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March 2024 issue available
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- 04 March 2024
The March 2024 issue of Nestor (51.3) is available as a free download.
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Grants and Fellowships
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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.
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Calls for Papers
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Religious Networks in Antiquity
On 24 March 2024 abstracts (300-400 words) are due for a conference entitled The Connected Past: Religious Networks in Antiquity, to be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada on 4-6 October 2024, preceded by an optional network science workshop on 2-3 October 2024. Further information is available at https://connectedpast.net/. Possible themes include:
• Modeling religious diffusions
• Networks and religious identities
• Networks and collective memory
• Networking myth
• Religion, networks, and social complexity
• Networks and materiality
• Communities of (religious) practice
• Knowledge networks and religious practice
• Networks, rituals, and power
• Network science techniques and humanities pedagogyWriting as Visual Experience
On 31 March 2024 abstracts (250 words) are due for a conference entitled Writing as Visual Experience, to be held at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, on 20-22 September 2024. Further information is available at https://viewsproject.wordpress.com/conferences/.
Bronzes in Context
On 31 March 2024 abstracts are due for the 22nd International Congress on Ancient Bronzes: Bronzes in Context, to be held in Athens on 14-18 October 2024. Further information is available at https://www.efa.gr/call-for-papers-22nd-international-congress-on-ancient-bronzes/?lang=en.
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Future Lectures and Conferences
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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”
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Australasian Society for Classical Studies
On 12-15 February 2024 the 45th Annual Meeting of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies was held in Melbourne. Further information is available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/16vMw4OECsNJJHPlaIA3FJc6kLCs0552y/edit?pli=1. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
V. Kerr-Harris, “‘Locs’ Can be Deceiving: Hair, Revisionism, and the (Mis)Appropriation of Aegean Art”
C. Tully, “Fat Black Athena: fear and loathing at the crossroads of female corporeality”Το Έργον ‘23
On 24 February 2024 a workshop entitled Το Έργον ‘23: Ετήσια Ημερίδα για το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου το 2023 was held in hybrid format by the Archaeological Research Unit at the University of Cyprus. Further information is available at https://www.aegeussociety.org/events/28745-2/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
Κ. Κοπανιάς and Μ. Ιακώβου, “Παλαίπαφος-Μαρτσέλλο 2021-2023: νέα δεδομένα για το αστικό τοπίο της Αρχαίας Πάφου στην Ύστερη Εποχή του Χαλκού”
Α. Σαρρής, “Ερευνητικές δραστηριότητες του Εργαστηρίου Digital Humanities GeoInformatics 2023”
Ο. Κουκά, “Έρευνες πεδίου στο Ανατολικό Αιγαίο κατά το 2023”
Γ. Παπασάββας, “Η διπλή ζωή του Θεού του Ταλάντου”
Ά. Γεωργίου, “Επισκόπηση των ερευνητικών και άλλων δραστηριοτήτων του ComPAS (ERC Starting Grants) για το 2023”
C. Cateloy, “Tracing the exchange networks in the eastern Mediterranean during the 2nd millennium BCE: new insights from the ComPAS project”
C. Donnelly, “Σημεία γραφής αριθμών και μέτρων και η χρήση τους στα εμπορικά δίκτυα της Ανατολικής Μεσογείου της 2ης χιλιετίας π.Χ.”
‘Α. Γεωργιάδου, “Μελετώντας τα δίκτυα επαφών της Κύπρου με τη Συροπαλαιστίνη στην Πρώιμη Εποχή του Σιδήρου (11ος -8ος αι. π.Χ.): η περίπτωση του Κιτίου”
Α. Χαραλάμπους, J. Webb, Β. Κασσιανίδου, and Γ. Παπασάββας, “Ολοκλήρωση και αποτελέσματα του ερευνητικού προγράμματος ‘North Coast Metals’”
D. Ioannides, A. Charalambous, S. Hadjipanteli, F. Chelazzi, and V. Kassianidou, “Shedding light on copper production in the 1st Millennium BC: the Mines of Asgata-Kalavasos”
V. Klinkenberg, “Burnt buildings at Chalcolithic Palloures”
Μ. Πολυδώρου, “Μεταβολές της θαλάσσιας στάθμης κατά τα τελευταία 5000 έτη, όπως προσδιορίζονται απο την ανάλυση Ακτολίθων”
Ά. Δημητρίου, “Πρόγραμμα SHARE: στα χνάρια της αρχαιολογίας των ναυαγίων στην Ανατολική Μεσόγειο”
M. Secci, I. Katsouri, and S. Demesticha, “MARE CYPRIUM: Multimedia Applications for Cypriot Maritime Cultural Heritage” -
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Announcement
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INSTAP Academic Press
Susan C. Ferrence, Director of Publications of INSTAP Academic Press, sends the following announcement:
INSTAP Academic Press and ISD are pleased to announce that the latest editions of the Prehistory Monographs series have arrived.
These new volumes contain valuable insights from surveys and excavations conducted on the Minoan sites of Crete, exploring the intricate connection between society and its surroundings. They delve into the fascinating field of Minoan metallurgy, analyze intriguing burial customs, and offer detailed examinations of cremation practice and bone analysis.
Additionally, we'd like to draw your attention to a special offer valid for a limited time as part of the AIA book exhibit at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America that was held earlier in January in Chicago. For the next two months, the complete INSTAP backlist is available at significantly reduced prices with certain titles discounted by up to 50%--an excellent opportunity for you to expand your collection!
