Agia Triada zum Kultzentrum von Mykene”
B. Huber, “Emotionen und Emotionalität in Darstellungen von Bestattungsriten in spätmykenischer und geometrischer Zeit”
A. Sokolicek and L. Berger, “A Tale of Two Cities: Bronzezeit und Byzanz in Aegina Kolonna”
J. Weilhartner, “Gold in der mykenischen Palastzeit: Schriftquellen und archäologische Evidenz”
Past Lectures and Conferences

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01 December 2023

ASOR 2023

On 18-21 October 2023 (online) and 15-18 November 2023 (in person) the American Schools of Overseas Research Annual Meeting (ASOR 2023) was hosted in Chicago, IL. Further information is available at http://www.asor.org. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
A. McCarthy, “The Aceramic Neolithic in the West of Cyprus: Choirokoitian without Choirokoitia?”
M. T. Horowitz, C. Johnston, and E. De Benedictis, “Laroumena/Arkhangelos: A Middle Cypriot Settlement in Kalavasos”
L. Crewe, “The Bronze Age Settlement of Kissonerga-Skalia”
S. W. Manning, G. M. Andreou, C. Atkins, E. Booker, K. D. Fisher, Artemis Georgious, C. M. Kearns, B. Lorentzen, and T. M. Urban, “Monuments, Structure, and Space at Late Bronze Age Maroni, Cyprus”
K. H. Keimer, “Philistine Elements at Khirbet el-Ra’i”
J. C. Katz, “Philistine Group Identity Through the Lens of Successful Group Behavior”
C. Barnes and G. Braun, “Architectural Energetics in Southcentral Cyprus: A Study of Monumental Ashlar Construction at Kalavasos Ayios Dhimitrios”
B. Clark, “Change in Maritime Connectivity in Cyprus and the Southern Levant Throughout the Middle and Late Bronze Ages: The Case of Cypriot Ceramics”
L. Maher, D. Macdonald, A. Simmons, and S. Steward, “Epipaleolithic Wayfarers: Early Explorers of Cyprus”
A. H. Simmons, “Neolithic Islanders: What Have We Learned About Early Settlements of Cyprus?”
B. Davis, “Shall We Remember the Past, or Repeat It?”
L. Steel, “Engendering Creative Expression in Bronze Age Cyprus”
S. Czujko, “Aegean Pottery in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: a New Technological Look at Selected Materials from Beth Shean”
G. C. Braun and C. Barnes, “Considerations for Digital Data Collection, Processing, and Visualization Methods for Architectural Features in Southcentral Cyprus”
S. Klassen, “The Evolution of ‘Late Philistine Decorated Ware’: New Evidence from the Field III Gateway at Tel Gezer”
E. Ridder, P. L. Fall, and S. E. Falconer, “GIS and Photogrammetric Landscape Modeling at Politiko-Troullia, Cyprus”
K. D. Fisher, G. M. Andreou, C. Kearns, and S. W. Manning, “Investigating a Late Bronze Age Urban Landscape: Recent Fieldwork at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, Cyprus”
D. N. Fulton and C. Olson, “Feeding the Living or the Dead? Animal Offerings at Ashkelon, Israel”
S. R. Guterman, S. Albaz, and A. M. Maeir, “Tuning into the Past: The Evidence of Music in Philistine Cult”
J. Engstrom, “‘The Royal Bridge’: Carl Blegen and the Hellenization of Troy in the Interwar Aegean”
C. M. Trent, D. M. Adams, and A. M. Büyükkarakaya, “An Analysis of the Lived Experiences of the Juveniles of Early Bronze Age Karataş-Semayük”
E. S. K. Anderson, “Watchful Stones: The Potent Co-presence of Script and Front-Facing Animals in Cretan MBA Prism Seals”
A. T. Donald, “New Insights from the Cyprus Museum ‘Old Collection’”
D. M. Finn, N. Yahalom-Mack, and Y. Erel, “A Comprehensive Analysis of Late Bronze Age Copper Sources: Reevaluation of Copper Ingots using Lead Isotope Analysis, Chemical Composition, and a Mixing Model”
P. Degryse and S. De Ceuster, “Redefining the Cyprus Orefields: Innovative Provenancing of Ancient Copper Metallurgy”
A. Cercone, “Pottery Production and Trade at Küllüoba, Turkey: A Discussion of Craft Production and Networks in Western Anatolia from a Microscopic Level”
G. Öztürk and F. Kulakoglu, “New Discoveries on Alabaster Idols and Statuettes of the 3rd Millennium BC at Kültepe: A Comparative Analysis to Understand the Typology, Context and Meanings of Ritual Objects”
C. B. Scott and T. Kaner, “Monumental Loaves: The Role of Fire Installations in Structuring Elite Space at 2nd Millennium BCE Kaymakçı, Western Anatolia”
C. J. Greenough, “The Aegean Lion and its Connections to Egypt and the Near East”
L. A. Hitchcock, “In a State of Suspenseful Animation: Let’s Party Like It’s 1199”
L. Tapinos, “Frames of Liminality: A Diachronic Study of the Running Spiral Motif in the Aegean and the Near East”
L. E. Alvarez, “Cypriot Trade and Diplomacy in the Late Bronze Age: a Mirror Perspective”
C. von Rüden, “Southern Sardinia and the Wider Mediterranean Web - A View from the islet of Sant’Antioco”
B. Clark, L. Recht, L. Mazzotta, and K. Zeman-Wisniewska, “Piecing together the Past: The Ceramic Assemblage of the Renewed Excavations at Erimi Pitharka”
L. B. Mazow, “Monkeys, Musicians, and Weavers: Multivalency in the Monkey Frieze from Xeste 3”
L. McDonald and S. W. Manning, “A multi-isotope approach to dendroprovenancing: progress and prospects”

