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The July 2024 summer communications from Nestor (51.7) are available as a free download.

Χώμα Νερό Φωτιά. Earth Water Fire

On 4-7 July 2024 a series of cultural events entitled Χώμα Νερό Φωτιά. Earth Water Fire will be held at Thrapsano, Crete, sponsored by the Thrapsano Cultural Association in collaboration with British School at Athens. Further information is available from https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/earth-water-fire-2024/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0OL3Qb86w0zcl6uSolaxCZrormBWev1Y9AjkA-q31ZjdAnkBdx2j9iJOw_aem_UceGdjryZ9LIpccGXY3U0Q. Events of interest to Nestor readers will include:
Κ. Χρηστάκης, “Τα κρητικά πιθάρια: οι απαρχές. Cretan pithoi: The origins”
Workshop by the Κέντρο Μελέτης Νεώτερης Κεραμεικής: Θεές των όφεων: Χθόνιες θεότητες και φίδια συνθέτουν ένα εργαστήριο κεραμικής με έμπνευση από την μινωική κεραμική. Μικροί και μεγάλοι θα δημιουργήσουν κεραμικά με έμπνευση τα μινωικά αγγεία και ειδώλια. Τα έργα των συμμετεχόντων θα ψηθούν στο ξυλοκάμινο το Βράδυ της Κυριακής. Snake Goddesses: Chthonic deities and snakes at a pottery workshop drawing inspiration from Minoan ceramics. Young and old will create ceramics inspired by Minoan vases and figurines. The pieces produced will be fired in the wood kiln on Sunday evening.
Ε. Γαλή, “Το κρητικό τοπίο μέσα από τις Μινωικές τοιχογραφίες. The Cretan landscape through the Minoan frescoes”
Workshop by Ν. Λιάρος: Στη φωτιά του καμινιού! Ψnνουμε τα κεραμικά από το μινωικό εργαστήριο τnς Παρασκευής σε ξυλοκάμινο, ομοίωμα προϊστορικού κλιβάνου. Fired in the kiln: We fire the pottery from the Minoan workshop on Friday in a wood kiln, a copy of a prehistoric kiln.

The June 2023 summer communications from Nestor (50.6) are available as a free download.

ATINER 2024

On 3-6 June 2024 the 22nd Annual International Conference on History and Archaeology: From Ancient to Modern (ATINER 2024) will be held by the History Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research in Athens. Further information is available at https://www.atiner.gr/history. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
K. Glowacki, “Advances in the Household Archaeology of Ancient Crete: The Minoan Prepalatial Period”
E. Zeqo, “The Place Name Da-mi-ni-jo/ja in the Linear B Script and Albania’s City of Durrës (Epidamnos, Dyrrachion, Dyrrachium, Durazzo): Towards Epidamnos’ Chronology from Minos to Pericles”

Regional Mobilities and the Making of the Ancient Greek World

On 6-8 June 2024 a conference entitled Regional Mobilities and the Making of the Ancient Greek World will be held at the University
of Vienna. Further information is available at https://www.migmag-erc.eu/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
N. Mac Sweeney, “Migration and the Making of the Ancient Greek World: the work of the MIGMAG project”
J. Mokrišová, “MIGMAG case study – Ionia”
E. Koparal, “MIGMAG partner project – the Klazomenai Survey Project”
A. Slawisch and T. Wilkinson, “Mobility as mode of thinking: Perspectives from Project Panormos”
B. Hürmüzlü and S. Togan, “Indigenous culture, mobility, and cultural interaction in Pisidia”
C. Bachhuber, M. Massa, and J. Osborne, “The Konya Plain
N. Mac Sweeney and T. Maltas, “MIGMAG case study – Rough Cilicia”
N. Mac Sweeney, T. E. Şerifoğlu, and A. Collar, “MIGMAG partner project – the Lower Göksu Archaeological Salvage Survey Project”
M. Novák, “Mopsos, Hiyawa and the alleged Greek immigration in Cilicia. Settlement continuity vs. modern myths”
M. Iacovou, “Cyprus before and after the 12th century BC: a macrohistoric landscape approach”
J. Osborne, “Reconsidering mobility in the Syro-Anatolian region, 1200-600 BCE
E. Kopanaki, “MIGMAG case study – East Lokris
K. Sporn and P. Kounouklas, “The Kephissos-valley project. Human-Nature Interaction in Central Greece”
S. Fachard, “Eretria”
S. Gimatzidis, “Greek migration between colonial seascapes and indigenous landscapes in the northern Aegean
M. Rönnberg, “Attica”
S. Murray, “Settlement, economy, and mobility in Postpalatial Greece: a view from Porto Rafti in Attica”
B. Eder, “A region in the making: Elis between 1200 and 700 BC”
N. Mac Sweeney, “Introduction (to Workshop on Myths of Migration) and the MIGMAG approach”
C. Hansen, “The results of the MIGMAG analysis
M. Pyzyk, “A new digital tool for visualising mythic migrations”

LAC 2024

On 10-14 June 2024 the 8th Landscape Archaeology Conference: Human Challenges in a Context of Changing Landscapes (LAC 2024) will be held in Alcal. de Henares, Madrid, Spain. Further information is available at https://lac2024.com/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
B. Keramida, “Exploring Socio-Political Dynamics in the Bronze Age North-East Peloponnese: A Computational Approach”
F. Carbotti, “‘There are Prehistoric cities up there’. Methodological insights on fortified hilltop sites in southern Albania”
J. Starke, F. Becker, R. Busch, B. Ludwig, M. Nykamp, and B. Schütt, “(Late) Holocene landscape development of the lower Bakırçay plain (Pergamon Micro-Region, western Türkiye) and its modern alteration”

The May 2024 issue of Nestor (51.5) is available as a free download.

Between the Indus and the Aegean in the Bronze Age

The call for abstracts (250 words maximum) has been extended 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. Anyone who wishes to present or simply attend is invited to contact the organisers on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The proceedings of the First International Workshop, held in December 2022, will be published later this year by Archaeopress of Oxford.

SIMEP 2024

On 10 May 2024 abstracts are due for an international conference entitled Social Interactions in Mediterranean Prehistory (SIMEP 2024), to be held on 21-23 October 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. This conference aims to become a meeting point for researchers investigating social interactions in the Mediterranean Basin and its neighbouring regions in Prehistory, from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age. Further information is available at https://simep2024.com/.

