Nestor  

Editor: Carol R. Hershenson | Web Developer: John Wallrodt
Nestor is an international bibliography of Aegean studies, Homeric society, Indo-European linguistics, and related fields. It is published monthly from September to May (each volume covers one calendar year) by the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati. It is currently edited by Carol R. Hershenson.
 
The primary geographic nexus of Nestor is the Aegean, including all of Greece, Albania, and Cyprus, the southern area of Bulgaria, and the western and southern areas of Turkey. Nestor includes publications concerning the central and western Mediterranean, southeastern Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, western Asia, and other regions of archaeological research, if the specific bibliographic items contain Aegean artifacts, imitations, or influences, or make reference to Aegean comparanda.
 
 

News

  • March 2023 issue available

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    28 February 2023

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

  • Announcement

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    28 February 2023

    A New Home for the Archives of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory


    The Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Archives of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP). Founded by Thomas G. Palaima in 1986, the PASP Archives contain the original papers and collections of the scholars who contributed to the decipherment of Linear B: Alice E. Kober, Michael G. F. Ventris, and Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.; many of these papers are accessible online. In addition, PASP houses an extensive collection of 1:1 scale photographs of inscriptions, particularly those of the Linear A and the Linear B systems, as well as thousands of rare offprints on scripts-based subjects.
    The PASP collections, both physical and digital, will be formally transferred to UC Classics in the summer of 2024. During this transition phase from late spring through early fall of that year, every effort will be made to fulfill requests for information, but significant delays will occur. We expect to open access to the physical holdings by late fall of 2024, with access to the digital holdings soon afterwards.
    More information about UC Classics may be found at https://classics.uc.edu/, with information about the Archives and Special Collections of the Department of Classics at UC at https://classics.uc.edu/departments/classics/archives. More information about PASP may be found at https://sites.utexas.edu/scripts/.

  • Grants and Fellowships

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    28 February 2023

    Goneos Award

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

  • Museum Announcements and Special Exhibitions

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    28 February 2023

    The Many Lives of a Snake Goddess

    On 3 March 2023 an event entitled The Many Lives of a Snake Goddess will be held in the Freud Museum, London, in conjunction with the temporary exhibit “Freud’s Antiquity: Object, Idea, Desire” (25 February – 16 July 2023). The event will include a lecture on the Knossian snake goddesses by N. Momigliano a reading of poems about them by R. Padel, and a roundtable discussion by N. Momigliano, R. Padel, E. Adams, C. Morris, and A. Shapland. Further information is available at https://www.freud.org.uk/event/lives-of-a-snake-goddess/.

  • Call for Papers

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    28 February 2023

    AIA 2024

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

  • Future Lectures and Conferences

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    28 February 2023

    Unsung Pioneer Women in the Archaeology of Greece

    On 8 March 2023 a workshop entitled Unsung Pioneer Women in the Archaeology of Greece will be hosted by the École française d’Athènes. Further information is available at https://www.efa.gr/fr/manifestations-scientifiques/appels-a-communication/2275-appel-a-communication-colloque-unsung-pioneer-women-in-the-archaeology-of-greece. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    D. Douskos, “The problem of elusive figures: Louise Burnouf and contributions to archaeology”
    J. Banks, “Alice Leslie Walker Kosmopoulos: A pioneer against all odds”
    N. Vogeikoff-Brogan and L. Costaki, “Hazel D. Hansen: A forgotten American prehistorian”
    S. Déderix, “Marthe Oulié and the 1923-1925 Excavations of the École française d’Athènes at Malia”
    S. Todaro, “Working behind scenes. Luisa Banti and Italian research in Crete between 1930 and 1940: The archaeologist you don’t expect”
    M. Cultraro, “A look at Aegean prehistory from Italy: Pia Laviosa Zambotti, a pioneer woman in exploring networks in Mediterranean archaeology”
    E. Foley, “Vronwy Hankey in and beyond Greece”
    A. Ulanowska and K. Lewartowski, “The first post-World War II generation of female archaeologists at the University of Warsaw: Ludwika Press and the gendered and non-gendered challenges to becoming an Aegeanist within the confines of Marxist ideology and the Iron Curtain”
    M. Nikolaidou and D. Kokkinidou, “Angeliki Pilali-Papasteriou (1945-2007): A pioneer prehistorian at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki”
    D. Kokkinidou and M. Nikolaidou, “From the museum to the trench and beyond: Greek women in archaeology since the 1950s”

     

    ΑΕΜΘ 2023

    On 9-10 March 2023 the 35th meeting on Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και τη Θράκη (ΑΕΜΘ 2023). will be held in Thessaloniki. Further information is available at https://www.aemth.gr/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    P. Darcque, Χ. Κουκούλη-Χρυσανθάκη, Δ. Μαλαμίδου, and Ζ. Τσιρτσώνη, “Ανασκαφή στον προϊστορικό οικισμό Φιλίππων – Ντικιλί Τας 2022”
    Ο. Πάλλη, Ρ. Βεροπουλίδου, Ι. Ναζλής, Γ. Κουρτέση-Φιλιππάκη, Κ. Κωτσάκης, Σ. Ανδρέου, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Εργαστηριακές δραστηριότητες στο κτήριο Μ στην Τούμπα Θεσσαλονίκης”
    N. Zorzin, Δ. Μαλαμίδου, J. Taylor, and Ι. Σουκάντος, “Συστηματική αρχαιολογική έρευνα στον νεολιθικό οικισμό Τούμπας Σερρών 2021-2022”
    Δ. Καδή, Α. Σαμούρης, Σ. Χρονάκη, Σ. Ανδρέου, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Η πανεπιστημιακή ανασκαφή στην κορυφή της Τούμπας Θεσσαλονίκης”
    Χ. Ζιώτα, “Νεότερα δεδομένα για το προϊστορικό νεκροταφείο της Αχλάδας Φλώρινας”
    Γ. Μάνος, “Φευγαλέες ενδείξεις παλαιολιθικής παρουσίας στην Καστοριά”
    Κ. Κωτσάκης, “Δισπηλιό και πρόγραμμα EXPLO: οι ξύλινοι πάσσαλοι αποκαλύπτουν την ιστορία του νεολιθικού οικισμού”

     

    CAA2023

    On 3-6 April 2023 the 50-year anniversary edition of the annual conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA2023): 50 Years of Synergy will be held in Amsterdam. Further information is available at https://2023.caaconference.org/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    R. Rivers, H. C. W. Price, P. Gheorghiade, V. Vasiliauskaite, A. Diachenko, T. Evans, and F. Rossi, “Minoan Assemblage Distributions and Machine Learning”
    P. Cuthbertson, P. Tsakanikou, S. Kübler, and N. Galanidou, “Landscape Heterogeneity at the Acheulean Site of Rodafnidia (Lesbos, NE Aegean): Connecting sites and continental models through intermediary scales”
    E. Mavros, “Gaming as a Guide to the Past Environments: A Gentle Assistance to Landscape Archaeology in Palaepaphos, Cyprus”
    K. A. Crawford, G. Artopoulos, and I. Romanowska, “Does economic exchange drive settlement persistence patterns? Simulating patterns between Cyprus and the Levant during the Late Bronze Age”
    P. Gheorghiade, H. C. W. Price, and R. Rivers, “Travelling the wine dark sea – Networks of mobility in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean”
    A.-M. Xenaki, “Point Process Modelling of human-landscape relations in Eastern Crete”
    P. Kyriakidis and E. Gravanis, “A Framework for Modeling/Simulating Controls, Patterns and Consequences of Maritime Human Mobility Potential in Early Prehistory”

  • Past Lectures and Conferences

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    28 February 2023

    Social Groups and Production in Mycenaean Economies

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

  • February 2023 issue available

    Information
    31 January 2023

    The February 2023 issue of Nestor (50.2) is available as a free download.