ΤΕΦΡΑ

On 30 November – 1 December 2023 a conference entitled ΤΕΦΡΑ: Η τεχνολογία και η βιοανθρωπολογία της χρήσης της φωτιάς στο Προϊστορικό Αιγαίο was held in Thessaloniki. Further information is available at https://tefraproject.web.auth.gr/-/index.php/el/. The program was:
Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Στόχοι του ερευνητικού προγράμματος ΤΕΦΡΑ”
Α. Παπαθανασίου and T. Cullen, “Μεσολιθικές ταφές από το σπήλαιο Φράγχθι”
Χ. Ζιώτα and Α. Χονδρογιάννη, “Η καύση στη Νεολιθική και ΠΕΧ Κίτρινη Λίμνη Κοζάνης”
Ε. Βούλγαρη, Μ. Σωφρονίδου, Τ. Γιαγκούλης, and Κ. Κωτσάκης, “Νεολιθικές καύσεις από το Δισπηλιό Καστοριάς
Χ. Σοφιανού and T. Brogan, “ΥΜ ΙΙΙΓ καύση σε ΥΜ Ι οικία στον Παπαδιόκαμπο Σητείας”
Ε. Παππή, “Η καύση στο ΥΕ ΙΙΙΓ Άργος”
Ν. Παπακωνσταντίνου, Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, Β. Παπαθανασίου, Σ. Κιορπέ, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Η βάση δεδομένων του ερευνητικού προγράμματος και η μεθοδολογία της μακροσκοπικής μελέτης”
Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, “Πρώιμες καύσεις από το σπήλαιο Φράγχθι, τη Θεσσαλία και τη Μακεδονία”
Σ. Τριανταφύλλου and Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, “Η πρακτική της καύσης στην ΠΕΧ στο Αιγαίο”
Ν. Παπακωνσταντίνου, “Οι καύσεις από το ΥΕ ΙΙΙΓ Άργος”
Σ. Κιορπέ, “Η πρακτική της καύσης στην ΥΜ ΙΙΙΓ στην ανατoλική Κρήτη”
Α. Λιούτας and Γ. Παπαδιάς, “Η τοπογραφία της Πολίχνης και τα τεφροδόχα αγγεία της Εποχής του Σιδήρου”
Β. Μισαηλίδου-Δεσποτίδου, “Οι καύσεις στη Νέα Φιλαδέλφεια Θεσσαλονίκης”
Θ. Σαββοπούλου, “Οι καύσεις στο Γυναικόκαστρο Κιλκίς”
Β. Παπαθανασίου, “Οι καύσεις στην Πολίχνη Θεσσαλονίκης”
Β. Παπαθανασίου, “Οι καύσεις στη Νέα Φιλαδέλφεια Θεσσαλονίκης”
Σ. Κιορπέ, “Οι καύσεις στο Γυναικόκαστρο Κιλκίς”
Ν. Παπακωνσταντίνου, “Βιβλιογραφική επισκόπηση της πρακτικής της καύσης και η βάση δεδομένων του ερευνητικού προγράμματος”
Α. Αλεξανδρίδου, “Η καύση στην Αττική των Πρώιμων Ιστορικών χρόνων”
Α. Κοτσώνας, “H καύση στην Κρήτη της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Σιδήρου”
Β. Βλάχου, “Η καύση στο Αιγαίο των Πρώιμων Ιστορικών χρόνων”
Σ. Τριανταφύλλου and Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, “Πειραματικές προσεγγίσεις στην πρακτική της καύσης”
Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, Α. Παπαδάκης, Ν. Κουγκούλης, Σ. Χρονάκη, Β. Παπαθανασίου, Ν. Παπακωνσταντίνου, Σ. Κιορπέ, Ε. Κυριατζή, C. Snoeck, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Η διαδικασία των πειραματικών πυρών”
K. Fülop, “Pyre technology in the light of ceramic pyre goods. Results from three open-air cremation experiments”
C. Henkel and Ε. Μαργαρίτη, “Sifting through the ashes: analysing plant remains from an experimental mortuary pyre”
Α. Κρήτη and Α. Λιβάρδα, “Πειραματικές προσεγγίσεις στην αρχαιοβοτανική”
Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, Α. Παπαδάκης, Ν. Κουγκούλης, Σ. Χρονάκη, Β. Παπαθανασίου, Ε. Κυριατζή, C. Snoeck, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Ανασκαφή πειραματικών πυρών”
Ε. Ασημάκου, “Γεωμετρικές καύσεις από το Αιγάλεω Αττικής”
Γ. Δημάκη, “Γεωμετρικές καύσεις από τον Άλιμο Αττικής”
Χ. Σοφιανού, “Οι καύσεις από τη νεκρόπολη Ιτάνου στην ανατολική Κρήτη”
Δ. Μποσνάκης and Ε. Σκέρλου, “Καύσεις νεκρών στην γεωμετρική Κω”
Ν. Παπακωνσταντίνου, “Γεωμετρικές καύσεις από το Αιγάλεω και τον Άλιμο Αττικής”
Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, “Οι καύσεις από το νεκροταφείο της γεωμετρικής Έλτυνας, νομού Ηρακλείου”
Σ. Κιορπέ, “Οι καύσεις από τη νεκρόπολη Ιτάνου στη ανατολική Κρήτη”
Ν. Παπακωνσταντίνου, “Γεωμετρικές καύσεις από τα Σεράγια Κω”
Ν. Παπακωνσταντίνου, Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, Β. Παπαθανασίου, Σ. Κιορπέ, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Η τεχνολογία και η βιοαρχαιολογία των καύσεων στο προϊστορικό Αιγαίο: Σύνοψη”
Ν. Βαλασιάδης, Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Ιστοσελίδα, μέσα κοινωνικής δικτύωσης και εθελοντική εργασία στο ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα ΤΕΦΡΑ”
Κ. Κασβίκης and Α. Προκόβα, “Εκπαιδευτικό υλικό για μαθητές της πρωτοβάθμιας και δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης για την πρακτική της καύσης στην αρχαιότητα”

Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης 60 χρόνια

On 30 November – 2 December 2023 the conference Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης 60 χρόνια was held in Thessaloniki. Further information is available at https://www.amth.gr/news/epistimoniko-symposio-arhaiologiko-moyseio-thessalonikis-60-hronia. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
Β. Μισαηλίδου-Δεσποτίδου, “Το χάλκινο κόσμημα ως σύμβολο κοινωνικής ταυτότητας. Στοιχεία από τους τάφους της ‘τοπικής ελίτ’ στο νεκροταφείο της εποχής σιδήρου της Νέας Φιλαδέλφειας”
Κ. Χαβέλα, “Τα ευρήματα από το αρχαίο νεκροταφείο Τούμπας Θεσσαλονίκης στο Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης. Από τον Πελεκίδη στον 21ο αιώνα”
Ε. Τσαγκαράκη and Ο. Πάλλη, “Το υλικό αποτύπωμα της προϊστορικής Μακεδονίας σε περιοδικές εκθέσεις στο εξωτερικό”
Μ. Παππά, “‘Η Μακεδονία από τa μυκηναϊκά χρόνια ως τον Μέγα Αλέξανδρο’, το οδοιπορικό της έκθεσης της ΙΣΤ΄ΕΠΚΑ στη Μπολόνια το 1988
Μ. Παππά, “‘Προϊστορική Θεσσαλονίκη. Πρώιμες κοινότητες στην ενδοχώρα του Θερμαϊκού’
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01 November 2023

The November 2023 issue of Nestor (50.11) is available as a free download.
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Tennessee Undergraduate Classics Research Conference

On 18 November 2023 abstracts (250 words) are due for the Twelfth Annual Tennessee Undergraduate Classics Research Conference, to be held on 24 February 2024 at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Further information will be available at https://classics.utk.edu/ugcc.php and from Dr. Stephen Collins-Elliott at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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01 November 2023

TALOS Webinar

The TALOS Webinar on the “Santorini Eruption: Comparative anthropological and volcanological research of an archaeological case study” has announced their schedule of upcoming lectures, each at 5 pm (UTC+1). The registration link for each talk is available at https://talos.minoan-aegis.net/webinars.
2 November 2023: F. Mavridis, P. Zafeiriadis, and Ž. Tankosić, “Inverted practices: Tephra and related cult in the BA Cyclades”
16 November 2023: K. Sbonias, “Human responses to the volcanic landscape. The case of the Prehistoric Therasia Project”
30 November 2023: M. Marthari, “Living opposite the Thera volcano: the nature of the Raos volcanic destruction and comparisons to Akrotiri”

New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium

The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium has announced the schedule of lectures for 2023-2024, to held at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY 10075 or the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, 15 East 84th Street, New York, NY 10028. Abstracts and Zoom registration links for each talk will be available at https://nyabac.tumblr.com/ a few weeks in advance of each date.
6 November 2023, 12 pm ET: P. Hnila, “Load-bearing Horizontal Timber Framing in Aegean Bronze Age Architecture and Its Anatolian Parallels”
30 November 2023, 12 pm ET: T. Palaima, “70 Years of Wa/ondering: The Pylos Ta series and Mycenaean Ceremonies”
26 February 2023, 12 pm ET: A. Knodell, “New Perspectives on Settlement Patterns in the Bronze Age Cyclades: A View from the Margins”
11 March 2023, 6:30 pm EDT: S. Hogue, “Destruction and Reuse of the Palace of Nestor Main Building”
11 April 2023, 6:30 pm EDT: L Kvapil: “Terraces, Technology, Land, and Labor in Mycenaean Greece”

Change and Continuity

On 3-4 November 2023 the Canadian Institute in Greece (CIG) Graduate Student Conference: Change and Continuity will be held in hybrid format by the Canadian Institute in Greece. Further information and the link to the livestream are available at https://cig-icg.gr/event/graduate-student-conference-change-and-continuity/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. Tsafou, “Cooking traditions of Minoan Crete, an interdisciplinary study on ceramic cooking vessels”
S. Murray, “Continuity, Change, and Narrative in Archaeological Thought: Lessons from Postpalatial Porto Rafti”
H. Rückemann, “Between Progress and Tradition: An insight into the Early Iron Age transition in the middle Kephissos-Valley (Phocis)”
S. Cushman, “For Richer and for Poorer: The Meaning of Mortuary Continuity and Change in Late Bronze Age Greece”

Perfume Production in the Ancient World

On 6-8 November 2023 an international conference entitled Perfume Production in the Ancient World will be held in Prague. Further information is available at https://www.alchemiesofscent.org/conference-2023. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
M. R. Belgiorno, “‘Eau de B.C.’, perfumed, alcoholic, intoxicating spring of human pleasure. (Mesopotamian and Aegean origins of Mediterranean distillation)”
B. Rueff, “Was the firebox an incense burner? Preliminary Research on Minoan Perfumery”

AWLL 2023

On 10-12 November 2023 the 14th Association for Written Language and Literacy international workshop on writing systems and literacy: Writing/reading interface (AWLL 2023) will be held in Rome. Further information is available at http://faculty-sgs.tama.ac.jp/terry/awll/index.html. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Santamaria, “Readability determines the presence of writing: materials, light effects, and sign sequences on Cretan Hieroglyphic seals”