World Neolithic Congress 2024

On 20 May 2024 abstracts (250 words) are due for the World Neolithic Congress 2024, to be held on 4-8 November 2024 in Şanlıurfa, Türkiye. The Congress aims to foster new ways of looking and thinking about Neolithic phenomena on both local and global scales and to challenge conventional theories and terminologies on the emergence and the development of productive and newly adapted ways of living. Further information is available at https://worldneolithiccongress.org/Default.aspx.

POCA 2024

On 31 May 2024 abstracts (250 words) are due for the 21st annual Postgraduates in Cypriot Archaeology (POCA 2024) conference, to be held on 21-23 November 2024, hosted in hybrid format by Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin in memory of Professor Petros Florides. Papers on Cypriot archaeology of any period, or on related subjects, will be welcome. Abstracts should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Further information is available at https://pocadublin24.wordpress.com/.
On 1 October 2024 expressions of interest to host the 2025 annual meeting of PoCA are due; on 21 November 2024 at the beginning of the PoCA 2024 meeting after the keynote lecture PowerPoint bids will be presented, with online voting (each paper = one vote) during the 2024 meeting, and the result to be announced at the end of the meeting on the 23 November. Further information and requirements for the organising committee are available at https://pocadublin24.wordpress.com/.

SAA 2025

On 5 September 2024 submissions, both session and individual (abstracts 200 words maximum), are due for the Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting (SAA 2025), to be held on 23-27 April 2025 in Denver, CO. Further information is available at https://www.saa.org/annual-meeting.

MASt Summer 2025

On 15 September 2024 abstracts (750-850 words) are due from early career researchers (graduate students to scholars who have completed their doctoral dissertation within 4 years) for the Summer 2025 Meetings on Aegean Studies (MASt) seminar, to be held online on 27 June 2025; on 31 March 2025 short abstracts (150-300 words) and the preliminary manuscripts (5000 words maximum) will be due, and on 10 July 2025 the revised manuscripts will be due. Proposals on interdisciplinary themes such as analyses of the West and East coast of the Aegean Sea, comparisons of Bronze Age Aegean languages and cultures, Aegean legacy into the 3rd millennium CE are invited. Abstracts should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090014495639, https://www.instagram.com/mast_aegean/, and https://twitter.com/mast_aegean1?t=3Na0Ursa1yixP8DJfrZ1Zw&s=08.

46th International Mediterranean Survey Workshop

On 12-13 April 2024 the 46th International Mediterranean Survey Workshop was held in hybrid format in Athens. Further information is available at https://www.arch.uoa.gr/anakoinoseis_kai_ekdiloseis/proboli_anakoinosis/46o_diethnes_synedrio_international_mediterranean_survey_workshop/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
K. Sbonias and G. Kordatzaki, “The Vrysinas mountain archaeological survey in Crete: Interpreting the Late Minoan IIIC refuge settlement landscape”
M. Gkouma, P. Karkanas, Y. Papadatos, T. Brogan, and C. Sofianou, “In search of a lost city: a geoarchaeological study of the Minoan habitation in the Ierapetra plain”
V. Samaras and Z. Papadopoulou, “Surveying an uninhabited island: Methodological questions, challenges, and perspectives in the intensive field survey of Rheneia (Cyclades, Greece)”
Y. Papadatos and C. Sofianou, “Archaeological “autopsies” in Greece: some thoughts on the basis of the results of two surface surveys in the area of Siteia, East Crete”
A. Katevaini, “Walking the fields with KoBoToolBox at hand”
K. P. Trimmis and L. Tzortzopoulou-Gregory, “Landscape biographies and insular surveys: The case of Australian Paliochora Kythera Archaeological Survey (APKAS)”
M.s Katsianis, “Curating and reassessing geospatial site survey data”
N. Galanidou, P. Tsakanikou, G. Beka, G. Iliopoulos, S. Kübler, A. Zoulia, and J. Tactikos, “The early Palaeolithic settlement of Lesbos: the off-site evidence”
K. Sporn, P. Kounouklas, and W. M. Kennedy, “The Kephissos Valley Project. Current Results and Future Perspectives”
A. Knodell, “Archaeological Lidar in Greece: A Summary of Recent Work”

L’iconographie cynégétique

On 22-26 April 2024 a colloquium entitled L’iconographie cynégétique dans les mondes anciens was held in Paris. Further information is available at http://www.arscan.fr/blog/colloque-liconographie-cynegetique-dans-les-mondes-du-22-au-24-avril-2024-anciens/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
Q. Zarka, “Armes et chasseurs, la representation de la chasse dans la petite glyptique en Egée au cours du Bronze Récent”
E. Drakaki, “Beyond the Lion: The Hunt of Deer and Wild Boars in the Glyptic Iconography of Late Bronze Age Greek Mainland”
M. Cultraro, “I Dreamed a Lion, Indeed a Lioness! Reconstructing an Unknown Hunting Iconography in Mycenaean World”
L. Phialon, “La chèvre et le chien: une analyse des scenes de chasse sur les larnakes égéennes”

SOMA 2024

On 25-27 April 2024 the 25th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA 2024) was held in Zadar, Croatia. Further information is available at https://www.icua.hr/najava/call-for-applications-soma-2024-xxv-symposium-on-mediterranean-archaeology/15. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:
A. Baldiran, “A Harbor of Güllük Bay and a Shipwreck”
A. Famprikatzi, “Small but gold: the flourishing mariners of Chryssi Island”
N. N. Köknar, “Paths in Visible Waterscapes: Milesia and the Maeander Valley during the Late Bronze Age”
S. Caggiano, “The underwater surveys by MPM Project in Cyprus (Limassol)”

Petros D. Goneos Memorial Award

On 30 April 2024 applications from young researchers are due for the third year of the Petros D. Goneos Memorial Award for Studies on the Culture of the Cyclades ($7000) for the academic year 2024-2025; on 3 May 2024 letters of recommendation are due. Further information is available at https://cycladic.gr/en/research/chrimatiko-epathlo-sti-mnimi-petrou-d-goneou/. The Goneos award seeks to encourage, support, and promote high quality research from new researchers who focus on topics related to the culture of the Cyclades from the Neolithic up to the post-Byzantine period or its perception in modern times, approached through disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, and art history, as well as natural and physical sciences. Innovative and pioneering approaches, collaborative, interdisciplinary projects, and the use and development of information technologies are encouraged. Applications should:
• Outline clearly and in detail how this award will enable the proposed research and lead to its completion.
• Demonstrate how the outcomes of the project are expected to contribute to the field by filling research gaps and promoting further research.
• Demonstrate the capability of the researcher/s to achieve the proposed outcomes. This can be proven through past academic achievements, prior publications, and reference letters.