  • Calls for Papers

    Information
    31 January 2023

    3rd Radiocarbon and Diet Conference

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

  • Future Lectures and Conferences

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    31 January 2023

    Harbours, maritime networks, and infrastructures

    A Classical Archaeology Seminar has been announced entitled Harbours, maritime networks, and infrastructures in ancient Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period, to be held on Mondays at 5 pm at the Ioannou Centre, Oxford and accessible online (https://zoom.us/u/aelYxMUuQ1; Meeting ID: 958 9922 7597 Passcode: 306649). Further information is available at https://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/files/classicalarchseminarsht23pdf. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    16 January 2023: L. Hulin, “A meeting of requirements: a mariner view of ports and trade in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean”
    23 January 2023: S. Sherratt, “Pottery as tracers of maritime networks”
    30 January 2023: S. Fournier, “The ancient harbour of Kition-Bamboula, Cyprus”
    13 February 2023: D. Greger, “Euboean Trade in the Bigger Picture: Early Iron Age Pottery Exchange through Network Analysis”
    27 February 2023: C. Sofianou and T. Brogan, “Maritime CoastScapes and Small Worlds in East Crete from the Middle Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period”

     

    ASCS44

    On 31 January - 3 February 2023 the 44th Conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS44) will be held at the in Christchurch, New Zealand. Further information is available at https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/events/active/uc-events/the-44th-conference-of-the-australasian-society-for-classical-studies.html. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    V. Kerr-Harris, “Dread-Nots: Hairstyle, Revisionism, and (Mis)Appropriation in Aegean Art”

     

    SOMA 2023

    On 2-4 February 2023 the 24th annual Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA 2023): Ideas that travelled by the sea will be held in Udine, Italy. Further information is available at http://genama.info/soma/2023/Registration.html?fbclid=IwAR0UMR-GiTCXZD0xiO-UzDZja2ywT7CMdUYF8wuh_eQgRa276Eumzn6s7LM. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    M. Girtzi, N. Papadopoulou, and A. Bountidou, “‘The ‘Time-traveller’ visits Minoan Crete’: an innovative museological project”

     

    The Golden Bough at 100

    On 10-12 February 2023 a conference entitled Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough: The Golden Bough at 100 will be held via Zoom, hosted by the University of Melbourne, Australia. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/JamesGFrazer/. Abstracts should be sent to goldenboughconference@gmail.com. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    C. Morris, “Rejecting the embrace of the Goddess? Minoan archaeology and the divine feminine”
    B. Jones, “The Girl on the Mycenean Ivory Triad: Her Garment, Hairstyle and Identity”
    L. Mazow, “Narrative Myth in Bronze-Age Aegean Wall Paintings and the Function of the Rooms They Decorate”
    C. Eller, “How the Minoans Became Matriarchal”
    S. O’Brien, “Guess Who’s Back? Graeber and Wengrow’s Resurrection of Matristic Minoans in ‘The Dawn of Everything’”
    L. Tittl, “Frazer’s Minoan Religion, by way of Mary Renault”

     

    MAARC 2023

    On 13-15 February 2023 the third annual meeting of the Mediterranean Archaeology Australasian Research Community (MAARC 2023) will be hosted online by the University of Sydney. Further information is available at https://mediterraneanarcha.wixsite.com/maarc/annual-meeting. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    L. Pisanu, “Mors tua vita mea. Perspective on the Late Bronze Age from the Sardinian shores”
    M. Bowers, “Continuity and Change in the Aftermath of the LBA Collapse through the Aegean Textile Culture”
    S. Lupak, “Did Everything Change in the Mediterranean Collapse? Signs of Religious Continuity from the Bronze Age through the Early Iron Age”
    R. Merrillees, “Ethel Hunter and Kouklia: A Forgotten Episode of Australian Archaeological Activity in Cyprus”
    L. Hitchcock, A. Maeir, and L. Pisanu, “Roll up for the Mystery Tour: Islands of the Transition and their Contribution to ‘Western’ Civilization”
    E. H. Cline, “Resilience, Transformation, and Catastrophe: Looking at the Aftermath of the LBA Collapse through the Lens of the Adaptive Cycle, Resilience Theory, and Extreme Events”
    V. Kerr-Harris, “A Dark Embrace: Darkness, Ritual Space, and the Senses”
    Z. Tarhan, “Near Eastern Motifs on Cretan Metalwork: New Observations”
    J. Webb, “Identifying violence within a Middle Bronze Age community in Cyprus”
    J. K. Papadopoulos, “The Ancient Methone Archaeological Project”
    E. Tour, “‘Pots don’t breed’: An exploration of the applications of phylogenetics in archaeology, and the debate around its suitability”
    B. Casa, V. Vassallo, R. Orabi, S. Hermon, and P. M. Fischer, “Hand-held tools for rapid, detailed 3D documentation of archaeological sites and public outreach: A case study from Late Bronze Age Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus”
    L. Tapinos, “Minoan Frescoes and Heterotopia: Creating Ritual Spaces and Visual Language at Mari, Alalakh, Tel Kabri”

  • Past Lectures and Conferences

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    31 January 2023

    Borders in first millennium BC Crete

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

     

    2nd MAGG

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

  • Electronic News and Notices

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    31 January 2023

    Aegeus digitized publications

    Aegeus – Society for Aegean Prehistory has presented 200 digitized publications on Greek prehistoric archaeology, published between 1847 and 1955 at https://www.aegeussociety.org/en/psifiopoiiseis/?fbclid=IwAR3BywmT6cCYRLYOcHRMec6KHMacL8GXV55llVbzB1VaqEiMwrNN279yLSM. They include writings by founding archaeologists including Heinrich Schliemann, Arthur Evans, Alan Wace, and Carl Blegen, with particular attention to publications of Greek archaeologists, such as Christos Tsountas, Panagiotis Stamatakis, Joseph Hatzidakis, Stephanos Xanthoudidis, Antonios Keramopoullos, Nikolaos Kyparissis, and Spiridon Marinatos, and with an aim of digitizing unknown and hard to find publications.

     

    Honoring Yves Duhoux

    On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, 34 personal tributes to the enduring positive effects of Yves Duhoux’s scholarship and generous devotion of time to essential editions and collections of state-of-the-arts guides and reports that benefit novice and veteran students were gathered by Thomas Palaima, Anna Panayotou-Triantaphyllopulou, and Carlos Varias García on a page titled Honoring Yves Duhoux: A Tribute. du-o-u-ka-te do-ro di-do-si mu-ke-no-ro-ko, which is available at https://sites.utexas.edu/scripts/2022/12/16/honoring-yves-duhoux-a-tribute/.

  • January 2023 issue available

    Information
    30 December 2022

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

  • Museum Announcements and Special Exhibitions

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    30 December 2022

    Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality at the Ashmolean

    From 10 February – 30 July 2023 the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford will have a special exhibition entitled Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality. Many of the excavation plans, artworks and records from the Sir Arthur Evans archive at the Ashmolean will be on display alongside objects from the site. Further information is available at https://www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/labyrinth-knossos-myth-reality.