AEA 2023

On 24-26 November 2023 the 43rd Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology: Telling Environmental Archaeology Stories (AEA 2023) will be held in Tarragona, Spain. Further information is available at https://aea2023.icac.cat/. Based on the preliminary program, papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. Margaritis, C. Henkel, and K. Tsirtsi, “Cultivating the big islands of the Mediterranean: agriculture, farming and urbanization in Bronze Age Crete and Cyprus”
G. Apostolou, A. Mayoral, K. Venieri, S. Dimaki, A. Garcia-Molsosa, M. Georgiadis, and H. A. Orengo, “Holocene alluvial dynamics and human settlement histories in the Xerolakkos catchment (Grevena, GR)”
M. Andonova-Katsarski, Y. Katreva, K. Boyadziev, E. Marinova-Wolff, and Y. Boyadziev, “The Late Chalcolithic vegetal fibres at Tell Yunatsite, Southern Bulgaria”
A. E. T. Kriti, A. Livarda, H. A. Orengo, E. Ninou, and I. Mylonas, “Modern Experimental Cultivations and Charring Experiments of Barley; Methods, Preliminary Results, Challenges and Possibilities”
K. Tsirtsi, G. Kasapidou, P. Koullouros, and E. Margaritis, “The role of archaeobotanical material in better understanding transitional periods: the case of Chalcolithic Cyprus”
Chr. Papoulia, “Taming the sea. A multi-proxy investigation of Mediterranean Stone Age aquatic technologies”

ScapeCon 6

On 2-3 December 2023 the 6th International Conference of ScapeCon: Contextualizing Fire in Aegean Prehistory (ScapeCon 6) will be held by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/ScapeCon/ or from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
S. Kyrillidou, “Session Keynote: Tinders Blazing into the Domestic and Ritual Sphere”
N. Selekos, “Constructing early Mycenaean elite identity: experimentation through fire and blood at Kynortion, Argolid”
P. Bacoup, “Woodworking, architecture and fire in the northern Aegean and southern Balkans in the Neolithic period”
P. Ramirez-Valiente, “This fire is out of control: reevaluating burnt houses in Neolithic Greece, intentional or accidental?”
V. Martin, “Putting one's heart(h) into forging: using the fire in Aegean metalworking at the end of the Neolithic”
C. Snoeck, “Session Keynote: Finding People Through Ashes”
D. Rauschenberger, “Cremation in Neolithic Western Macedonia: a cultural anthropological approach to the transformative power of fire in the mortuary realm"
Y. Chatzikonstantinou, S. Triantaphyllou, C. Snoeck, E. Stamataki, and D. Panagiotopoulos, “Contextualizing Minoan Koumasa through the multidisciplinary examination of the human remains”
A. Kourkoulakos, “A Journey to the Netherworld: an archaeological and textual survey for the use of fire in Anatolia, the Aegean and the Balkans during the Late Bronze Age”
V. Papathanasiou, S. Triantaphyllou, A. Lioutas, and V. Misailidou-Despotidou, “Exploring cremation pathways in Early Iron Age central Macedonia: preliminary insights from Polichni and Nea Philadelphia cemeteries”
E. Gourgouleti, “The concept of operational solidarity as a step towards understanding the curious case of the EC II human cremation at Dhaskalio”
E. Stamataki, “Did the season count? Investigating how seasonality affects pyrotechnology and cremation conditions using experimental archaeology”
A. Livarda, “Session Keynote: Burning Nature to Produce and Consume”
S. Chronaki, D. Androulaki, P. Halstead, S. Triantaphyllou, and S. Andreou, “Lighting a fire for cooking: culinary practices in the prehistoric settlement of Thessaloniki Toumba”
A. Kriti, “Experimental charring experiments on barley towards the creation of new tools to explore agriculture in the past”
D. Kadi, P. Halstead, S. Triantaphyllou, and M. Pappa, “Thermal processing of animal bones: the case of Kyparissi Vasilika”
S. Maritsa, “The role of fire occurrences in the shaping of FN ecosystems in Crete”
M. Choleva, “Session Keynote: Flames of Clay Transformation”
T. Ogawa, S. Triantaphyllou, S. Andreou, H. Procopiou, N. S. Muller, and E. Kiriatzi, “Cooking ware repertoire in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age of Thessaloniki Toumba. Tradition and Innovation of cooking practices”
J. Stuehler, “The usage of fire in a domestic context: Late Helladic sherd hearths reconsidered”
K. Mastorogiannis, S. Triantaphyllou, and S. Andreou, “Colouring through fire: ceramic technology in LBA central Macedonia”
B. Rueff and T. Ogawa, “Where there is smoke there is fire: an experimental and use-wear approach of domestic Minoan fire structures from Malia”
N. Saridaki, I. Siamidou, F. Adaktylou, and K. Kotsakis, “Keeping the home fires burning in the Final Neolithic of northern Greece”
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29 September 2023

The October 2023 issue of Nestor (50.10) is available as a free download.
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29 September 2023

Mediterranean Archaeological Trust

On 27 November 2022 applications for grants not normally to exceed £2,500 to expedite the publication of archaeological fieldwork in the Mediterranean world are due to the Mediterranean Archaeological Trust. Further information is available at https://medarchaeotrust.org/.
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29 September 2023

L’iconographie cynégétique

On 15 October 2023 abstracts (300 words maximum) are due for a colloquium entitled L’iconographie cynégétique dans les mondes anciens, to be held on 22-26 April 2024 in Paris. Further information is available at http://www.arscan.fr/blog/colloque-liconographie-cynegetique-dans-les-mondes-anciens-appel-a-communications/. The themes will be:
• Construire l’iconographie cynégétique
• Les images de la chasse, une source historique
• Images de la chasse et idéologie du pouvoir
• La chasse et sa mise en scène : des enjeux rituels
• Mythologie et iconographie cynégétique

TAG 44

On 15 October 2023 abstracts are due for TAG 44. Climate archaeology: temporalities and ontologies, to be held on 18-20 December 2023 at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. The list of sessions and their chairs to whom abstracts should be sent are available at https://tagnorwich2023.wordpress.com/sessions/.

GIS in Crete

On 27 October 2023 abstracts (250 words maximum) are due for an international conference entitled GIS in Crete: Archaeological Questions and Computational Answers, to be held on 30-31 May 2024 in Athens by the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation and the Department of Archaeology at Ghent University. Abstracts, with title, name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s), and contact information for 20-minute presentations should be submitted to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Further information is available at https://www.ugent.be/lw/archeologie/en/news-events/events/gis-in-crete.

TMA 71

On 30 October 2023 preliminary titles and abstracts (ca. 250 words) are due for the 71st issue of Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie (TMA) for articles of 1500-3000 words due on 31 January 2024. TMA welcomes contributions ranging from case studies to theoretical approaches related to the archaeology of the Mediterranean world in its broadest sense. Research with a historical or epigraphic approach can also be admitted. Further information is available at tijdschrift.mediterrane-archeologie.nl/voor-auteurs/.

Interdisciplinary Ceramic Research in the Peloponnese

On 31 October 2023 abstracts (350 words maximum) are due for a conference entitled Interdisciplinary Ceramic Research in the Peloponnese – Technological Traditions through the Ages, to be held on 4-6 April 2024 at the Austrian Archaeological Institute Athens. Further information is available at https://www.oeaw.ac.at/oeai/veranstaltungen/event-detail/interdisciplinary-ceramic-research-in-the-peloponnese.

EAA AM 2024

On 9 November 2023 proposals for sessions are due for the 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA AM 2024), to be held in Rome in hybrid format on 28-31 August 2024. From 18 December 2023 until 8 February 2024 paper abstract submission will be open. Further information and forms are available at https://www.e-a-a.org/eaa2024.