Ceramic Research in the Peloponnese

On 4-6 April 2024 a conference entitled Interdisciplinary Ceramic Research in the Peloponnese – Technological Traditions through the Ages will be held at the Austrian Archaeological Institute Athens. Further information and Zoom links are available at https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/events/event-detail/interdisciplinary-ceramic-research-in-the-peloponnese. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
W. Gauß, I. Iliopoulos, C. Katsarou, A. Koumoussi, E. Alram-Stern, F. Ruppenstein, J. B. Rutter, D. Scahill, R. Smetana, and V. Xanthopoulou, “Ceramic production and consumption at Aigeira from the neolithic to early modern times”
M. Zavadil, “Always and everywhere the same? ‘Adriatic Ware’ from Kakovatos (Elis), Pheneos (Korinthia) and Midea (Argolid)”
E. M. Kreuz, “Close neighbours? The relationship between Aegina and areas adjacent to the Saronic Gulf at the onset of the late Bronze Age”
V. Testolini, C. Burke, R. Klöckl-Zorić, M. Zavadil, E. Alram-Stern, G. Kordatzaki, J. Kraschitzer, V. Xanthopoulou, I. Iliopoulos, and E. Trinkl, “6500 years of pottery making in Pheneos: A longue durée perspective on raw materials, technology, and style”
A. Hein, “Exploring the manufacture and dissemination of ceramics from different perspectives – Is it just about collecting data or about completing the picture?”
S. Gimatzidis, “Cultural motives and social implications of early Greek ceramic technology transfer overseas from an analytical perspective”
J. H. Sterba and H. Mommsen, “Chemical and Archaeological Provenance - Do we mean the same?”
E. Kiriatzi, “Multiscale and diachronic study of ceramic landscapes in the Aegean and the case of the Peloponnese”
I. Iliopoulos, “Clayey georesources in Western Greece: a key to understanding patterns of ceramic manufacture, consumption, and trade in antiquity”
A. Hein and K. Pollatou, “Integrating raw material studies in ceramic provenance studies: The case of the Eastern Aegean region”
V. Xanthopoulou and I. Iliopoulos, “Investigating Geological Resources for Clay Craftsmanship in Northern Peloponnese (Corinthia and Achaea Provinces)”
V. Valantou, M. Kylafi, E. Militsi, and N. Zacharias, “The Pylos Geoarchaeological Program: Ceramic Fabrics at the area”
P. M. Day, “The past and present of craft organization and knowledge transfer: what are we hoping to achieve?”
B. Lis and C. Hale, “The difficult and long beginnings of using the wheel in the NE Peloponnese”
A. Balitsari and E. Kiriatzi, “Craft specialization and clay paste standardization: A comparative study of Argolid and Attica in the Middle Bronze Age”
A. Mercogliano, E. Borgna, P. M. Day, A. Hein, and V. Kilikoglou, “Pottery production and circulation at the MH settlement of the Trapeza”
G. Klebinder-Gauß, “Aeginetan cooking pottery. Tracing mechanisms of production, export and the transfer of potting technologies”

Nemea 100

On 15 April 2024 a conference entitled Nemea 100: From Blegen to Berkeley and Beyond will be held in Berkeley, California. Further information is available at https://nemeacenter.berkeley.edu/nemea-100/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
J. L. Davis, “The Cincinnati Program at Nemea”
J. C. Wright, “Archaeology and Ayiorgitiko: Nemea Through the Ages”
K. Shelton, “Nemea at 100: Current Research and Future Goals”
L. Kvapil, “Beyond the Aidonia Treasure: The Nemea Center and TAPHOS”
M. K. Dabney, “Late Mycenaean Nemea”

SAA 2024

On 17-21 April 2024 the Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting (SAA 2024) will be held in New Orleans, LA. Further information is available at https://www.saa.org/annual-meeting. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
C. Broodbank, “Continental Dynamics and the Shaping of Island Societies”
M. Mina, “Cave of Wonder: A Sacred Topos of Maritime Identities on Kalymnos”
A. Knodell, “The Materiality of Surveillance: Scale, Complexity, and Polity
C. Knappett, “Beyond the Knossian State: Urban Economy and Society at the East Cretan Site of Palaikastro”
T. Ogawa, N. Müller, H. Procopiou, S. Triantaphyllou, and E. Kiriatzi, “Cooking in Clay: A Diachronic Study of Potting and Cooking Traditions in Bronze Age Toumba Thessaloniki, Northern Greece”
D. Fallu, A. Lang, L. Vokotopoulos, F. Gaignerot-Driessen, and A. Brown, “Climate, Vulcanism, and Agricultural Terrace Construction in Late Bronze Age Crete”
A. Simmons, “Son of a Son of a Sailor: Island Life and the Colonization of Cyprus”
T. Cunningham, “Praxis Makes Perfect? The Archaeological Correlates of Social Failure in Minoan Crete”
E. Simoni and O. Christakopoulou, “The ‘Cracking the Code’ Project: Markers of Culture and Networks in Early Iron Age Stamna, Greece”
B. Manquen, T. Garrison, A. Knodell and D. Athanasoulis, “Remote Sensing Remote Islands: Error Analysis of Lidar-Based Archaeological Survey of the Small Cycladic Islands, Greece”
A. Cercone, “Thinking Locally: A Glimpse at Ceramic Production at Küllüoba, Turkey, during the Early Bronze Age”
A. Gaggioli, “Toward a Social Geoarchaeology of Aegean Burial and Ritual at Eleon, Greece”
R. Kulick, “Micromorphology of Earthen Architecture at Palaikastro, Crete”
F. Dibble and R. Madgwick, “Isotopes and Texts: Animal Management Strategies in Ancient Greece”

MAA Best Awards

On 30 May 2024 applications are due for the Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 2024 Best PhD / Master MSc Thesis Award ($800 for each level) for an innovative PhD or MSc defended after January 2022. Further information is available at https://www.maajournal.com/index.php/maa/BestAward.