Latest volumes: tinyurl.com/INSTAPNew2023
Backlist Flyer: tinyurl.com/INSTAPbacklist
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Calls for Papers
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- 01 February 2024
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 archaeologyTAG-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/.
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Future Lectures and Conferences
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Archaeological Research Unit Public Lectures, Spring 2024
The schedule of lectures at the Archaeological Research Unit at the University of Cyprus has been announced for spring 2024. All lectures will be held at 7:30 PM (EET) virtually via ZOOM, with some in hybrid form (via ZOOM and at the ARU Lecture Room). Prior registration is required Further information and links to register are available at https://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2024/01/ARU_Lectures_S.S._2024.pdf.
5 February 2024: Σ. Χρυσουλάκη, “Ο χαρακτήρας και η δομή μιας ουτοπικής πολιτείας”
12 February 2024: Ε. Σιουμπάρα, “Κλασικά αναθηματικά μνημεία προς επανάχρηση στην Ακρόπολη: Νέες έρευνες”
19 February 2024 (hybrid): Y. Papadatos and T. Kalantzopoulou, “The mountains of Crete in the Bronze Age: Current archaeological approaches”
24 February 2024 (hybrid): Workshop by the EMA academic staff and researchers: “‘Το Έργον '23’ Ετήσια Ημερίδα για το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου το 2023”
26 February 2024 (hybrid): E. Walter-Karydi, “Lapide pingere: On the materiality of late Classical and Hellenistic mosaics”
4 March 2024 (hybrid): H. Shochat, “A new look on Late Bronze and Iron Ages ivory exchange: The case of the southern Levant”
11 March 2024 (hybrid): Σ. Χρυσουλάκη, “Ο χαρακτήρας και η δομή μιας ουτοπικής πολιτείας”
14-15 March 2024 (hybrid): Workshop organized by C. M. Donnelly and A. Georgiou, “Marks, Marketing and Markets: Investigating the intersection of marking practices and commercial strategies in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age eastern Mediterranean”
8 April 2024: A. U. Kordas, M. Rekowska, S. Popławski, and A. Brzozowska-Jawornicka, “A new Greco-Roman temple in Cyprus? A set of decorated stone details from the Latsithkia site: Reconstruction potential and research prospects”
15 April 2024 (hybrid): T. Hodos, “Eggstraordinary objects: Ostrich eggs as luxury items in the ancient Mediterranean”
20 April 2024 (hybrid): Workshop, “A unique monument at the crossroads of political transformation: Investigation and documentation of the Palaepaphos-Laona tumulus”
22 April 2024 (hybrid): Γ. Στρατούλη, “Ευρωπαίων η πόλις: Μια αναδυόμενη πόλη της Βοττιαίας”INSTAP SCEC Lectures, Spring 2024
The schedule of online lectures at the Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete (INSTAP SCEC) has been announced for spring 2024. Lectures are held at 12:00 pm Eastern Time/7 pm in Greece. Registration for the lectures is necessary beforehand.
28 February 2024: S. Vitale, “Ahhiyawa and Mycenaean Greece. A View from the Southeast Aegean-Southwest Coastal Anatolian Region”
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkdOGhqDkiGdakw2pQzx5LNMp9ANBI_ZQH#/registration
6 March 2024: D. Nakassis, "Towards a post-cultural archaeology of Late Bronze Age Greece"
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rfuCtqz8vHtxDNvJRpehFqcNTc2AE5tFz#/registration
24 April 2024: C. Henkel, "Beyond Food: An Archaeobotanical Investigation into the Role of Plants within the Ritual Landscape of Bronze Age Crete"
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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.
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The January 2024 issue of Nestor (51.1) is available as a free download.
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Calls for Papers
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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/.
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Future Lectures and Conferences
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ATLAS
The program of ATLAS—Archaeological Topographies: Current Trends in Landscape Archaeology and Spatial Analysis has been announced for 2024. All lectures begin at 19:00 EEST in Athens. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/DipylonAthens/. Lectures of interest to Nestor readers will include:
5 February 2024: C. Nuttall, “Problematising coastal landscapes. Spatial markers of coastscape engagement and the application of GIS-based methods in Aegean Prehistory”
4 March 2024: A. Leontaritis, “Mapping formerly glaciated environments: landscape evolution under millennial-scale climate variability”
2 December 2024: A. Brysbaert, “Studying the dynamics of the LBA Mycenaean taskscape in the Argolid through labour cost research and digital technologies”
16 December 2024: F. Gaignerot-Driessen and S. Sorin, “Sacred landscape archaeology: micro-mapping a votive deposit at Anavlochos, Crete”BANEA 2024
On 3-5 January 2024 the 2024 Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA 2024). Archaeological and heritage practice in Southwest Asia: towards equitable futures will be held at the University of Glasgow. Further information is available at https://www.banea.org/banea24. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
D. Papageorgiou, “Reconstructing food preparation practices in Northern Levant and Cilicia during the LBA-EIA transition”
A. Ladas and D. Papageorgiou, “A landscape aspect of human interaction: the role of coastal sanctuaries in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean during the LBA” -
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The December 2023 issue of Nestor (50.12) is available as a free download.
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Grants and Fellowships
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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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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 collaboration10th 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 historicity2nd 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 goalsPEBA 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
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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” -
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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’ -
November 2023 issue available
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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
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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
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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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Grants
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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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Calls for Papers
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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 cynégétiqueTAG 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
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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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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” -
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Calls for Papers
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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 archaeologyBANEA 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 AsiaLAC 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
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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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- 31 July 2023
The August 2023 summer communications from Nestor (50.8) are available as a free download.