ISA 2024

On 15 November 2023 abstracts are due for the 44th International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA 2024), to be held on 27-31 May 2024 in Melbourne, Australia, hosted by the Australasian Research Cluster for Archaeological Science (ARCAS). Further information and the link to submit abstracts are available at https://arcas.org.au/isa2024.melbourne/. The subjects of the symposium are grouped into the following sessions:
• Rock Art and Pigments
• Field Methods and Remote Sensing in Archaeological Science
• Dating Methods
• Bioarchaeology and Biomolecules
• Stone, Residues, Use Wear
• Ceramic, Metal, Vitreous
• Human-Environment Interactions
• Architectural and Cultural Heritage Archaeology
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29 September 2023

60th ARU Public Lectures Series

The program of the 60th ARU Public Lectures Series of the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus, focusing on the archaeology of Cyprus and the Aegean, has been announced for autumn 2022. All lectures are held virtually via ZOOM every Monday at 7:30 pm (EET); they are free and open to the public, but registration is required for access before each event starts. Registration is available at https://ucy.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wqdOqrrT4sHNBTwJz0po54A54syd-T6xxh#/registration. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
25 September 2023: C. Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, “Late Bronze Age archaeology of the island of Kefalonia in the 21st century: From culture history to hermeneutics”
27 September 2023 (hybrid): Book presentation – G. Koiner presenting E. Poyiadji-Richter, ed. 2023. Alexander Malios Collection, Vol.1: Cypriot Antiquities. (Leipzig: AMRICHA).
2 October 2023: M. Tsipopoulou, “Feasting (and dancing and singing?) with death: Ceremonial areas in the necropolis of Petras, Siteia, as a mnemonic landscape”
6 November 2023: E. Kozal, “Cypro-Cilician connections in the Late Bronze Age”
13 November 2023: K. Fisher, “Rethinking Late Cypriot monumentality”
20 November 2023: C. Kearns, “Challenges and opportunities in the archaeology of rural landscapes of Iron Age Cyprus”
11 December 2023: M. Rousou, “The contribution of botanical reference collections to archaeological studies: From the field to the laboratory”

Mycenaean Seminars

The University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of Classical Studies has announced the following schedule of Mycenaean Seminars for 2023-2024, to take place in the Institute of Classical Studies, Room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Attendance may be either in person or online unless otherwise noted; booking is required. Mycenaean Seminars begin at 3:30 pm GMT. Further information is available at https://ics.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/institute_classical_studies/Mycenaean%20Seminar%202023-24_final.pdf.
18 October 2023: A. Shapland, “Animals, Humans and Social Change in Palatial Crete”
8 November 2023: Ž. Tankosić, “An Island Between Two Worlds: Southern Euboea (the Karystia) in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age”
6 December 2023: V. Şahoğlu, “Çeşme – Bağlararası: Exploring Dynamic Patterns of Connectivity and Transformation of a Coastal Western Anatolian Settlement during the MBA/LBA Transition”
17 January 2024: A. Bogaard, “New Insights into the Lakeshore Neolithic of South-east Europe from the EXPLO Project”
14 February 2024: E. Finn, “Moving, Making, Meaning: Pebbles in the Archaeology of Bronze Age Crete”
13 March 2024 (online only): C. Langohr, “The Postpalatial Communities of Crete. Assessing Local Practices and Foreign Elements within a Unique Architectural Complex at Sissi (13th c. BCE)”
15 May 2024 (online only): C. Gallou, “‘Malea's Airy Height’: the Mycenaeans and the Sea in South-eastern Laconia”

Minoan Seminar

The Minoan Seminar is being hosted in hybrid format at the British School at Athens. Registration is required for either in-person or online attendance. Further information is available at https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/iro-mathioudaki-luca-girella-the-three-west-court-kouloures-at-knossos-between-the-first-and-second-palace-periods/. The first seminar of 2023-2024 has been announced:
20 October 2023, 6 pm EEST: I. Mathioudaki and L. Girella, “The three West Court Kouloures at Knossos: between the First and Second Palace periods”

Η αρχαιολογία της πειρατείας στην αρχαιότητα

On 5-6 October 2023 a conference entitled Η αρχαιολογία της πειρατείας στην αρχαιότητα will be held in Athens. Further information is available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OOwVpqr2G7HLVa164xFiBfG5uF1AMEWK/view?fbclid=IwAR1hiozU7plaZ_WqAa1_kby1Pxd77VtrQCjzxXZbIbw1cPF73nhwoPy024g. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
Ο. Βικάτου and Β. Στάικου, “Από τους Ταφίους του Ομήρου στους κουρσάρους της Αγίας Μαύρας. Εξερευνώντας την ιστορία της πειρατείας στο κεντρικό Ιόνιο πέλαγος. From Homer’s Taphians to the corsairs of Santa Maura: Exploring the legacy of piracy in the central Ionian Sea”
Π. Γουνελάς, “Πλέοντας «πόντον ἐπ’ ἀτρύγετον»… Η αρχαιολογία της πειρατείας στο Αιγαίο της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Σιδήρου. Sailing through ‘the unresting sea’: The archaeology of piracy in the Aegean of the Early Iron Age”
J. Driessen, “Ληστικός or Can we really talk of pirates in the Bronze Age? Ληστικός ή Μπορούμε πραγματικά να μιλάμε για πειρατές κατά την Εποχή του Χαλκού;”
Ά. Παπαδόπουλος, “Πολεμιστές, οικονομία και πειρατεία. Ένα ιδιαίτερο κοινωνικό τρίπτυχο στην Ανατολική Μεσόγειο της Εποχής του Χαλκού. Warriors, economy, and piracy: A peculiar social triptych in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean”
Χ. Παπαναστασοπούλου, “Πειρατεία στις επιστολές της Αμάρνα; Η διαμαρτυρία του βασιλιά της Alashiya και ο επίμονος Rib-Addi της Βύβλου. Piracy in the Amarna letters? The protest of the king of Alashiya and the persistent Rib-Addi of Byblos”
Α. Λαδάς, “Αναζητώντας ξυλεία στα λημέρια των πειρατών. Τα νέα δεδομένα στη ναυπήγηση πλοίων στο τέλος της Ύστερης Εποχής του Χαλκού και στις αρχές της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Σιδήρου. Seeking timber in the pirates’ lairs: The new facts at the end of the Late Bronze Age and the beginning of the Early Iron Age”
Δ. Σακκάς, “Αναζητώντας την πειρατεία στο Αιγαίο της Μέσης και της πρώιμης Ύστερης Εποχής του Χαλκού. Searching for piracy in the Middle and early Late Bronze Age Aegean”
Π. Κουνούκλας, “Ληΐστορες Λοκροί στη μυκηναϊκή εικονογραφία του Κύνου. Lokrian freebooters in the Mycenaean iconography of Kynos”
Λ. Βοκοτόπουλος, “Οι οχυρωμένες θέσεις της Κρήτης του 13ου/12ου αι. ΠΚΕ και η ανασφάλεια στη θάλασσα. The Cretan fortified sites of the 13th/12th c. BCE and insecurity at sea”
Κ. Τσονάκας, “Τα πολλαπλά πρόσωπα των θαλασσοπόρων κατά τη Μυκηναϊκή Ανακτορική περίοδο. The multiple personae of the seafarers during the Mycenaean Palatial period”
Ν. Γιαγκουδάκη, “Αναζητώντας τις απαρχές της πειρατείας στο Αιγαίο: Εμπόριο και θαλάσσιες επιδρομές κατά την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Χαλκού. Seeking the origins of piracy in the Aegean: Trade and maritime raids during the Early Bronze Age”
Α. Αγγελοπούλου, “Η τέχνη του πολέμου στο προϊστορικό Αιγαίο. Πρωτοκυκλαδικές οχυρωμένες ακροπόλεις και όπλα. The art of war in prehistoric Aegean: Early Cycladic fortified citadels and weapons”
Π. Τζοβάρας, “‘Έμποροι’ ή ‘πειρατές’; Τα τεχνικά χαρακτηριστικά των τύπων πλοίων της Ύστερης Νεολιθικής-Πρώιμης Εποχής Χαλκού σε συνάρτηση με τη χρήση τους. ‘Merchants’ or ‘pirates’? The technical properties of the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age boat types of the Aegean in relation to their functions”
Μ. Πλατή and Ε. Μάρκου, “Παρουσίαση του εκπαιδευτικού προγράμματος ‘Η πειρατεία στις αρχαίες Κυκλάδες’. Presentation of the educational program ‘Piracy in the ancient Cyclades’”
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29 September 2023

ESHE 2023

On 21-23 September 2023 the 13th Annual Meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE 2023) was held in Aarhus, Denmark. Further information is available at https://www.eshe.eu/meetings/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
D. De Caro, M. Kuhn, E. Panagopoulou, K. Harvati, and V. Tourloukis, “The technological behaviour in the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis basin, Greece)”

Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A

On 23 September 2023 a workshop entitled New Prospects on the Aegean Undeciphered Scripts: Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A was held at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum in collaboration with the ERC research project “INSCRIBE – Invention of Scripts and their Beginnings” of the University of Bologna. Further information is available at https://www.heraklionmuseum.gr/anakoinosi-16-3-2023-duplicate-9858-duplicate-11172-19/. The program was:
S. Ferrara, “Introduction”
A. Kanta, “Recent finds from the cult centre of the city of Knossos”
A. Santamaria, “Shaping, reading and stamping a hieroglyphic seal: The interweaving of material, epigraphic and contextual features”
M. Civitillo, “Seals for counting? A new proposal for the ‘meaning’ and use of recently identified Cretan Hieroglyphic Script signs on seals”
A. Greco, “The Minoan scribes treated as criminals! First results of an integrated palaeographic survey of the corpus of Linear A tablets from Phaistos”
J. Weingarten, “A new look at the first ever published Cretan Hieroglyphic 4-sided prism, 150 years later”
G. Flouda, “Closing remarks: From iconicity to the future of Minoan writing”

Brightening the Dark Ages

On 27-30 September 2023 an international conference entitled Brightening the Dark Ages, Archaic Greek Culture and Its Past was at the Academy of Athens. Further information is available at http://www.academyofathens.gr/en/conferences/brighteningthedarkages. The program was:
A. Vlachopoulos, X. Charalambidou, and V. Lambrinoudakis, “The settlement of Grotta, Naxos: from the ‘proto-urban town’ to the historical ‘polis’”
Y. Lolos and C. Marabea, “Kanakia and Ginani: the end of the Mycenaean Palatial Age and the transition to the Early Iron Age in Southern Salamis”
H. Goette, “The sanctuary of Zeus Hellanios on Aigina: Mycenaean connections into historical times?”
C. Brillante, “Homeric poetry and local traditions: the Pylian epos between Mycenaean and archaic age”
A. C. Cassio, “Ἀλλόκοτα γράμματα: notes on the dialectal and graphemic fragmentation of archaic Greece”
M. Finkelberg, “From Iolkos to Troy: Thessaly and Thessalians in Greek heroic tradition”
K. Kalogeropoulos, “Aristocratic and democratic perceptions of the Mycenaean past in Attica during the 8th and the 7th centuries BCE”
J. Burgess, “Achilles and the development of Trojan war myth”
A. Lardinois, “Homer’s Pindar: the epic possession of a lyric past”
R. Seaford, “From aggregation to antithesis: vase-painting, text, and cosmology in the developing ‘polis’”
I. Rutherford, “Greek religious networks from Mycenaean period to archaic Greece”
E. Cingano, “Epic verse and performance before Homer: the spoken word and the fixed text”
G. Nagy, “Comparative approaches to Greek myths about invasions during the ‘Dark Ages’: on the so-called Dorian Invasion”
E. Cline, “Coping, adapting, and transforming in the aftermath of the LBA collapse: the view from the Aegean to Assyria during the Iron Age”
J. Whitley, “Alternative pasts: Crete and Thessaly compared”
S. Sherratt, “Euboean sub-protogeometric plates in the 9th century BCE, East and West”
E. Wagner-Durand, “‘Fantastic Beasts’ … between East and West: the transfer of emotive images using the example of composite and other special beings”
P. W. Stockhammer and The Attica Archaeogenetic Project, “A bioarchaeological light on the ‘Dark Ages’”
I. Hajnal, “The Greek dialects in the early phase of the Dark Ages”
A. Duplouy, “A link to the past? The ancestors cult reconsidered”
A. Willi, “Before the dithyramb”
R. Janko, “Archaeological versus linguistic interpretations of the Greek Dark Age: the power of wishful thinking”
R. Osborne, “What sort of a political world should we posit for the 8th century BCE?”

La religion micénica

On 28-29 September 2023 a symposium entitled La religion micénica: conceptos, prácticas, objetos was held in Segovia. Further information is available at https://extension.uned.es/actividad/32911&codigo=. The program was:
C. Varias García, “La religión de Micenas en las fuentes textuales y arqueológicas”
A. Bernabé, “En torno a ki-ri-te-wi-ja”
J. M. Jiménez Delgado, “La sacerdotisa Erita, los ko-to-no-o-ko y las parcelas ke-ke-me-na de pa-ki-ja-ne: personal religioso y tenencia de tierras en Pilo”
H. Whittaker, “From Bronze to Iron; the Demise of Mycenaean Religion”
E. R. Luján, J. Piquero, and I. Serrano, “De animales y máscaras: sobre los zoónimos micénicos”
J. Weilhartner, “Mycenaean kings and the divine sphere: some thoughts on a ‘complicated relationship’”
S. Lupack, “Reconsidering Religion in the Throne Room: Religious Authority in Mycenaean Society”
F. Díez Platas, “Sillas, vasos y gestos: sobre la iconografía de la celebración cultual del vino en la imaginería micénica”
F. Blakolmer, “Why are we unable to identify the deities of the Linear B texts in Mycenaean iconography?”
M. Perna, “Religione e scrittura nella società minoica e micenea”
C. Varias García, A. Bernabé, J. Weilhartner, F. Blakolmer, and H. Whittaker, “Progress and Perspectives in the study of Mycenaean Religion”
September 2023 issue available

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The September 2023 issue of Nestor (50.9) is available as a free download.
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31 August 2023

Symbolism, Pre-Writing, and Writing

On 4 September proposals (300 words maximum) with author biographies (100 words maximum) are due for a volume entitled Symbolism, Pre-Writing and Writing in Neolithic Anatolia, Fertile Crescent and Europe: An Introduction to Pre Historic Symbolism, to be published by Peter Lang in the series “South-East European History” Further information is available at https://www.balkan-history.com/neolithic-symbolism/.

AEA 2023

On 15 September 2023 (extended deadline) abstracts are due for the 43rd Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology: Telling Environmental Archaeology Stories (AEA 2023), to be held on 24-26 November 2023 in Tarragona, Spain. Further information is available at https://icac.cat/en/dissemination/icac-activities/43rd-aea-conference/. Papers in standard format (15 minutes), storytelling format (6 minutes) or poster format (A1 size) are invited on:
• Social relations and the role of different social groups in shaping society and economy
• The role of immigration/movement in changing society, how this took place, and its repercussions
• Past cosmologies and belief systems
• How people or groups of people perceived and acted on issues of health and medicine
• How people or groups of people engaged with their environment: reconstructing rural or urban histories of interactions
• People and societies as the main actors impacting landscapes, geographies, and environments
• Local versus global narratives
• Key events of the past (agricultural and farming developments, emergence of new forms of socio-economic organisation, and what these meant or how they changed life, etc.)
• Communicating environmental archaeology stories:
o Environmental archaeology contributions to policy making and impact
o Successful stories of communicating and disseminating environmental archaeology research to researchers of other fields and the public
o Environmental archaeology and the press
o Environmental archaeology and impact on education
o Inclusive environmental archaeology

BANEA 2024

On 6 October 2023 session abstracts (250 words) are due for the annual conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA 2024). Archaeological and heritage practice in Southwest Asia: towards equitable futures, to be held on 3-5 January 2024 in Glasgow. Further information is available at https://www.banea.org/banea24. The sessions and workshops are:
• Archaeological fairness
• Landscape
• Digital archaeologies
• Field reports
• Foodways
• Social worlds
• Achaemenid Environments: Agenda-setting economic, landscape, environmental and bioarchaeological approaches to Achaemenid Impact
• The Archaeology and Cultural Heritage of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region
• Big Dig Energy: Gendered practices and internalised patriarchy in archaeological fieldwork in West Asia
• Dialogues Across Landscapes: New Challenges to Practicing Landscape Archaeology in Western Asia
• When is Urban, Really? Looking Back, Moving Forward – Exploring temporalities of Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia in the present: A workshop celebrating historic innovations in early urban archaeology, and tackling current challenges to the field
• Whose Heritage Is it? A Discussion on Community Engagement and Local Counter-narratives in Archaeology of Southwest Asia

LAC 2024

On 31 October 2023 session abstracts are due for the 8th Landscape Archaeology Conference: Human Challenges in a Context of Changing Landscapes (LAC 2024), to be held on 10-14 June 2024 at Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. From 1 December 2023 through 29 February 2024 submission of abstracts for papers and posters will be open. Further information is available at https://lac2024.com/. The themes of the conference are:
• Mobility, settlement and people: an environmental approach
• Places, people and identity: a conceptual challenge for Landscape Studies
• Space vs site: human dynamics in landscape
• Cutting-edge technologies and theories: a new perspective from Landscape Archaeology
• Knowledge transfer and local communities in Landscape Studies
• Landscape heritage values
• Climate change and ancient natural and human-shaped landscapes: interdisciplinary approaches
• Landscape Archaeology: visual and virtual perceptions
• Landscape Archaeology and Landscape Ecology
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UISPP 2023