Women in the Archaeology of Greece II

On 13 March 2024 the second workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece: Tribute to Veronika Mitsopoulos-Leon will take place at the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Athens, co-organized by the École française d’Athènes. Further information is available at https://www.efa.gr/storage/2024/02/Women_in_Archaeology_Programme.pdf. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
M. Mauzy, “Alison Frantz, photographer and scholar – dual paths in archeology”
A. Loudarou and K. Fine, “Excavating the past, caring for the future: the case of Hetty Goldman (ASCSA) and her efforts to rehabilitate and relieve the Jewish communities of Greece after World War I”
A. Papoulakou, “Ευαγγελία Πρωτονοταρίου-Δεϊλάκη (1931 – 2002) … άγνωστες πτυχές του βίου και του έργου της μέσα από τα Αρχεία”

Marks, Marketing and Markets

On 14-15 March 2024 an international hybrid workshop entitled Marks, Marketing and Markets: Investigating the intersection of marking practices and commercial strategies in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age eastern Mediterranean will take place at the Archaeological Research Unit at the University of Cyprus in the frame of the research project ComPAS (ERC Starting Grants, No. 947749), organized by C. M. Donnelly and A. Georgiou. Further information is available at https://www.ucy.ac.cy/compas/workshops/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
N. Hirschfeld, “‘Babbling Pots’”
A. Bevan, “Marks, transactions and entropy in Bronze and Iron Age economies”
J. Webb, “Pre-firing pot marks and marking practices in Early and Middle Bronze Age Cyprus”
A. Karnava, “‘Brand’ identifiers and trade during the 2nd millennium BC in Crete”
C. Donnelly, “Writers who mark or markers who write? The interface between writing, marking, and trade on Late Bronze Age Cyprus”
A. Yasur-Landau, “Scripts of Land and Sea: marks and signs in maritime context in the southern Levant ca. 1500-1200 BCE”
E. Kozal, “Marking practices of Late Bronze Age Anatolia”
A. Kotsonas, “Marks, marketing and markets in the Greek world of the Early Iron Age”

Lidar and Landscapes

On 15 March 2024 a workshop entitled Lidar and Landscapes in the Archaeology of Greece will take place at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Further information is available at https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/events/details/lidar-and-landscapes-in-the-archaeology-of-greece-an-international-workshop. The program will be:
K. Sporn and W. Kennedy, “Lidar-Based Research in the Phokian Kephissos Valley”
S. Fachard and C. Chezeaux, “Lidar-Based Remote Sensing and Ground Truthing in the Eretria-Amarynthos Survey Project”
D. Matsas, M. Page, B. D. Wescoat, C. Witmore, T. G. Garrison, and B. W. Manquen, “The Samothrace Lidar Project”
A. R. Knodell, E. I. Levine, S. Wege, Michaela Fielder-Jellsey, and D. Athanasoulis, “Post-Fieldwork Lidar Applications in Archaeological Surveys: Feature Recognition and Quantification with the Small Cycladic Islands Project”
N. Doneus and M. Doneus, “Terrestrial and Underwater Use of ALS/ALB in Mediterranean Landscapes: Archaeological Prospection for Roman Land Use on the Croatian Coast”
G. Fontana, “Issues of Representativeness in Lidar-Based Landscape Archaeology in Mediterranean Contexts”
T. Talas, “Using Lidar in Geomorphological Mapping: The Case of the Amarynthos River Valley (Euboea, Greece)”
T. Bournas, C. Boutsoukis, and N. Dalampis, “Aerial Survey with Lidar and Photogrammetric Sensors in a Feature-Rich Mediterranean Environment: From Flight Parameters to Feature Extraction”
B. W. Manquen, T. G. Garrison, A. R. Knodell, and D. Athanasoulis, “Visualization, Vectorization, and Verification: Open-Source Lidar Methods for Archaeological Prospection and Accuracy Assessment in Mediterranean Shrublands”
J. García Sánchez, T. Lucas, J. Fonte, L. Donnellan, and J. Waagen, “Drone and Airborne Lidar in Greece: Mediterranean Perspective on Processing Techniques and Cultural Landscapes”
A. Kazolias, V. V. Panagiotidis, and N. Zacharias, “Lidar and Landscapes in Archaeology: The Case of Palaiokastro Pylos, Greece”
S. Pike, C. Drazen, and A. Kemp, “UAV-Based Survey of Ancient White Marble Quarries on Mt. Pentelikon: Challenges and Successes of a Lidar and Photogrammetric Survey in a High Relief Environment”
E. Levine, H. Indgjerd, S. Kristensen, and M. Samdal, “Using UAV Lidar to Reveal Quarried Landscapes on Naxos”
A. Dakouri-Hild, S. Davis, A. Agapiou, and E. Andrikou, “Exploring the Rural Landscape of Attica Using Lidar and Remote Sensing: The Case Study of KASP at Ancient Aphidna”
T. Lucas, “The Lidar survey at Akraiphia (Boeotia): Methodology and First Results”
Z. Papadopoulou, V. Samaras, P. Fylaktos, and A. R. Knodell, “Seeing the Trees through the Forest: Lidar Analysis and the Identification of Ancient Sites in the Busy Built Environment of Southeastern Rheneia”
R. Campbell, D. Athanasoulis, and A. R. Knodell, “Lidar Analysis and Phasing at Multiperiod Sites in Cycladic Landscapes: Examples from the Islets of Amorgos”
K. Trimmis, “Lidar Applications in the Australian Paliochora Kythera Archaeological Survey: Workflows, Paradigms, and Limitations”