  • Calls for Papers

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    30 December 2022

    ASOR 2023

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

     

    State of the Field 2023

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

     

    Unsung Pioneer Women

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

     

    Abundance and Scarcity

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

     

    ICAZ 2023

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

  • Future Lectures and Conferences

    Information
    30 December 2022

    New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium

    The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium has announced their schedule of lectures for spring 2023. All lectures will take place on Zoom and begin at 12 pm EST. Further information is available at https://nyabac.tumblr.com/.
    Monday, 13 February 2023: E. Egan, “Death and the Pylos Megaron”
    Tuesday, 28 March 2023: N. Abell, “An Exploration of Mechanisms of Interaction and Exchange in the MBA–LBA Cyclades”

     

    AIA & SCS 2023

    On 5-8 January 2023 the Annual Joint Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and Society for Classical Studies (AIA & SCS 2023) will be held in New Orleans, LA. Further information is available at http://www.archaeological.org and https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/detailed-preliminary-program-sessions-2023. Based on the preliminary program, papers, posters, and workshops of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    J. M. Engstrom, “Carl Blegen and Homeric Troy: An Archival History of the Origins and Objectives of the University of Cincinnati Troy Expedition”
    M. J. Daniels, K. Archibald, and L. Hickox, “The Nude Female in Eastern and Central Crete, 900-600 BCE: Between Foreign Imports and Local Landscapes”
    F. Georma, I. Nikolakopoulou, and I. Bitis, “Building Beta at Akrotiri, Thera. New Excavation Data and 3D Architectural rReconstruction”
    A. Koh, C. Floyd, T. Luke, J. Fu, and I. Liritzis, “The Southern Phokis Regional Project: Results of the 2022 field season at Desfina-Kastrouli and Its Environs”
    J. S. Soles, C. Davaras, C. Sophianou, and G. Doudalis, “The 2021-2022 Greek-American Excavations at Mochlos, Crete”
    Z. Tankosic, F. Mavridis, P. Zafeiriadis, A. Psoma, D. Nenova, and H. Öztürk, “Gourimadi Archaeological Project: The Summary of the First Five Years of Fieldwork”
    C. Knappett, A. Shapland, C. Sofianou, and T. Theodoulou, “Coastal Excavations at the Bronze Age Town of Palaikastro, East Crete”
    E. Oddo, J. Day, and C. Trainor, “KLASP 2022: Preliminary Results from the Knossos Legacy and Sustainable Archaeology Project”
    R. A. K. Smith, “The Late Minoan I to Late Minoan III Transition: A Ceramic Perspective from Gournia”
    C. J. Sturge, “Plain Tableware as an indicator of Mainland Influence at Final Palatial Knossos”
    G. Doudalis, “Living on the Edge? Exploring Cultural Boundaries in the Mirabello Area from MM IB to MM IIIB (ca. 1900-1600 B.C.E.)”
    D. Nadal Koussiounelos, “The Formation and Contacts of Laconian Sanctuaries during the LBA and EIA Periods”
    T. Carter, S. Crewson, M. Georgakopoulou, K. Hall, C. Murphy, and D. Athanasoulis, “The Production and Use of Minoan Anthropomorphic Bronze Votives: Insights from the Peak Sanctuary at Stelida, Naxos”
    K. E. Stiles and C. S. Jazwa, “A Chronology of Mobility and Interment at the Late Bronze Age Site of Golemi Agios Georgios, Greece”
    D. Easton, J. Stora, and B. Weninger, “New Radiocarbon Dates Confirm a Gap in Blegen’s Early Bronze Age Sequence at Troy”
    M. G. Hyytiainen-Jacobson, “So, What? Contextualizing Dental Anomalies at Aidonia”
    L. Kaiser, “Stirring the Cooking Pot: An Anthropological Interpretation of Cooking Technology at Early Bronze Age Mochlos”
    Y. Kourayos, “Despotiko Excavation and Restoration Project: Twenty-Five Years in the Making”
    A. Alexandridou, “Life on the Islet of Despotiko in the Early Iron Age: Moving away from the Sacred-Profane Polarity”
    P. Johnson, “Dissolution or Collapse? The Early Iron Age in the Western Borderlands of the Hittite Empire”
    R. Phillips, “Affective Gold: Exploring Materiality in Early Mycenaean Burials”
    V. Tsikritea, “Shaping Offerings: Technology and Craft of Early Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Sanctuary on Mt. Juktas, Crete”
    S. C. Murray, M. McHugh, M. Clinton, R. Stephan, G. Erny, J. Frankl, M. Godsey, E. Chreiazomenou, B. Lis, P. Sapirstein, and C. Pratt, “The Bays of East Attica Regional Survey: Results of the 2022 Season”
    A. R. Knodell, D. Athanasoulis, J. F. Cherry, M. Giannakopoulou, E. Levine, D. Nenova, H. Öztürk, and Ž. Tankosić, “The Small Cycladic Islands Project 2022: An Archaeological Survey of Polyaigos and the Uninhabited Islets near Milos and Kimolos”
    A. Dakouri-Hild, E. Andrikou, S. Davis, A. Agapiou, P. Bes, X. Charalambidou, M. Chidiroglou, T. Kinnaird, S. McGary, W. Rourk, K. Sarri, and A. Yangaki, “The Kotroni Archaeological Survey Project (KASP) at Ancient Afidna in Northern Attica: Results of the Second and Third Seasons (2021, 2022)”
    A. Kotsonas, “Lyktos Archeological Project (Crete): First Results on the Archaeology of the Early Iron Age to Classical Periods”
    M. J. Haagsma, S. Karapanou, G. Toufexis, M. Aiken, G. Canlas, C. M. Chykerda, E. Middleton, A. Wiznura, and A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, “The Central Achaia Phthiotis Survey (CAPS), results of the 2020-2022 seasons”
    D. Scahill, “The Aigeira Archaeological Project: Preliminary Results on the Architectural Landscape at Aigeira in the Northern Peloponnese”
    S. German and A. Simandiraki-Grimshaw (organizers); B. Burke, S. Lupack, J. McEnroe, J. E. Morrison, C. Murphy, and S. M. Valamoti-Kapetanaki (panelists): Outside the Network: Non-Elites and ‘Other’ in the Aegean Bronze Age (workshop)
    S. C. Murray, M. McHugh, M. Clinton, R. Stephan, G. Erny, J. Frankl, M. Godsey, E. Chreiazomenou, B. Lis, P. Sapirstein, and C. Pratt, “The Bays of East Attica Regional Survey: Results of the 2022 Season”
    S. L. Hilker, “Localized Habitation Mobility in Mycenaean Greece”
    J. R. Baxley Craig, “A Preliminary Spatial and Contextual Analysis of Ground Stone Tools from House A at Ayia Irini, Kea”
    M. C. Harder and K. Mallinson, “The Topography of Non-Cretan Peak Sanctuaries: New Perspectives on Minoan-like Cult Sites”
    E. Fuller, “The Power of the Liminal: A Reassessment of the Relationship Between Kommos and Phaistos in the Protopalatial Period”
    G. Paglione, “Building Roads in the Kingdom of Nestor? Some Thoughts on the Role of to-ko-do-mo in PY An 35”
    L. Kvapil, “Warriors Across the Divide at LBA Aidonia”
    G. Price, “Keeping it in the Family: Relatedness and Mortuary Trends Among the Interred at Aidonia”
    S. Cushman and E. Keyser, “Small Finds in Situ: A Contextual and Diachronic Analysis of Grave Assemblages at Aidonia”
    B. Gillespie, C. Hall, and D. Sakkas, “Ritual, Iconography, and Identity: Object Case Studies from the Aidonia Tombs”
    D. Wheeler, “(Re)Performance and the Mycenaean Funeral: A Case Study from Aidonia”
    S. Kimmey, “What comes next? Aidonia after the Bronze Age”
    A. Van de Moortel, “Life and Death in Prepalatial Elite Building H at Mitrou, Central Greece”
    J. Meier, T. Lynn, and K. Shelton, “The Catalog of Sheep(s): Faunal Records of Caprines at Petsas House, Mycenae”
    O. A. Jones, “Small but Mighty: A Multifaceted Approach to Mycenaean Infant Burial Practices”
    M. G. Clinton, “The Tombs of Mouliana Sellades: Architectural Influence and Cultural Syncretism in East Crete at the End of the Bronze Age”
    A. M. Gaggioli, “Geoarchaeology and Soil Micromorphology Perspectives on Late Helladic Burial and Ritual at Eleon, Greece”
    B. R. Jones, “The Kilts on the ‘Cupbearer’ and Men on the Procession Fresco from Knossos”
    J. McInerney, ‘Pelasgians and Penestai: Class, Race, Ethnicity in Ancient Greece’
    C. Zhang, “Remarks on Myc. ra-wa-ke-ta and Dor. λᾱγέτᾱς”