On 5-9 September 2023 the UISPP XX World Congress: Interdisciplinarity in Archaeology will be held in Timişoara, Romania. Further information is available at https://uispp2023.uvt.ro/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. García Suárez, “Continuity and change in Neolithic earthen architecture an Anatolian case study”
O. Palli, E. Pavlidou, L. Malletzidou, T. T. Zorba, I. Nazlis, G. Kourtessi-Philippakis, S. Andreou, and S. Triantafyllou, “Multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of residues on quartz tools from the Bronze Age Thessaloniki Toumba, Greece”
A. Vintaloro, “L’arrivée de l’artisanat en Sicile depuis la mer Égée génère des sociétés guerrières”
M. Truffi and F. Nomi, “Federico Halbherr, a pioneer of Mediterranean archaeology”
G. Iliadis, D. Cardoso, and S. Dadaki, “Representations of footprints in north Aegean rock art. The site of ‘Tsigkri’ in the island of Thassos”
T. Scarano, C. Cavazzuti, G. E. De Benedetto, R. Jung, L. Mazzotta, G. Patrizi, J. H. Sterba, and A. Arena, “Organic Residue and Trace Element Analyses from Aegean-type ceramics from Roca Vecchia (Le, IT)”
G. Herzlinger and N. Galanidou, “The Acheulean Large Cutting Tool assemblage from Rodafnidia, and other Lower Palaeolithic localities on Lesbos, Greece: A 3D morpho-technological cross-regional comparative analysis”

YRA 2023

On 4-6 October 2023 the 6th workshop for Young Researchers in Archaeometry 2023 (YRA 2023) will be held at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in hybrid format. Further information is available at https://yrarch.github.io/current.html. Posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. Tsafou, “Minoan cooking vessels: An interdisciplinary approach on their function and use”
August 2023 summer communications available

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Grants and Fellowships

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31 July 2023

INSTAP Publication Team Grants

Publication Team Grant applications are available from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP). There is no specific deadline for this class of application; please apply at least 2 months or more prior to the start date. Excavation directors may apply for technical archaeological services for preparation of their publications. Projects that are finished with excavation and are preparing material for publication are eligible. Further information and applications are available at http://www.aegeanprehistory.net/downloads/2022-Application-INSTAP-Publication-Team-Grant%2012-20-22.pdf.

Tytus Scholars and Cincinnati Summer Residency Programs

On 15 March 2024 applications are due for both the Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars Program and the Cincinnati Summer Residency Program for 2024-2025. Applicants for the Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars Program will ordinarily be a minimum of five years beyond receipt of the PhD, with notable publication histories, who are expected to be in residence at the University of Cincinnati for one semester (ca. four months). Tytus Scholars receive a monthly stipend of $1,500 plus housing near campus and a transportation allowance, as well as office space attached to the Burnam Classics Library.
Applicants for the Cincinnati Summer Residency program are scholars who would benefit from the use of a world-class classics library with their Ph.D. in hand by the time of application, and will ordinarily be in residence at the University of Cincinnati for approximately two months in the summer terms, May to mid-August. Cincinnati Summer Residents receive housing near campus and office space attached to the Burnam Classics Library. Further information and application forms are available at https://classics.uc.edu/departments/classics/tytus.
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31 July 2023

CAA 2024

On 20 August 2023 proposals for sessions (1000 words) are due for the 51st Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2024): Across the Horizon, to be held on 8-12 April 2024 in Auckland, New Zealand. From 11 September through 9 October 2023 the call for papers, posters, and workshops will be open. Further information is available at https://2024.caaconference.org/.

Perfume Production in the Ancient World

On 30 August 2023 abstracts (300–500) are due for a conference entitled Perfume Production in the Ancient World, to be held on 6-8 November 2023 in Prague, Czechia. Further information is available at https://www.alchemiesofscent.org/conference-2023.

NASC 2023

On 31 August 2023 abstracts (250 words maximum) are due for the National Student Archaeology Conference (NASC 2023): Intersectionality, to be held in hybrid format on 22-24 September 2023 at the University of Melbourne. Further information is available at https://www.nascaustralia.com/.

In Poseidons Realm XXIX

On 30 October 2023 abstracts (250 words plus 2 figures) are due for the conference In Poseidons Realm XXIX: The cultural heritage at and in Lake Constance, to be held on 8-12 May 2024 at the Vorarlberg Museum in Bregenz, Austria; as with all IPR conferences, contributions from all areas of research on underwater archaeology and heritage are welcome. Further information is available at http://www.deguwa.org/.
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EAA 2023