Recentering Central Greece

On 21-22 March 2024 a hybrid specialist workshop entitled Recentering Central Greece in the Aegean Middle Bronze Age will take place at the at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Further information is available at https://www.academia.edu/115210676/Recentring_Central_Greece_in_the_Aegean_Middle_Bronze_Age. The program will be:
C. Hale and B. Lis, “Recentring central Greece”
P. Kapsali, “Glancing past life in the Cephissus valley: the pottery from Kalyvia-Ayia Marina as a proxy for understanding shifts in commensal activities in the late 3rd millennium BCE”
I. Mathioudaki and D. Skorda, “The Soultani plot at Kirrha (Phocis) and its contribution to central Greek pottery sequences”
M.-P. Montagné, “Chipped stone tools as a tracer of MBA changes in central Greece: the case of Mitrou (East Lokris) and Kirrha (Phokis)”
R. Worsham, “Questioning the ‘spiritual poverty’ of Middle Helladic Eutresis”
K. Sarri, “Grey’s Anatomy: How Grey Minyan style evolves and how it pairs and merges with other MBA pottery classes”
C. Hale and J. Sterba, “REgional Networks and LOcal Recipes for Complexity: New archaeometric results from Middle Bronze Age central Greece and their implications”
M. Lindblom, “The Middle Helladic to Late Helladic ceramic transition in central Greece”
M.-F. Papakonstantinou, “À la recherche du temps perdu. Recent interdisciplinary research in prominent MH sites of the Spercheios valley and its contribution in recentring the region in the Aegean Middle Bronze Age”
T. Krapf and M.-F. Papakonstantinou, “A Kamares Cup from Middle Helladic Agia Paraskevi at Lamia and its implication for the synchronisation of chronologies”
E. Karantzali, “Local Middle Helladic pottery in the Spercheios valley: Ceramic categories from levelling and cleaning deposits in Frantzi and from a use deposit in Lygaria”
A. Balitsari, “New evidence for the ceramic traditions and the exchange networks in Attica in the first half of the 2nd millennium BCE”
A. Philippa-Touchais and G. Touchais, “Connectivity and interaction between communities of southern mainland Greece (Aspis-Argos and Vranas-Marathon) and central Greece during the MBA”
M. Crego, N. Abell, and J. C. Overbeck, “Ayia Irini IV, Kea, and central Greece”
W. Gauß, “Central Greece and Kolonna. Observations on the Middle Bronze Age ceramic sequence, imports, and exports”
P. Pavúk, “What can coastal western Anatolia tell us about the Middle Helladic period in Greece? Twenty years on”
J. Maran, “Closing thoughts on the state-of-the-art for Middle Bronze Age central Greece”

ΑΕΜΘ 2024

On 28-29 March 2024 the 36th meeting of the conference Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και στη Θράκη (ΑΕΜΘ 2024) will be held in Thessaloniki. Further information is available at https://www.aemth.gr/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
Τ. Μπεκιάρης, Ά. Στρούλια, Χ. Στεργίου, and Β. Μέλφος, “Λίθινα εργαλεία με κόψη από τη νεολιθική Μάκρη Έβρου: κατασκευαστικές ακολουθίες και χωρικά συμφραζόμενα”
Φ. Γεωργιάδης, “Νέες αρχαιολογικές έρευνες στο σπήλαιο Μαρώνειας, στο πλαίσιο της Προγραμματικής Σύμβασης του ΥΠ.ΠΟ. με την Περιφέρεια Ανατολικής Μακεδονίας και Θράκης και τον Δήμο Μαρώνειας-Σαπών για τη βιώσιμη αξιοποίηση του σπηλαίου”
Χ. Μιχελάκη, Χ. Κονταξή, Φ. Γεωργιάδης, Ι. Ευσταθίου, Α. Καζνέση, Σ. Κατσαρού, Π. Μπιλάλη, and Π. Δεϊλάκη, “‘Ιστορίες και μύθοι από τα βάθη της σπηλιάς’. Ένα εκπαιδευτικό ταξίδι στα αρχαιολογικά σπήλαια της Ελλάδας”
Ντ. Ούρεμ-Κώτσου, Α. Σαρρής, Ν. Παπαδόπουλος, Κ. Βουβαλίδης, Γ. Μανιάτης, Χ. Καραδήμα, Μ. Χρυσάφη, Δ. Μάτσας, Α. Μουσιώνη, Μ. Κουτσουμανής, Σ. Κώτσος, Δ. Σκουλαρίκη, Κ. Σγουρόπουλος, Γ. Πολυμέρης, Π. Χρυσαφάκογλου, Δ. Οικονόμου, Σ. Δοάνη, and Ι. Χρόνης, “Το ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα MapFarm. Χαρτογραφώντας τους πρώιμους γεωργούς στη Θράκη”
Ν.-Λ. Νικολαΐδη and Δ. Μαλαμίδου, “Οι πρώτες ενδείξεις για την ύπαρξη οικισμού της Νεότερης Νεολιθικής περιόδου στη Νιγρίτα Σερρών”
Κ. Παπαστάθης, Μ. Λαζοπούλου, Μ. Παρδάλης, and Κ. Ευκλείδου, “Η ολοκλήρωση της ανασκαφής στο νεκροταφείο του Αγίου Ιωάννη Σιθωνίας. Ταφικά μνημεία και ταφικές πρακτικές από την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Σιδήρου μέχρι τους κλασικούς χρόνους”
Α. Τουλουμτζίδου, “Ἕνα χωρίον ἐκτισμένον ἐπὶ ἀρχαίου νεκροταφείου εἰς τὰ πρόθυρα τῆς Θεσσαλονίκης. Προπολεμικές ανασκαφές και ευρήματα από τη Θέρμη Θεσσαλονίκης”
Ε. Μανακίδου, Δ. Τσιαφάκη, and Κ. Τσονάκα, “Καραμπουρνάκι 2023: θέματα προστασίας και ανάδειξης του αρχαίου οικισμού”
Σ. Χρονάκη, Y. Agafonova, Ζ. Αμοιρίδου, Σ. Βογιατζή, Α. Καραθάνου, Ά. Λύκα, Κ. Μαστορογιάννης, Γ. Παπαδιάς, Γ. Παρχαρίδου, Κ. Παυλόγλου, Ι. Νεστορίδης, Κ. Χονδρός, Σ. Ανδρέου, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Η πανεπιστημιακή ανασκαφή στην Τούμπα Θεσσαλονίκης, 2023”
Α. Χονδρογιάννη-Μετόκη, Β. Λαϊνά, and Φ. Ντοβόλης, “Αρχαιολογικές μαρτυρίες στο ορυχείο Μαυροπηγής με συνέπεια και συνέχεια: ο οικισμός της αρχαιότερης νεολιθικής στη θέση Ασπρότοπος και το νεκροταφείο στη θέση Λουλούδια”
Δ. Χονδρού, Σ. Δημάκη, and Μ. Γεωργιάδης, “Ένα εργαστήριο λίθινων τριπτών εργαλείων στη Δήμητρα Γρεβενών. Πρώτες παρατηρήσεις και ερωτήματα”
Λ. Γκέλου, Μ. Τσίγκα, and Α. Τουλιοπούλου, “‘Μια φορά και έναν καιρό…στο χωριό μου το Νεολιθικό - Μαθαίνοντας τον τόπο μου’: Εκπαιδευτικό Πρόγραμμα 2023”
Δ. Κλουκίνας, Τ. Γιαγκούλης, and Κ. Κωτσάκης, “Η συμβολή της μελέτης οικοδομικών πηλών ανωδομής στην αρχιτεκτονική αποκατάσταση των κτηρίων του νεολιθικού οικισμού Δισπηλιού Καστοριάς”
Ευ. Βούλγαρη, Μ. Σωφρονίδου, and Κ. Κωτσάκης, “Τετραποδικά αγγεία από το Δισπηλιό Καστοριάς”
Τ. Μπεκιάρης, Γ. Στρατούλη, Χ. Στεργίου, J. L. González, and Κ. Κωτσάκης, “Τεχνολογίες της λίμνης: η κατασκευή λίθινων εργαλείων με κόψη στο νεολιθικό Δισπηλιό Καστοριάς”