     

    Social Groups and Production in Mycenaean Economies

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

  • Past Lectures and Conferences

    Information
    30 December 2022

    Relations between the Indus and the Aegean in the Bronze Age

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

     

    Πρωτοπόροι της Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας

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

  • December 2022 issue available

    Information
    01 December 2022

    The December 2022 issue of Nestor (49.9) is available as a free download.

  • Announcements

    Information
    01 December 2022

    Changing of the Guard at INSTAP

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

  • Grants and Fellowships

    Information
    01 December 2022

    Michael Ventris Award

    On 1 February 2023 applications are due for the Michael Ventris Award for Mycenaean Studies for 2023 (up to £2500), 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 (Valerie.James@sas.ac.uk), 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-2023#:~:text=The%20Award%20is%20open%20to,fund%20doctoral%20research%20per%20se.

  • Calls for Papers

    Information
    01 December 2022

    JPR 28

    Contributions are solicited for the next issue of the Journal of Prehistoric Religion (JPR 28), to be published during 2023. JPR is a peer reviewed journal dealing with prehistoric culture and religious beliefs, with topics ranging from excavation data involving shrines, tombs, iconography, cult practice, ritual customs as well as religious continuity in space and time; the scope is worldwide although the Mediterranean area has been predominant in the past. Further information is available from the editor, Jeannette Forsén, at jpr@astromeditions.com.

     

    EMAC2023

    On 15 January 2023 abstracts are due for the 16th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics (EMAC2023), to be held on 14-16 June 2023 in Pisa, Italy. Further information is available at http://emac2023.it/index.php/.

     

    Sympozjum Egejskie

    On 20 March 2023 abstracts (in English, maximum 250 words) are due for the Sympozjum Egejskie. 9th Young Researchers’ Conference in Aegean Archaeology, to be held in hybrid format on 19-20 June 2023 at the University of Warsaw. Proposals are especially welcomed from early career researchers, such as PhD students or candidates, and scholars who have already completed their doctoral research and recently obtained their title. Attendance and participation are free. The proceedings of this conference will be published in the next volume of “Sympozjum Egejskie. Papers in Aegean Archaeology”. Abstracts and personal identifications (title, full name, affiliation, email address, and a personal biography (100 words maximum including ORCID number and/or research webpage links)), and any questions should be sent to egea@uw.edu.pl. Further information is available at https://fb.me/e/1YT6NdUVh or https://www.archeologia.uw.edu.pl/en/department-of-aegean-and-textile-archaeology/.

  • Future Lectures and Conferences

    Information
    01 December 2022

    PoCA 2022

    On 1-3 December 2022 the 19th meeting of Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology (PoCA 2022) will be hosted by The Institute of Classics – Classical and Provincial Roman Archaeology at University of Graz both in person and on-line. Further information is available at https://postgradcypriotarchaeology2022.uni-graz.at/de/program/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    M. Schutti, “Pigs in Prehistoric Cyprus: Zooarchaeological aspects and their role in society”
    P. Kollouros, “Landscape management, environment and cultural associations in Greece and Cyprus during the 1st millennium BCE: evidence from wood charcoal”
    K. Tsirtsi, C. Henkel, J. J. García-Granero, E. Margaritis, E. Alphas Elston, and D. Pilides, “Macro- and micro- botanical remains hand in hand: the cases of Bronze Age Alambra-Kato Lakkos and Agios Sozomenos-Ampelia (Cyprus)”
    E. Loizou, “Ritual Architecture and Behavior from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age: The Evidence from the Cypriot Sanctuaries”
    A. Vanikioti, “The “dog-leg” gate on the Marchello hill: An investigation of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age parallels in Northern Syria and Anatolia”
    L. Pisanu, “From East to West: a seal for researching Late Bronze Age connections between Cyprus and Sardinia
    C. Theotokatou, “So Close Yet So Far? Aspects of Household Organization at Alassa-Pano Mantilaris and Paliotaverna”
    E. Paizi, “Gods and identity. The Phoenician Issue at Kommos and Kition”
    D. Gavriil, “Non Omne Quod Nitet Aurum Est: The Value of the Imports and Imported Materials in Late Bronze Age Palaepaphos”
    B. Clark, “A First Look at the Ceramic Assemblage of the Renewed Excavations at Erimi Pitharka”
    N. Boyd, “Interactions with an ivory gaming box from Enkomi”
    F. Meneghetti, “Through the magnifying glass: a preliminary reassessment of the miniature pottery from Athienou-Bamboullari tis Koukounninas”
    D. Papageorgiou, A. Ladas, and E. Mavros, “Geospatial elements as factors of the settlement organisation in Palaepaphos region during LBA”

     

    Chronos

    On 8-9 December 2022 a workshop entitled Chronos. Stratigraphic Analysis, Pottery Seriation and Radiocarbon Dating in Mediterranean Chronology will be held in Louvain-la-Neuve. Further information is available at https://chronos.minoan-aegis.net/accueil. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    J. Driessen, “Chronos…. Time heals all wounds”
    T. Fantuzzi, “Minoan Eruption chronology: a five decades long debate. History, state of the art and the possible combination of palaeoenvironmental data (Ice cores, tree rings) and archaeological 14C-Gauged Correspondence Analysis as a tool for an integrated approach”
    B. Weninger, “Pottery Time Series in the Aegean Bronze Age based on Correspondence Analysis (CA)”
    K. Eriksson, “The evidence for intersection between the Aegean and Egypt around the time of the Bronze Age eruption of Thera”
    T. Brogan, C. Sofianou, V. Apostolakou, P. Betancourt, and M. Eaby, “Bottoms up: A View of the Theran Volcanic Eruption in the Neopalatial Cups from Chryssi”
    I. Hein, “‘Ezbet Helmi and the eastern Mediterranean - New details and interpretations towards chronology”
    S. Manning, “Deconvolution in Aegean chronology: radiocarbon, dated contexts, target events and history”
    M. Wiener, “The Dating Game: The History and Present State of the Controversy Concerning the Date of the Theran Eruption”
    D. Panagiatopoulos, “How feasible is a new system of Minoan relative chronology?”
    C. Sturge and T. Fantuzzi, “Mining the Labyrinth: Prospects and Pitfalls of Synthetic Research on the Knossian Ceramic Sequence”
    I. Mathioudaki and T. Fantuzzi, “Tackling questions of relative chronologies through Correspondence Analysis: The Neopalatial pottery sequence at Sissi as a case study”
    S. Gimatzidis, “Reconsidering Aegean and Mediterranean chronology from an Iron Age perspective”
    A. Fantalkin, “Mediterranean Chronology during the Iron Age: Where do We Stand?"
    W. Gauss, “Kolonna on Aegina and its contribution to the absolute and relative chronology of the Aegean Bronze Age”
    S. Vitale, C. M. Hale, A. Van de Moortel, M. W. Dee, and N. P. Hermann, “It’s Absolutely Relative: The LH I Stratigraphic and Ceramic Sequences from Mitrou and their 14C Anchor Points”
    C. Pearson, “What's next? Chronological improvements through proxy synchronization and annual 14C”