On 30 August - 2 September 2023 the 29th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists: Weaving Narratives (EAA 2023) will be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Further information is available at https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2023. Based on the preliminary program, papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
D. J. Fallu, “The Geoarchaeology of a Bronze Age Aegean Engineered Agricultural Landscape at Choiromandres, Eastern Crete”
A. Zanescu, “Accuracy, not Authenticity: How Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Leverages Archaeology for Resonance”
T. Moutsiou, “Settling the Eastern Mediterranean islands: Persisting narratives of hunter-gatherer marginality and the case of Cyprus”
S. Menelaou, “‘It’s a matter of perspective’: deciphering marginality between the Aegean Sea and Anatolia through a diachronic approach”
C. Papoulia, “On routes, tools and sea-vessels: the 'SeaROOTS 2022-2024' project”
T. Strasser, “Seasonality on an Inhospitable Island: The Asphendou Cave Petroglyphs”
I. Nakas, “The galley culture of the Aegean from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age”
D. Gal, “Potential Sailing Mobility in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Eastern Mediterranean: Inter-regional Challenges and Intra-regional Opportunities”
A. Gilboa, “The emergence of the Phoenician Mediterranean phenomenon: environment, histoire évènementielle and agency”
J. M. Martin Garcia, “Mediterranean trade circuits. How did Ceramics Travel in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean? The Case of Tell Abu Hawam”
D. Pullen, “A Late Bronze Age ‘Naval Station’ at Kalamianos (Saronic Gulf), Greece?”
P. Elefanti, “The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Aegean: a review of the Greek evidence”
F. Meneghetti, “Juggling size, typology, and people: an interdisciplinary study of the small-size pottery from Late Bronze Age Cyprus”
A. C. Solomou, “Thinking through peak sanctuary rituals: approaching the minds embodied and embedded in anthropomorphic figurines from Cretan peak sanctuaries”
M. Boyd, “Integrated archaeological investigation of a maritime territory. Habitation and connectivity in the Small Cyclades archipelago, Greece”
M. Gurova, “Chalcolithic flint superblades from Bulgaria – a biographical perspective”
K. Athanasiou, “Sculpting an island: a diachronic perspective on traditional terrace – drystone system and its environment on Therasia island, Greece (Arch2Plant)”
S. Lekakis, “Upsetting heritage givens: The case of rural heritage on the island of Naxos, Greece”
F. S. Wood, “The Pylos Combat Agate”
C. Alam, “Examining the transmission and adoption of ceramic innovations in Western Anatolia and the Aegean using a cultural evolutionary framework”
Y. P. de Raaff, “Quantifying household inequality in Middle Helladic Greece”
A. I. Alpay, “The Early Bronze Age of Anatolia: The Issue of Social Complexity”
S. Souvatzi, “Social complexity and egalitarianism: the case of the Neolithic societies in Greece and Turkey”
M. Devolder, “Fire/Earth/People. An architectural and geoarchaeological study of the Malia Palace earthen building materials”
L. Recht, “Production, storage and abandonment practices at Late Bronze Age Erimi Pitharka, Cyprus”
N. Naiboglu, “Tavşanlı Höyük: A large Bronze Age town in Inland Western Anatolia”
E. Kalogiropoulou, “Looking outdoors and beyond: social practices, settlement spaces and community structures in the Greek Neolithic”
K. Tsirtsi, “Starch granule analysis under discussion: the case of 2nd millennium BCE Cyprus”
E. Tsafou, “The application of the organic residue analyses on the study of Minoan ceramic vessels from the 2nd millenium BCE Crete”
Ev. Voulgari, “Flows, transformations, and temporalities in pots' life history: the case of neolithic Dispilio, North Greece”
S. Katsarou, “The biography of a Neolithic storage jar in Laconia, Greece”
S. German, “Finding ‘Others’ and the Individual in the Aegean Bronze Age”
M. Lin, “The construction of social identity in Early Iron Age Greek: from the mortuary perspective”
V. Argyropoulos, “Dymaia Chora decoded: the social dynamics of region of western Achaea at NW Peloponnese through funerary practices”
E. Panagiotopoulou, “Social structure, dietary variation and mobility in Early Iron Age, Greece”
A. Bonnier, “Trade, food supply and cultivation strategies in Attica during the first millennium BCE: an integrative approach”
F. Dibble, “The Zooarchaeology of Ancient Crete. Bones, Isotopes, People, and Environment”
V. Loescher, “Carpenter’s hoards in Minoan Crete, metallic toolkits? Reassessment of the contexts and assemblages of a specific kind of deposit”
C. Spiteri, “The exploitation of lignite in the Bronze Age Aegean revealed through biomolecular analysis”
R. Winter, “Grouping groupers: using collagen peptide mass fingerprinting to demonstrate 4000 years of Epinephelus aeneus abundance in Iskenderun Bay, Turkey”
M. Hinz, “Settlement dynamics at Lake Ohrid from a wetland perspective. Results of the excavations at Lin, Albania, 2022-23”
T. Giagkoulis, “(Re)contextualizing legacies: new results from the study of the architecture of the Neolithic Dispilio lake settlement”
M. Hostettler, “Submerged settlements of Albania, North Macedonia and Greece. Intermediary report of the archaeological research in the ERC EXPLO Project”
P. Cosyns, “Core-formed glass vessels in the Eastern Mediterranean. Defining their distribution and consumption during the late Bronze Age”
K. Nikita, “Glass workshops in Mycenaean Greece: identification, structure and operation”
A. Oikonomou, “Science behind taxonomy: Decoding Mycenean vitreous artefacts’ degradation”
E. C. Papoulias, “How can an expansion of an academic museum enhance the narrative of the permanent collection of Athens University History Museum”
S. L. Hilker, “Moving the Community: Habitation Mobility in LBA Greece”
T. S. Andreovits, “Bodily Performances and Ideals in the Miniature Seal Imagery of Bronze Age Aegean”
A. Simandiraki-Grimshaw, “Shifting bodily aesthetics and social change in Bronze Age Crete”
I. Chatzikonstantinou, “Biological profiles of cremated individuals from prehistoric Greece”
M. Psallida, “Water management in Mycenaean period. Evidence from a technical work found in East Attica, Greece”
B. Molloy, “Climate change and social collapse in prehistory: A lost cause?”
E. Borgna, “Mediterranean mobility and the 3200 BP transformative landscape: the case of Phaistos, central Crete”
S. Sabatini, “Oxhide ingots in the Central Mediterranean: innovation, adaptation and resilience”
F. Georgiadis, “How can we use mainstream cave survey techniques in cave archaeology? The Drakotrypa cave, Thasos island Greece”
F. Ifantidis, “Teeth of shell, fish of antler: Imitation and skeuomorphism in Greek Neolithic personal adornment”
A. Barouda, “Technologies and Traditions of Pottery and Plaster Production at Neolithic Makri, Thrace, Greece”
T. Papadakou, “Feeding the clay: where plant management and clay technologies converge”
M. Giannakopoulou, “Show me your metallurgist and I’ll tell you who you are: Secondary metallurgical production in the Early Bronze Age Aegean”
N. Papakonstantinou, “The technology of fire in prehistoric Aegean: retracing the chaîne operatoire of fire-induced manipulation of human remains”
T. Bekiaris, “Technologies by the lake: Reconstructing the manufacture sequences of ground stone celts from Late Neolithic Dispilio, NW Greece”
J. R. Baxley Craig, “Multicrafting in Houses at Late Bronze Age Ayia Irini, Kea (Cyclades, Greece)”
D. Kloukinas, “A temporal approach of house construction in Neolithic northern Greece”
A. Stroulia, “Ochre Chaînes Opératoires in Neolithic Greece: The Case of Kremasti-Kilada”
A. Papaioannou, “Connecting the traces: the use of mats and other materials in the construction sequences of ceramic vessels”
A. Kita, “Capturing the moment: Practices and chipped stone tools at the Neolithic site of Dispilio”
Y. Papadias, “Amidst clays and stones: raw material choices and cross-craft interactions in Late Neolithic Avgi, NW Greece”
A. Nikolopoulou, “Metallurgical practices in the Aegean during the Early Bronze Age: the case of the underwater hoard of Rhodope Prefecture”
K. Paschalidis, “The secret of the Treasury of Atreus”
E. Tsangaraki, “Filling in the blank pages of an object’s biography: an out-of-context stone axe in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki”
A. Lekka, “Private collections of antiquities in Greece: For every object, there is a story to tell”
Q. Drillat, “Economic and social dynamics of central Cretan mountainous borderlands in the first millennium BC”
S. Voutsaki, “The Ayios Vasileios North Cemetery project: bioarchaeology in the 21st century”
K. A. Jazwa, “Building Information: Architectural Traditions of Mainland Greece at the end of the Early and Middle Bronze Ages”
X. Jia, “Archaeogenomic pilot research of Kamenice, a prehistoric Albanian tumulus (1600-500 BCE)”
A. Mittnik, “Archaeogenetic insights into marital practices and family structures of the Bronze Age Aegean”
P. Erdil, “Establishing an Absolute Chronology for Ayios Vasileios North Cemetery”
A. Maczkowski, “First absolute dating of a Neolithic site in the Balkans: annual radiocarbon and the tree-ring chronologies from Dispilio (Greece)”
J. P. Demoule, “Çatalhöyük and the Balkan Neolithic: why so different?”
M. Nowak, “The Çatalhöyük and the Neolithic in the Balkans and central Europe. Prehistoric Past and Archaeological Present”
A. Marciniak, “The arrhythmic Neolithic. The Çatalhöyük trajectory of development and its recurrence in southeastern and central Europe”
P. F. Biehl, “The End of Çatalhöyük and the European Neolithic”
R. Campbell, “Digitally digging Dhaskalio: payoffs and pitfalls in 3D GIS as an interactive database”
N. Saridaki, “Pottery for cooking in the Neolithic settlement of Avgi Kastoria, NW Greece. Wares and fabric recipes”
A. Dimoula, “Neolithic cooking ceramic fabrics: technological characteristics, functional properties and evidence of use”
M. Lymperaki, “Culinary Traditions of Late Neolithic Northern Greece: What Cooking Pots Can Tell Us about the Food Culture(s) of the Area”
T. Dzhanfezova, “Tiny bites of the cooking archives: towards the food culture(s) of Early Neolithic Bulgaria (from ceramic technology perspective)”
E. Vika, “Food Inequality in Bronze Age Aegean: a view from stable isotope studies”
S. V. Todaro, “Making for the masses? Production and consumption of plain handleless cups in Early Bronze Age Phaistos (Crete)”
B. de Groot, “Technological innovations and mass production: considering the spread of the potter’s wheel”
H. M. Herrick, “Stone to Surface: Experimental lime production and the analysis of Late Bronze Age plaster floors at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, Cyprus”
J. Fort, “What do archaeological and genetic data tell us about the dispersal and interbreeding behaviour of early Mediterranean farmers?”
A. Reingruber, “Time and its perception(s) in archaeological discourses: the case of the Neolithisation process of the Circum-Aegean sphere”
M. Somel, “Population dynamics during the Neolithization of West Anatolia”
B. A. Rasmussen, “A Linguistic Approach to the Neolithization of the Mediterranean with special respect to the Balkan group”
T. Carter, “Building Castles on Sand: Current Models on the Impact of Insular Aegean Hunter-Gatherer Populations on Neolithisation Processes”
A. S. Kassian, “Phylogeny of the Indo-European languages: state of the art”
P. D. Tomkins, “Neolithization after colonialism? Doctrine, data and the initial dispersal of farming in the maritime East Mediterranean (7000-6500 BC)”
J. Anvari, “Towards an understanding of the Neolithic landscape of the Korça plain, Albania”
M. Ergun, “Comparing the ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ Neolithic in western Macedonia, Greece: the archaeobotany of Dispilio and Avgi”
E. Panagiotakopulu, “Fossil insects and the Neolithic – First results from Dispilio, Greece”
V. Isaakidou, “The wet and the dry in the Neolithic of Greece: disentangling taphonomy, site location and strategies of animal exploitation”
D. Vidas, “Reconstructing Neolithic caprine diets: a multiproxy analysis of dung pellets from Neolithic Dispilio, western Macedonia, and contemporary feeding studies”
E. Angliker, “Despotiko: A site for learning archaeology through sensorial experiences”
F. Fragkopoulou, “Columnar figurines from Early Iron Age ritual sites and early Archaic sanctuaries in Laconia”
E. Gkatzogia, “Ethnographical and archaeobotanical research in Therasia island in Cyclades within the framework of Arch2Plant project”
E. Stavridou, “A leap from the prehistoric to the modern agrodiversity and flora of Therasia. An integrated approach of the Arch2Plant project”
E. G. Fregni, “The Vounous Symposium: Building community through craft and experimental archaeology”
C. A. M. Minos, “New Technology, New Recipe? Experimental Reconstruction of Clay Pastes for the Production of Late Cypriot Plain White Pottery from Enkomi”
E. Trinder, “Blending the land of the living with the land of the dead: Bronze and Iron Age burial mounds in Albania”
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30 June 2023