CAA2024

On 8-12 April 2024 the 51st Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods to Archaeology Conference (CAA2024): Across the Horizon will be held in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, New Zealand. Further information is available at https://2024.caaconference.org/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. Tour, “Utilising deep neural network models to aid in the decipherment of Linear A”

The Archaeology of Affluence

On 8–9 May 2024 an international conference entitled The Archaeology of Affluence: Comparative perspectives on surplus, wealth, and social organisation in pre-modern societies will be held in Bologna, Italy on. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
P. Halstead, “Surplus, scarcity and affluence: questions of definition, archaeological recognition and social change”
M. Cultraro, “Investigating models of affluent and fluent Bronze Age communities in Northern Aegean: Poliochni on Lemnos and the roots of proto-urban complexity”
S. Todaro, “Plain cups for central places? Meal distribution and the management of collective works in Crete at the end of the EBA: new perspectives from EM III Phaistos”
M. Perna, “On the footsteps of Enrica Fiandra. The cretulae: an elementary accounting system between the Aegean and Ancient Near East”
L. Girella, “Living with and without the kouloures: the meaning of a presence and absence in the Protopalatial and Neopalatial Crete”
B. Montecchi, “The management of affluence at Late Minoan IB Agia Triada”
M. E. Alberti, “Creating added value: the management of textile production in Minoan Crete (MM IB – LM IB)”
D. Puglisi, “The crocus gatherers of the Xestè 3 at Akrotiri: female initiations and management of affluence in Late Bronze Age I Aegean”
D. G. Aquini, “Silver and gold take turn. Investigating the dichotomy of affluence in Minoan jewellery”
E. Oddo, “Affluence inside and out: built environment and regional organization of Neopalatial Knossos”
S. Cesaratto, “The concept of surplus in contemporary economics and its application to the ancient civilizations”
A. M. A. Vergaki, “Social inequality in Late Bronze Age Crete: origins, evolution, and the role of the multitude”
L. Bombardieri and M. Amadio, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone’. Exploring the socio-economic settings of Middle Bronze Age Erimi at the dawn of urbanisation in Cyprus”
F. Porta, J. Driessen, and J. Bretschneider, “Unravelling Pyla-Kokkinokremos: exploring the socio-economic structures of a late Cypriot settlement”
A. Simandiraki-Grimshaw, “Corporeal ecosystems of affluence in Bronze Age (Minoan) Crete”
E. Borgna and A. Mercogliano, “Affluence, resources and social growth in a long-term rural community of eastern Achaea: The Trapeza of Aigion, from MBA to the final LBA”
F. Iacono and M. Cattani, “Affluent societies of the Bronze Age: uncoupling affluence and hierarchy in the Central Mediterranean 2000-1000 BC c.a.”