     

    Death, Rituals and Symbolism

    On 11-13 December 2022 an international online workshop entitled Death, Rituals and Symbolism in Prehistoric Aegean will be held by the International Association for Archaeological Research in Western and Central Asia (ARWA). Further information is available at https://arwa-international.org/events-m/arwa-research-workshops/. The program will be:
    P. Ramirez Valiente, “Where have all the Children Gone? Child Burials and Age–Identities in Neolithic Greece”
    A. Mari, “Death and Bereavement at Marathon: Revealing Neolithic Anthropological Remains in the Cave of Pan”
    K. Bacvarov, N. Nikolova, G. Katsarov, A. Tsurev, and K. McSweeney, “Complexity of Disposal: Neolithic Ditch Burials at Nova Nadezhda, Bulgarian Thrace”
    L. M. Magno and C. M. Hale, “Pebbles, Materiality, and Liminal Spaces in the Aegean Bronze Age”
    L. Vasileou, “The Mortuary Landscape of Zagori through the Study of the Cist Graves at Skamneli (NW Epirus)”
    S. Cushman, “Symbols in Stone? Grave Circles, Enclosures, and Cultural Identities”
    K. Kostanti, “Mycenaean Elite Burials within Settlements. Spatial Manifestations of Power and Authority”
    K. Nikita, “Glass at the Service of the Dead: Jewellery and Ornaments of Blue Glass in Burial Contexts of Mycenaean Attica”
    E. Drakaki, “Manifestations of Status Differentiation in Mycenaean Elite Mortuary Ritual: The Case of the Dendra, Kazarma, and Myrsinochorion/Routsi Burials”
    A. Van de Moortel, “Late Bronze Age Funerary Tumuli at Mitrou, Central Greece: Function, Social Significance, and Symbolism”
    M. Tsipopoulou, “The External Relations of the EBA and MBA Elite Cemetery at Petras (Siteia), Crete: A well Connected Society”
    A. Vergaki, “Rituals and Symbols of Power in Funerary Contexts: Cases from the Mesara Plain and the Asterousia Mountains”
    L. Alberti, “Visible Fragments of Invisible Actions: The Processing of Grief in Prehistoric Knossos, Crete”
    A. Simandiraki–Grimshaw, “Bodies in Flux: Anthropomorphic/Anthropomorphising Vessels from Funerary Contexts in Bronze Age Crete”
    M. N. Pareja, “A Polyvalent Potnia? Female Embodiments of Life in Death in Bronze Age Afro–Eurasia”
    M. N. Pareja and H. Omerzo, “A Matter of Life and Death: Recontextualizing Minoan Genii and Monkeys”
    I. D. Fappas, “Worshippers in a Tomb? The Iconographic Programme of the Monumental Chamber Tomb of Mycenaean Thebes”
    A. Querci, “A Boat is a Boat: some Thoughts on the Presence of Boat Models and Boat Images in Aegean Late Bronze Age Funerary Contexts”
    M. Cultraro, “Dying in an Island. Unpublished Early Bronze Age Tombs around Poliochni, Lemnos (Greece)”
    O. Kouka, “Searching for Mortuary Landscapes in the Early Bronze Age East Aegean”
    V. Şahoğlu and Ü. Gündoğan, “The ‘Special Deposit’ at Bakla Tepe: New Insights into the Rituals Habits of the 3rd Millennium BC Aegean and Anatolia”
    B. Perello, “The Places of Funerary Rituals, from Death to Commemoration: The Example of a Collective Burial from the Karataş Cemetery (EBA)”
    L. Öksüz, “What Quantitative Analysis Can Tell us about Funerary Practices in Western Anatolia during the Bronze Age”
    F. Franković, “Fire, Kraters and Kings: The Role of Cremation in the Expression of Different Social Identities during the 2nd Millennium BCE in West Anatolia”
    E. Brantmayer, “Dead Space: A GIS–Based Approach for Linking Bronze Age Mortuary and Living Landscapes”
    N. N. Köknar, “Identifying Seascape in Western Anatolia: Visibility Analysis of the Late Bronze Age Burials”
    P. W. Stockhammer, E. Skourtanioti, and H. Ringbauer, “Social Belonging in Bronze Age Greece from an Integrative Bioarchaeological Perspective on Burials”
    Y. S. Erdal and M. M. Koruyucu, “Changes in Burial Rites Reflected on Bioarchaeological Data in Western Anatolia: A Case Study on Early Bronze Age Cemeteries at Bakla Tepe”
    C. Henkel and E. Margaritis, “The Archaeobotany of Death: Plant Remains from Mortuary Contexts of Bronze Age Crete”

     

    TAG 43 Edinburgh 2022

    On 15-17 December 2022 the Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference: Revolutions (TAG 43 Edinburgh 2022) will be held at the University of Edinburgh. Further information is available at https://tagedinburgh2022.wordpress.com/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    A. C. Solomou, “Revisiting the Prepalatial cemetery of Moni Odigitria, Crete: a re-interpretation of the existing funerary data through a combined materialistic, post-humanist, and cognitive theoretical framework”
    M. MacDonald, “Introduction: Maritime archaeological theory and the Late Bronze Aegean”
    D. Reeve-Brook and A. Garland, “The Social Network; Assessing the contribution of the Phoenicians to Trans-Aegean social connections in the Late Bronze Age”
    C. Pols, “Sailing the Aegean: GIS Modelling of Late Bronze Age Seafaring and Maritime Connectivity”
    D. Newgarden, “The Cow Goes Moo, the Seal Goes KFAZOP: Pseudo-Anatolian Seals and Trans-Aegean Interaction in the Late 2nd Millennium BCE”
    P. Cummings, “Ships, boats and sea life: new insights into marine imagery present on Minoan seal stones from 2nd Millennium BC Crete”
    A. Ladas, D. Papageorgiou, and S. Mavros, “(R)Evolution of the maritime networks: changing modes of contact between the Aegean and Cyprus during the late LBA”
    I. Camici, “Production Revolution: What can changing pottery technology tell us about connectivity over maritime spaces?”
    M. N. Pareja Cummings, “Assessing Multicultural Material Evidence from Afro-Eurasian Maritime Sites: from the Indus to the Aegean”
    L. Psarologaki, “Minoanism as Post-humanism: Ariadne becomes Aragne”
    S. Aulsebrook, “The Social Role of Metals in the Late Bronze Age Aegean: Inspiration from Adamantium and the Masque of Clavicus Vile”
    A. M. Vergaki, “The Permanent Revolution of Houses and its Social Reverberations in Neopalatial Crete: Let Domestic Rituals Speak!”
    A. C. Solomou, “Are grave goods any good? A combined post-processual and post-humanist approach to the limitations of using grave goods to infer biological sex and gender”

  • Past Lectures and Conferences

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    01 December 2022

    Trans-PLANT

    On 4-22 September Tom Palaima was a Visiting Scholar / Guest Researcher within Rachele Pierini’s Marie Curie project Trans-PLANT (in collaboration with Marie-Louise Nosch), hosted by the Center for Textile Research and the Saxo Institute at the University of Copenhagen. Summaries of his seminar presentations are available at https://sites.utexas.edu/scripts/2022/10/21/tom-palaima-in-copenhagen-september-2022/.