ScapeCon 6

On 30 June 2023 abstracts (350 words maximum) are due from Early Career/Postdoc researchers, Ph.D. candidates, and Master students for the 6th Ιnternational Conference of ScapeCon: Contextualizing Fire in Aegean Prehistory (ScapeCon 6), to be held on 2-3 December 2023 hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/ScapeCon/ or from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

2nd Symposium on the Archaeology of Western Anatolia

On 9 September 2023 abstracts (2-4 pages with 2-3 figures) are due for the Second International Symposium on the Archaeology of Western Anatolia: Archaeology and history of the Cayster (Küçük Menderes) Valley in south-eastern inland part of Izmir, to be held on 17-18 November 2023 in Izmir, Turkey. Further information is available at this site. The themes of the conference will be the following:
• Recent archaeological field projects (excavations and surveys) and museum studies as well as discoveries in and around the Cayster (Küçük Menderes) Valley, in i.e., Tire, Ödemiş, Bayındır, Kiraz, Beydağ, and Torbalı
• The Cayster Valley in ancient mythology
• Prehistorical and protohistorical researches in the Cayster Valley
• The Cayster Valley during the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods
• The Cayster Valley in ancient authors, eg., Homer, Herodotus, Strabo etc
• Ethno-cultural landscape of the ancient Cayster Valley and ethnoarchaeology
• Epigraphical research in the Cayster Valley
• Numismatic research in the Cayster Valley: circulations, dynamics and mechanisms
• Relationships between the Cayster Valley and other parts of Lydia and Ionia, the Achaemenid Empire as well as other neighbouring regions
• Historical geography and settlement patterns in the Cayster Valley during the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods
• Ancient roads, routes and population in the Cayster Valley
• The Cayster Valley as a part of the Roman province Asia
• The Cayster Valley under the tetrarchy reform of Emperor Diocletian in A.D. 296
• Population and settlement boom in the “Justinianic” era in the region of the Cayster Valley
• Thracesian Theme in western Asia Minor
• Archaeometric researches in the Cayster Valley
• Miscellanea

Trade Routes and Seafaring in the Ancient Near East

Interest in participating in the Fifty Sixth International Conference of the ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies: Trade Routes and Seafaring in the Ancient Near East, to be held on 15-17 July 2024 at the Institute of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Oxford, should be sent to ARAM’s Oxford address: ARAM Society, the Institute of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England; tel. 01865-514041; email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Further information is available at http://www.aramsociety.org/ or from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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Ancient Egyptian Historical Chronology

On 11-13 July 2023 a conference entitled Tempus Fugit: Challenging Time(s) and Text(s) in Order to Refine Ancient Egyptian Historical Chronology will be held in hybrid format in Vienna. Further information is available at https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/events/event-detail/tempus-fugit. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
J. Lull García, “Chronology and Spread of the ‘Amarna Plague’”

ICAZ 2023

On 7-12 September 2023 the 14th International Council for Archaeozoology Conference (ICAZ 2023): Oceans and Coastline – Past, Present and Future will be held in Cairns, Australia. Further information is available at https://www.icaz2023.org/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Hadjikoumis, “Starting from Scratch: Setting up an Accessible Faunal Reference Collection in Cyprus”
J. Meier, “A Tale of Two Tali: A Context-Based Faunal Study of the Ritual Landscape of Mycenae in the Late Bronze Age”

The Connected Past 2023

On 12-15 September 2023 the conference The Connected Past: Digital Methods for Studying Networks and Complexity in the Humanities (The Connected Past 2023) will be held in Helsinki. Further information is available at https://connectedpast.net/other-events/helsinki-2023/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
T. Sager, “The Life of Buildings: 3D scanning and modelling architectural change in Late Bronze Age Crete”
June 2023 summer communications available

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The June 2023 summer communications from Nestor (50.6) are available as a free download.
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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”
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The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Kydonia/Khania

On 26-27 May 2023 an international conference entitled Signs of the Times – The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Kydonia/Khania was held in hybrid format, hosted in Stockholm by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Further information is available at https://www.sia.gr/en/articles.php?tid=807. The program was:
A. Karivieri, “Welcome to Stockholm! The Department of Classical Studies at Stockholm University 75 years”
J. Wallensten, “The Swedish Institute at Athens 75 years and the importance of the Greek-Swedish and Greek-Swedish-Danish field projects”
M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki, “The Minoan Habitation under the Town of Khania”
E. Hallager, “The Greek-Swedish- and Greek-Swedish-Danish excavations and their impact on Minoan Crete”
B. P. Hallager, “The local Kydonia pottery workshop and its impact”
E. Protopapadaki, “Prepalatial pottery groups from the Greek–Swedish Excavations at the Agia Aikaterini square, Kastelli Chania”
O. Krzyszkowska, “Late Minoan Seals and Sealing Practices: Insights from Khania”
D. Evely, “The nature of the small finds from Kastelli, Khania”
A.-L. Schallin, “Terracotta figurines from Khania”
A. Sarpaki, “The archaeobotanical landscape of Bronze Age Kydonia/ Chania”
D. Mylona, “Earthquakes, pastoral economics and religious fervor: animal sacrifice at LM IIIB Kydonia, (Khania)”
V. Petrakis, “Total ku-do-ni-ja: integrating archaeological and textual evidence in the study of a remarkable centre in LM II-IIIB Crete”
P. J. P. McGeorge, “The human bones from the Minoan graves and Katre 1, Khania”
G. Vidén, “Conclusion – from a personal point of view
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The May 2023 issue of Nestor (50.5) is available as a free download.
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YRA 2023

On 15 May 2023 abstracts (250 words maximum) are due for the 6th workshop for Young Researchers in Archaeometry 2023 (YRA 2023), to be held on 4-6 October 2023 at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in hybrid format. Further information and the link to submit abstracts are available at https://yrarch.github.io/current.html.

2024 Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA 2024)

On 16 June 2023 workshop proposals are due for the 2024 Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA 2024). Archaeological and heritage practice in Southwest Asia: towards equitable futures, to be held on 3-5 January 2024 at the University of Glasgow; on 6 October 2023 paper submissions are due. Further information is available at https://www.banea.org/banea24. Session topics will include:
• Archaeological fairness. E.g., decolonising practice; cultural heritage practice, archaeological labour relations; community engagement, equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Landscape. E.g., theoretical and methodological approaches to landscape; socio-ecological dynamics, the use of archaeological science in climate change discourse.
• Digital archaeologies. E.g., Digital recording and representation of archaeology; big data; web and technology-based public engagement.
• Field reports. E.g., ongoing and recently completed fieldwork results.
• Foodways. E.g., subsistence practices, food webs, and cultural identities; commensal equipment, chaîne opératoires, and vibrant materialities; bioarchaeology and isotope studies
• Social worlds. E.g., social interaction and interpretative approaches to it; inequality; art and literature, including modern reception and representations.

SAA 2024

On 7 September 2023 submissions, both session and individual (abstracts 200 words maximum), are due for the Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting (SAA 2024), to be held on 17-21 April 2024 in New Orleans. Further information is available at https://www.saa.org/annual-meeting.
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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”
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30 April 2023

Abundance and Scarcity in the Ancient Mediterranean World

On 21-22 April 2023 a graduate student conference entitled Abundance and Scarcity in the Ancient Mediterranean World was held by the Harvard Department of the Classics in Cambridge, MA. Further information is available at https://abundancescarcity2023.wordpress.com/?fbclid=IwAR1Ygn0jZuGiVrtiphF0wPqaPC1mloMuJpy_uOUY8SYF_ciPDw5P46pjDUU. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
E Cline, “Aspects of Abundance and Scarcity during the Late Bronze Age and After in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean”
R. McKay, “Choices in Common: The Management of Common-Pool Resources and the Evidence of Collective Action in Bronze Age Messenia”

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