HYDOR

On 12-16 June 2024 the 20th International Aegean Conference: HYDOR. Water Resources and Management in the Aegean Bronze Age will be held in Amsterdam. Further information is available at https://hydorconference.com/. The preliminary program is:
T. F. Tartaron, “Water-Worlds of the Aegean Bronze Age: Toward a Comprehensive Perspective”
T. Carter, S. Crewson, K. Mallinson, D. Mihailović, V. Mastrogiannopoulou, D. Contreras, J. Holcomb, and D. Athanasoulis, “The Significance of Springs at Stelida, Naxos: From Neanderthal Camps to Later Bronze Age Ritual Landscape”
G. Albertazzi, “The culture / nature interplay contribution to the evolution of fresh-water management systems in Bronze Age Cyprus: a preliminary survey”
E. Alberti, M. Pomadère, and L. Lespez, “Malia and the water: sources, and uses of the salt and fresh water from the Protopalatial to the Neopalatial times”
J. P. Crielaard, L. Godefroy, and T. Sheik, “The importance of wetlands in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Aegean”
N. Cucuzza, “Haghia Triada and the water in Late Minoan IIIA-B”
M. Gkazis, “Waterscapes in Late Bronze Age western Greece”
K. Jazwa and K. van den Berg, “The Way of Water: The Influence of Water on ex novo Settlement Locations during the LBA Collapse”
S. Katsarou, “Water in caves: Aspects of social ecology in the Greek Neolithic and the Bronze Age”
M. Gkouma, P. Karkanas, T. Brogan, C. Sofianou, and Y. Papadatos, “Minoan occupation in wetland areas: results from the geoarchaeological study of Minoan habitation in the area of Ierapetra, East Crete”
N. Papadimitriou, “Rivers, floods and wetlands in prehistoric Attica”
D. Pullen, T. Tartaron, and R. K. Dunn, “Wringing Water Out of a Karstic Landscape: Fissures, Faults, and Terraces at Late Bronze Age Kalamianos”
S. Todaro, “Coastal Marshes and water Engineering Works in Crete at the Onset of the II Millennium BC: New Insights from Phaistos and Patrikies”
D. Mylona, “Fish and marine mollusks from freshwater and brackish aquatic habitats on Bronze Age Crete”
M. Boyd, M. Floquet, M. Gkouma, J. Wright, J. Herbst, T. Kinnaird, E. Margaritis, I. Moutafi, G. Gavalas, and C. Renfrew, “Water as a threat: terraces and water management in the Early Bronze Age Cyclades in the light of recent data from Keros”
N. B. Ayash, “The Role of the Waterscape in the location of Tholoi in the Central Messara”
G. Vavouranakis, “An elemental approach to water in Minoan”
S. Aulsbrook and D. Mason, “Need This, Don’t Need That: Aspects of Water Management at Mycenae”
I. Caloi, “The use of pedestalled basins in settlements and funerary contexts of Crete in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages”
M. Cultraro, “Investigating Urban Water Management in EBA Northern Aegean: a sustainable paradigm from Poliochni, Lemnos”
J. Driessen, “Water and Waste – The Role of Water in the Court-Centered Building at Sissi”
R. Koehl, A. Aston, J. Earle, S. Manolakakis, and M. D. Yilmaz, “Water Management in the Early Cycladic II and Late Cycladic IIIC Middle Developed Periods on the Koukounaries Hill, Paros, Greece”
M. Lane, “Antecedents to the drainage at Gla”
P. Militello, D. Puglisi, and A. Asouliman, “How much water does a Minoan site need? Water Management in the southern Mesara in the Palatial Period”
S. Perrakis, “The Transformation of a Waterscape: The case study of the Kato Zakros Valley”
Y. de Raaf, “Drains and drainage channels in Middle Helladic and early Mycenaean settlements”
K. Shelton, “Well, well, well (?) Water management and use at Petsas House, Mycenae”
D. Smith, “Hydor, hygiene and water management at Bronze Age Phylakopi, Melos”
J. Soles, C. Davaras, C. Sofianou, and G. Doudalis, “1000 Years of Water Management at Minoan Mochlos, ca. 3100-1430 BC”
P. Tomkins, “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Reassessing water management on the Kephala Hill at Knossos during the Bronze Age”
D. Fallu, S. Chryssoulaki, G. Tsartsidou, L. Vokotopoulos, S. Cucchiaro, E. Straffelini, A. Lang, C. Bahl, R. Scaife, and T. Brown, “Land and water management at Choiromandres, Zakros in the second millennium C.: A geoarchaeological study on climatic conditions, erosion, soils and cultivation”
A. Van de Moortel, “Water Management in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Coastal Community of Mitrou, Central Greece”
T. Palaima, “Cultural Attitudes towards Water and Its Importance in Mycenaean Palatial Culture”
M. Dabney, “Water in Mycenaean Mortuary Practices”
T. Kalantzopoulou, “Να ξεχαστεί σαν των βουνών το περσινό το χιόνι: A conceptual investigation of the Minoans’ relationship with snow”
P. Kousoulis and C. Papadaki, “Water as a medium and idiosyncratic expression of the Mediterranean magical koine”
L. Nixon, “Minoan Water Sanctuaries”
M. Yamasaki, “Underwater spaces between reality and…”
R. A. Smith, “Spouting Off: An Investigation of the Functionality of Pouring Spouts in Neopalatial and Pospalatial Gournia”
I. Nikolakoupoulou, K. Birtacha, G. Vougioukalakis, F. Georma, and I. Bitis, “Tsunamigenic deposits in LB I Akrotiri, Thera”
L. Vokotopoulos and C. Agouridis, “Ἱερὸν ὕδωρ: The use of water at the sacred caves of Adiavatos and its significance for the rites”
J. Wright, “Palaeoclimate and the Emergence of the Mycenaean Palace”
T. Cunningham, “Water management and agriculture in the Far East of Crete during the Bronze Age”
D. Intartaglia, “Water and agriculture in Bronze Age Crete”
L. Kvapil, “Eating from Field and Fen: Water in Food Production and Procurement in LBA Greece”
G. Price, “(Working) Isotopic Currents: Tracking transhumance practices in domesticated livestock at Bronze Age Mycenae”
J. S. Meier, “What’s the catch of the day? Seafood remains at Petsas House, Mycenae”
E. Borgna and S. Todaro, “Phaistos and the searching for landing places along the western Mesara coast: a diachronic perspective”
T. Brogan, C. Sofianou, V. Apostolakou, M. Eaby, and D. Mylona, “Maritime Coastscapes and Small Worlds in East Crete during the Middle and late Bronze Age”
S. Ferrence, C. Sofianou, P. Betancourt, A. Giumlia-Mair, K. Chalikias, M. Eaby, J. M. Kenoyer, and G. Ludvik, “Maritime Coastscapes and Big Worlds: Crete and the East in the Late Bronze Age”
G. Di Lorenzo, “Territory occupation and exchange ways with the central Mediterranean in the post-palatial era, through the waterscapes: some case studies from Western and N.- western Greece”
J. Shaw and J. Wright, “Evidence for seafaring at Kommos harbor: Ceramic, architectural, and other international interconnections”
T. Strasser, “Stone-Age Seafaring in the Aegean: An Ever-Changing Seascape”
S. Vitale and A. Queri, “Waters, Sea Routes, and Connectivity: Seafaring Technology and the Making of the Early Late Bronze Age Aegean”
A. Yasur-Landau, “The Anthropogenic Reef: Bronze Age Anchorages between the Aegean and the Levant”
M. Marthari, “New insights into boats, longboats, and society in the Cyclades in the period just before the appearance of the Aegean sailing boat in the light of new excavations at Chalandriani and Kastri, Syros”
F. Blakolmer, “Water and earth in Aegean iconography: The pictorial formulae of terrestrial rockwork and coralline forms … and some misconceptions by Aegean artists”
E. Drakaki, “A Historical and contextual approach of the ownership of hard- stone seals with motifs of waterbirds from the Late Bronze Age Greek Mainland”
E. Egan, “New Thoughts on the Knossos Argonaut Frieze”
K. P. Foster, “From Water Lilies to Flying Fish: Wondrous Waterscapes in Minoan and Cycladic Iconography”
M. Nikolaidou and N. Merousis, “Waterscapes and Aquatic Symbolism in the Funerary Iconography of Postpalatial Crete”
L. Phialon, V. Aravantinos, and E. Tsota, “A re-examination of water- related motifs from Tanagra: contribution to the study of Aegean Late Bronze Age funerary symbolism and beliefs”
V. Pliatsika, “The elusive waterscapes of Mycenaean pictorial pottery”
E. Shank, “Water in Miniature-Style Wall Paintings”
A. Philippa-Touchais and G. Touchais, “The waterscape in the Argolid and the first figurative motives in Middle to Late Bronze Age Transition Pottery”
A. Vlachopoulos, “‘Nilotic’ versus ‘aquatic’ in Aegean art”
J. Weingarten: Closing address

The February 2024 issue of Nestor (51.2) is available as a free download.