     

    Nostoi II

    On 11-13 November 2022 an international conference entitled Nostoi II. Traveling in the Eastern Mediterranean: Sea + Inland Routes from the Early Bronze to the End of the Early Iron Age was held in Athens. Further information is available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364329835_Roussos_P_M_and_Logothetis_D_2022_Ars_AEgyptiaca_Egyptian_and_Egyptianising_Artefacts_in_Early_Iron_Age_Crete_International_Conference_Nostoi_II_Traveling_in_the_Eastern_Mediterranean_Sea_Inland_Route. The program was:
    E. Sapouna-Sakellaraki, “H Ζώμινθος στέλνει το Ιδαίο δέχεται”
    M. Georgiadis, “Violence and the Unwanted Dead”
    J. B. Knight, “In the Footsteps of Heroes: Ionian Migration and Cult in the Black Sea”
    F. Fragkopoulou, “Early Archaic Ivory Seals in the Ionian Islands and the Peloponnese: Ritual Employment at (Inter)Regional Sanctuaries”
    J. Lamaze, “Hearth-ΕΣΤΙΑ and Ancient Mariners in the Eastern Mediterranean (ca. 1200-500 BC): an overview”
    E. Kozal, “Cilicia as a Composite Landscape: Insularity and Interconnectivity through a Historical and Archeological Perspective in the Late Bronze Age”
    A. Safronov, “Some remarks on the 5th year inscription of Ramses III in Medinet Habu and a possible cause of the Sea Peoples’ migration”
    A. G. Vlachopoulos, “The rock-art fleet of Astypalaia”
    G. Mastropavlos, “Networks and island identities in the Aegean world from the Geometric to the Roman period: The case study of Kasos”
    C. Donnelly, “Clay Balls, Mud Balls: The Influence of Egyptian Writing Practices on Cypro-Minoan”
    E. Jean, “A Navy for a Non-Marine People? The Hittites and the Control of the Seas”
    V. Samaras and P. Gounelas, “‘O strangers, who are you?’ Homeric Piracy and Archaeology”
    I. Zogkos, “Siphnian Post-palatial Nostoi: the Mycenaean acropolis tis Baronas to Froudi”
    D. Nakassis, “Before cabotage? Interregional exchange in the Late Bronze Age”
    D. Logothetis and P.-M. Roussos, “‘Ars Ægyptiaca’. Egyptian and Egyptianising Artefacts in Early Iron Age Crete”
    I. Bossolino, “Iron Age and Archaic Pottery from Rhodes: Local Taste and Foreign Influxes between East and West”
    E. Tsangaraki, I. Fappas, and E. Kiriatzi, “A Mycenaean Storage/Transport Stirrup Jar in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki: The Northernmost Example in the Aegean?”
    N. Sgouritsa, “The Amber in the Eastern Mediterranean”
    M. Pieniążek, “Foreign, local, multicultural: 2nd Millennium BC seals from Western Anatolia”
    P. W. Stockhammer, A. Scott, V. Altmann-Wendling, and C. Warinner, “Long-distance Transfer of Food from South and East Asia to the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd millennium BCE”
    A. Y. Landau, “Trade, Mobility and Canaanite resilience before and after the Late Bronze Age collapse”
    L. A. Hitchcock and A. Maeir, “Naue II Swords, Germs, and Iron: The Potential of Pandemic as a Contributing Factor to the Piratical Activities of the Sea Peoples”
    O. Kouka and S. Menelaou, “‘Κρήτη και Μυτιλήνη, Σάμο κι Iκαριά, Νάξο και Σαντορίνη …’: Interconnections of Samos in the Aegean Middle Bronze Age”
    A. Querci, “‘οὐδέ ποτ’ ἔσβη οὖρος’: An Interpretation of Nestor’s Nostos as a Possible Route Between the Troad and the Peloponnese During the Late Bronze Age”
    D. Rousioti, “Travelling North, Travelling South: The Role of Sea and Inland Routes in the Mycenaean Religious Activity”
    A. M. Greaves, “Beyond the Land/Sea Binary”
    M. Iakovou and K. Kopanias, “Palaepaphos-Marchello from the Kouklia Expedition (1950) to PULP (2006-2008, 2021-2022)”
    V. Şahoğlu, E. Kiriatzi, Ü. Çayır, Ü. Gündoğan, M. Vetters, M. Choleva, T. Maltas, and M. İncırlılı, “Çeşme – Bağlararası: Exploring Transformations in the Sea and Inland Routes in the First Half of the 2nd Millennium BC”
    B. Janeway, “The Kingdom of Palastin: Sea Peoples of the North?”
    Y. Kamış, “Connecting Cultures in the Early Bronze Age: Acemhöyük and the Anatolian trade networks”
    Ç. Maner, “Over the Taurus Mountain Down to the Mediterranean: Connecting the Konya Plain with the Mediterranean during the Bronze and Iron Ages”
    A. Matessi and T. E. Şerifoğlu, “Off the Beaten Tracks: Rough Cilicia as a Transit Zone during the Second Millennium BCE”
    C. McNamee, S. Vitale, and F. Nani, “Built Environment, Funerary Landscape, and Cultural Change: A Case Study from the ‘Serraglio’, Eleona, and Langada on Kos During the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Periods”
    O. Metaxas and I. Voskos, “Post-palatial Mediterranean Networks: A View from the Ionian Islands Towards the East”
    E. Salavoura, “Beyond Perati: Eastern Attica in Postpalatial times”
    S. Vitale and F. Bianchini, “The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age Transition on Kos and the Wider SASCAR: New Data and Preliminary Interpretations”
    I. Külekçi and O. Yildirim, “Larisa (Buruncuk): an Aeolian Site at the Aegean Crossroads”
    S. Günel, “The Cultural Evaluation and Interactions of Çine-Tepecik in the Aegean World”
    M. Montesanto, “The Eastern Mediterranean Economic Exchange: Sabuniye and the Delta Orontes and Amuq Valley”
    S. Spanos, “Koukounaries (Paros) during the Late Helladic IIIC middle period. The Mycenaean pottery of the Lower Plateau and a rare representation of a ship”
    A. Kanta and V. Apostolakou, “The Goddess and the Dragon: Movements of ideas and Materials from the East to Crete and Mycenae. New Evidence from the Lasithi Plateau”
    T. Boloti, “Between East and West: The Adoption of the Warp-weighted Loom in the North-Eastern Aegean During the Bronze Age”
    T. Pılavcı, “Sphinx in Anatolia: Tracing the composite feline form in Hittite visual arts”
    E. Kuruçayırlı, J. Lehner, M. Jansen, and N. Hirschfeld, “New Copper Sources Reflected in the Cape Gelidonya Ingot Cargo”

     