AEA 2024

On 15 March 2024 abstracts (300 words) are due for the 2024 Spring Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA 2024), to be held in Faro, Portugal on 3-5 May 2024. Further information and the form for submission are available at https://aea24faro.icarehb.com/abstract-submission/. The themes of the conference will be:
• Palaeolithic environments, subsistence, and diet
• Agricultural origins and the earliest villages
• Adaptations to coastal and wetland environments
• Environmental impact of sustained human settlements
• Human adaptations to extreme or arid environments
• Cross-disciplinary research in environmental archaeology

TAG-US 2024

On 22 March 2024 session and workshop proposals (200 words) are due for the 2024 meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG-US 2024), to be held in Santa Fe on 21-23 May 2024. On 22 April 2024 abstracts for papers (150 words) are due. Further information and the form for submission are available at https://tagsantafe.com/.

AIA 2025

On 25 March 2024 (8 April with a late fee) submissions for colloquia, joint AIA/SCS sessions, and open-session papers and posters needing an early decision to acquire a visa or obtain funding are due for the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA 2025), to be held in Philadelphia, PA from 2-5 January 2025. On 5 August 2024 (19 August with a late fee) submissions are due for workshops, open session papers and posters, and any provisionally accepted colloquia that are resubmitting. On 1 November 2024 applications are due for Lightning Round and Roundtable submissions. Submission forms and further information are available at https://www.archaeological.org/programs/professionals/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/.

Sphakia Survey Website

The new Sphakia Survey website is now available at https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/collections/The_Sphakia_Survey_Internet_Edition/6816405. It includes all the images that were on the old site, now at high resolution; the Sphakia Survey video in digital form; some explanatory text; and pdfs of most if not all of the articles that have been published to date.

ISA 2024

On 12 January 2024 abstracts are due for the 44th International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA 2024), to be held in Melbourne on 27-31 May 2024. Further information is available at https://arcas.org.au/isa2024.melbourne/. The sessions will be:

ASOR 2024

On 15 January 2024 proposals for new member-organized sessions and workshops (250 words) are due for the American Schools of Overseas Research Annual Meetings (ASOR 2024), to be held in Boston and hybrid format on 20-23 November 2024. The call for papers will be open 15 February – 15 March 2024. Further information is available at https://www.asor.org/am/.

SOMA 2024

On 22 January 2024 abstracts (1500-2500 characters with spaces) are due for the 25th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA 2024), to be held in Zadar, Croatia on 25-27 April 2024. Topics will include seafaring and navigation; ports and harbours; maritime cultural landscapes; material culture; research methods and tools, particularly those attempting to reconstruct the ancient trade in the Mediterranean and its maritime connectivity with the contributions of underwater or land archaeology; new ideas for the conservation and interpretation of cultural heritage; and related topics such as art history, numismatics, epigraphy as well as other topics that connected the Mediterranean world through the history. Further information is available at https://www.icua.hr/najava/call-for-applications-soma-2024-xxv-symposium-on-mediterranean-archaeology/15.

The Archaeology of Affluence

On 31 January 2024 abstracts (250 words) are due for an international conference entitled The Archaeology of Affluence: Comparative perspectives on surplus, wealth, and social organisation in pre-modern societies, to be held in Bologna, Italy on 8–9 May 2024. Abstracts should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Presenters are invited to offer their papers for publication in a peer reviewed proceeding of the workshop to be edited by the conference organizers, Santo Privitera, Francesco Iacono, and Palmiro Notizia. Suggested topics may include:
• The roots of affluence:
o Was it farming?
o Was surplus available to communities with little arable land or placed next to the coasts and/or wetlands?
o Was animal husbandry the key variable?
o What strategies were groups of herders and farmers employing to overcome the dearth of resources and, in turn, create affluence?
• The relationship between individual and community affluence:
o How even was affluence distributed among populations?
o Was this connected to an unbalance in social arrangements?
o How is this unbalance (or lack thereof) translated in the archaeological record of the world of the living or the dead?
o How was affluence made evident and communicated (e.g. by laying out monumental buildings and spaces, enlarging private dwellings, or furbishing tombs?)
• The management of affluence:
o Was affluence a multiplier of social complexity?
o How were groups managing affluence? Through feasting practices and/or the destruction of wealth?
o How far-reaching was the use of administrative tools aimed at bookkeeping (sacrificial or archival economies)?
o In a wider perspective, what was the role played by the accumulation and storage of staples, on the one hand, and the production of high-status and precious artefacts, on the other?
• The relationship between affluence and technology:
o What were the means through which affluence was achieved and regenerated over time? (e.g., exploiting wetlands, farming practices, animal husbandry, metal mining, staple storage, special textile techniques, trade relationships)
o What are its traces in the archaeological record (e.g., architectural monumentality, dining sets in precious metals, clay skeuomorphs, iconography)?

ATINER 2024

On 13 February 2024 abstracts (500 words) are due for the 22nd Annual International Conference on History and Archaeology: From Ancient to Modern (ATINER 2024), to be held by the History Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research on 3-6 June 2024 in Athens. Further information is available at https://www.atiner.gr/history.

ICAS-EMME 4

On 31 March 2024 abstracts (200-300 words) are due for the 4th International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (ICAS-EMME 4), to be held at the Cyprus Institute, in Nicosia, Cyprus on 15-18 May 2024. Further information is available at https://icasemme.cyi.ac.cy/.