    Cultural Continuity, Change and Interaction

    On 17-18 November 2022 an international symposium entitled Cultural Continuity, Change and Interaction in the Aegean World from the Second to the First Millenium BC was held online, hosted by the Dokuz Eylül University Archaeology and Archeometry Application and Research Center. Further information is available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364942931_INTERNATIONAL_SYMPOSIUM_ON_CULTURAL_CONTINUITY_CHANGE_AND_INTERACTION_IN_THE_AEGEAN_WORLD_FROM_THE_SECOND_TO_FIRST_MILLENIUM_BC_PROGRAM. The program was:
    P. Pavúk and S. Japp, “Middle and Late Bronze Age Bakırçay/Kaikos Valley – Pottery Production and Exchange Based on the NAA Results”
    B. Gür and E. Akdeniz, “A Lentoid Flask from Dağdeviren Mound in Akhisar (Manisa) and an Evaluation on Aegean and Western Anatolian Flask Forms of the Second Millenium BC”
    K. Zannikos, “The Unpublished Pottery from the 2nd Millennium BC Emporio on Chios Island: A Revision of the Late Bronze Age Ceramic Sequence”
    A. Panti, “LBA Pottery from the Caves of Aegean Thrace”
    S. Spanos, “The Mycenaean Pottery from the Temenos-Temple area from Koukounaries and the Connections with the Other Cycladic Islands, Lefkandi and the Argolid”
    A. Lekka, “Cultural Interaction Between the Aegean World and the Eastern Mediterranean Through the Pictorial Pottery of the end of Late Bronze Age”
    R. Yağcı, “LH IIIC Problem in Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean in Terms of East-West Relations”
    I. Soukantos, “Eastern Macedonia (Northern Greece) during the Late Bronze Age: A Cultural Interaction Crossroad Under Investigation”
    M. Başaran Mutlu and G. Sazcı, “Cultural Interaction, Continuity and Change in Maydos During the 2nd Millennium BC”
    M. Başaran Mutlu, “Preliminary Observations on the Role of the Gallipoli Peninsula in Intercultural Communication Networks in the Bronze Ages”
    A. Vlachopoulos and X. Charalambidou, “Socio-cultural Changes and Continuities on Naxos, Cyclades from the Second to the First Millennium BC”
    A. M. Vergaki, “Social Organization and Integration in Late Bronze Age Crete: Let the Rhyta Speak”
    C. V. Alonso-Moreno, “Goods, Routes, and Ships: Long-Distance Interaction in Mycenaean Pylos at the End of Late Helladic IIIB”
    K. Nikita, “Tracing Continuity, Change and Interaction in Luxury Goods: Glass in Post-Palatial Mycenaean Greece”
    C. Atila, “The Effect of Ahhiyawa on the End of the Bronze Age”
    M. H. Kan, “The Sea People and the End of the Era of Chariots: Rise of the Cavalry”
    E. Kortanoğlu and M. Savrum-Kortanoğlu, “Thoughts on Prehistoric and Historical Monumentality in Transition Periods in Greece Continental”
    K. Paschalidis, “From Grave Circle A to the Hellenistic Theater: The Birth of Agamemnon’s Legend on the West Slope of Mycenae”
    C. Gallou and W. Cavanagh, “The ‘Crisis Years’ (Late Helladic IIIC to Submycenaean/Early Protogeometric) in Laconia, Southern Peloponnese, Revisited: A View from the Sea”
    P. Triantafyllidis, “New Evidence of the Ancient Antissa of Lesvos During the Late 2nd and Early 1st Millennium BC”

     

    Olive Oil and Wine Production

    On 24-26 November 2022 an international symposium entitled Olive Oil and Wine Production in the Aegean and Mediterranean in Antiquity: Rural Settlements, Urban Centers and Trade. Eski Çağ’da Ege ve Akdeniz'de Zeytinyaği ve Şarap Üretimi: Kırsal Yerleşimler, Kentsel Merkezler ve Ticaret was held in Muğla, Turkey. Further information is available at http://oiloliveandwinesymposium2022.com/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
    M. Türkteki, İ. Tarhan, M. Massa, S. Türkteki, and Y. Tuna, “The Route and Consumption of Wine and Olive Oil in the Early Bronze Age: A New Perspective Through Organic Residue Analysis from Eskişehir-Küllüoba. Erken Tunç Çağında Şarap ve Zeytinyağının Rotası ve Tüketimi: Eskişehir-Küllüoba'daki Organik Kalıntı Analizleri Üzerinden Yeni Bir Perspektif”
    A. Diler, “Earliest Data on Olive Oil and Wine Production in the Lelegian Peninsula: Adaptation, Transformation and Abandonment. Leleg Yarımadası Zeytinyağı ve Şarap Üretimine İlişkin İlk Veriler: Uyum, Dönüşüm ve Terk”

     

    Aphrodite Rising

    On 26 November 2022 a conference entitled Aphrodite Rising: 25+ Years of Cypriot Studies at Trinity was hosted by Trinity College Dublin. Further information is available at https://www.tcd.ie/classics/research/conferences/aphrodite.php?fbclid=IwAR0blzGKS5QFYzo_pzuesTVdL9dpRsvBAFAGLd8orUIjEQhhaOuG3CMz3DQ. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    C. Morris, “Cypriot Studies in Trinity”
    C. Alexandrou and B. O'Neill, “From a lump of clay to the finished product: an experimental approach to Late Cypriot female figurines”
    L. Recht and K. Zeman-Wiśniewska, “New excavations at Erimi Pitharka”

  • November 2022 issue available

    Information
    01 November 2022

    The November 2022 issue of Nestor (49.8) is available as a free download.

  • Calls for Papers

    Information
    01 November 2022

    MAARC 2023

    On 20 November 2022 paper proposals (250 words maximum) are due for the third annual meeting of the Mediterranean Archaeology Australasian Research Community (MAARC 2023), to be hosted on 13-15 February 2023 online by the University of Sydney. Further information is available at https://mediterraneanarcha.wixsite.com/maarc/annual-meeting. Thematic panels will be:
    • Everything changed when Mediterranean systems collapsed! Causation, effect, and responses to the Late Bronze Age collapse
    • Images of Women, Images by Women? Finding female artists in the ancient world
    • Museums and collections in Australasia
    • Artefact Talks (Lightening Round)
    • Panel Papers
    o Hybrid environments
    o Provenance
    o Community
    o Definitions
    • The History of Mediterranean Archaeological Research in the Antipodes
    • Epigraphy in Mediterranean Archaeology: Texts and Contexts
    • Violence in the Mediterranean World
    • Romans in Malta and the Central Mediterranean
    • Digital Humanities, Public Engagement and Community Participation in Archaeology / Applications of Digital Archaeology in Mediterranean Archaeology
    • Ceramic Continuity in the Mediterranean Near East

     

    PZAF

    On 15 January 2023 abstracts (300 words maximum) are due for the 10th Postgraduate ZooArchaeology Forum (PZAF), to be held on 24-26 May 2023 in Zagreb, Croatia. Further information is available at https://pzaf2023.ffzg.unizg.hr/.

  • Future Lectures and Conferences

    Information
    01 November 2022

    Sparta Live!

    The Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS) of the University of Nottingham has announced the schedule of its Sparta Live! Webinar Series for the Autumn term. The program is hosted jointly by the CSPS and the City of Sparti, Greece. Further information is available at https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/csps/news-and-events/sparta-live.aspx. Webinars take place on Thursday at 5 p.m. (UK time) on MS Teams. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    20 October 2022: A. Papathanasiou, “Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave: a reassessment of past and current research”
    10 November 2022: A. Tsaravopoulos, “Kythera and Laconia, a continuous dependent relationship”

     

    Archaeological Society of Athens

    The Archaeological Society of Athens has announced its series of lectures Αρχαιολογική Εταιρεία. Ανασκαφές σε εξέλιξη. Νέες έρευνες και ευρήματα for the 2022-23. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/TheArchaeologicalSocietyatAthens/. Lectures take place on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. in Athens. Lectures of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    2 November 2022: Α. Βλαχόπουλος, “Οι τοιχογραφίες της Θήρας”
    16 November 2022: Κ. Καζά-Παπαγεωργίου, “Αστέρια Γλυφάδας Αττικής: Εργαστηριακή εγκατάσταση και Νεκροταφείο της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Χαλκού”
    23 November 2022: Σ. Βουτσάκη, “Ο ‘Αγ. Βασίλειος Λακωνίας στην πρώιμη Μυκηναϊκή εποχή: πρώτα συμπεράσματα από το Βόρειο Νεκροταφείο”
    30 November 2022: Ι. Τουρναβίτου, “Η Κάτω Πόλη των Μυκηνών στη Μετανακτορική περίοδο. Η περίπτωση της Ανατολικής Οικίας”
    21 December 2022: Κ. Καλογερόπουλος, “Προϊστορικές αρχαιολογικές έρευνες στην ακρόπολη της Βραυρώνας κατά τα έτη 1950-2001”

     

    INSTAP-SCEC LECTURES

    The Institute for the Study of Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete (INSTAP-SCEC) has announced its schedule of lectures for Autumn 2022. Further information is available at https://instapstudycenter.net/lecture-series/. Lectures are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. (Greek time) on Zoom; registration is required in advance. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    2 November 2022: C. Pearson, “New Prospects for a Tree-ring 14C Based Chronology for Crete?”
    16 November 2022: R. A. K. Smith, “Mycenaeans at Gournia? Exploring Pottery and Identity in the Late Minoan IB to Late Minoan III Transition”
    21 November 2022: L. Kaiser, “Life and Death at Early Bronze Age Mochlos”

     

    EuroMed 2022

    On 7-11 November 2022 the International Conference on Digital Heritage (EuroMed 2022): Digital Cultural Heritage Documentation, Preservation and Protection will be held on Cyprus. Further information is available at https://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/euromed2022/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include*:
    H. Yigit Zafer, “Enthroned Late Minoan Goddess with Upraised Arms Goes Digital : A Case Study of Photogrammetric Documentation and Restitution”
    * Only first authors are listed in the online program.

     

    Προστασια, Στερεωση, Αναδειξη και Διαχειριση Μνηµειων και Αρχαιολογικων Χωρων

    On 11 November 2022 a scientific meeting entitled Προστασία, Στερέωση, Ανάδειξη και Διαχείριση Μνηµείων και Αρχαιολογικών Χώρων: Θεωρία και Πράξη: Ι. Προϊστορικοί Χρόνοι will be held in Athens, organized by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). Further information is available at http://www.arxeion-politismou.gr/2022/10/prostasia-stereosi-anadeixi.html. The link to the event is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ZhkoaueTk. The program will be:
    Π. Τριανταφυλλίδης, “Προϊστορικός οικισμός Πολιόχνης Λήμνου: το μεγάλο έργο της αποκατάστασης του μνημείου κατά τα έτη 2016-2022”
    Α. Γεωργόπουλος, Σ. Ταπεινάκη, and Ι. Δεληγιάννης, “Οι σύγχρονες τεχνολογίες για την υποστήριξη του ανασκαφικού έργου για την ανάδειξη του αρχαιολογικού χώρου της Πολιόχνης στην Λήμνο”
    Γ. Ντουνιάς, “Γεωτεχνική και υδραυλική μελέτη για τη στερέωση, προστασία και ανάδειξη του αρχαιολογικού χώρου της Πολιόχνης στη Λήμνο”
    Α. Ντάρλας, “Σπήλαια: Ανάδειξη, προστασία, συντήρηση μια ιδιαίτερης κατηγορίας μνημείων”
    Δ. Εγγλέζος, “Ιδιαιτερότητες των στερεωτικών επεμβάσεων σε σπήλαια αρχαιολογικού ενδιαφέροντος: Το παράδειγμα των Πετραλώνων Χαλκιδικής και της Θεόπετρας Τρικάλων”
    Α. Παπασωτηρίου, “Ο σχεδιασμός των υποδομών ανάδειξης του σπηλαίου των Πετραλώνων”
    Α. Οικονόμου, “Έλεγχος και διατήρηση μικροκλίματος στο πλαίσιο ανάδειξης των σπηλαίων. Βιωσιμότητα και νέες προκλήσεις”
    Ε.-Ε. Τουμβακάρη, “Σταθεροποιημένα κονιάματα από τοπικό εδαφικό υλικό για τη στερέωση και συντήρηση προϊστορικών καταλοίπων: σχεδιασμός, έρευνα, εφαρμογή”
    Ο. Βικάτου, “Οι προϊστορικού τύμβοι στο Στενό Νυδριού Λευκάδας. Από την ανασκαφή του W. Dörpfeld στην υλοποίηση του έργου προστασίας, στερέωσης και ανάδειξής τους: σχεδιασμός, μεθοδολογία, υλοποίηση, αποτελέσματα”
    Σ. Χλουβεράκη, “Πρόγραμμα συντήρησης του Μινωικού οικισμού στο Μόχλο Λασιθίου: δέκα χρόνια στερεωτικών επεμβάσεων”
    Θ. Κατρακάζης and Σ. Χλουβεράκη, “Εργασίες πεδίου: πιλοτικές εφαρμογές αργιλοκονιαμάτων και σωστικές επεμβάσεις στον αρχαιολογικό χώρο του Κομμού στην Κρήτη”
    Θ. Μαρίνης and Σ. Αποστολίδου, “Διερεύνηση στεγάστρων μεγάλων ανοιγμάτων σε αρχαιολογικούς χώρους και σχεδιασμός του στεγάστρου στον Άγιο Βασίλειο Λακωνίας”
    M. Schmid, “Στέγαστρα για την προστασία και ανάδειξη μνημείων στους αρχαιολογικούς χώρους των Μαλίων στην Κρήτη και Καλαβασού στην Κύπρο”
    Δ. Λεβέντης, “Νέο υπόστεγο πρωτοελλαδικού νεκροταφείου στο Τσέπι Αττικής. Προβληματισμοί πριν, κατά τη διάρκεια και μετά την υλοποίηση του έργου”
    Γ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Στέγαστρο προϊστορικών τύμβων στον αρχαιολογικό χώρο στην περιοχή Βρανά Μαραθώνος”

     

    ICAZ-ASWA 2022

    On 28 November - 2 December 2022 the 15th International meeting of The Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas Working Group (ICAZ-ASWA 2022) will be held in Tokyo, Japan. Further information is available at https://www.aswa2022.jp/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include*:
    G. İlgezdi Bertram, “Animal Exploitation in the Neolithic Period in Inner-Western Anatolia: The Evidence of Ekşi Höyük (Denizli, Türkiye)”
    K. Trantalidou, “Hunting and rituals of adulthood on mountain Dikte in Crete through the animal remains”
    K. Grossman, “Human-animal-divine relationships in Iron Age Cyprus: a social zooarchaeology of sacrifice”
    J.-D. Vigne, “The extinct small Cypriot wild boar (Sus scrofa circeus) was locally domesticated during the Middle PPNB”
    L. Frantz, “Zooarchaeological and paleogenomic evidence for long term reproductive isolation between wild and domestic cats”
    J. Peters, “New insights into the early cultural history of the domestic chicken”
    * Only first authors are listed in the online program.

     

    Athens and Attica in the Early Iron Age and the Archaic Period

    On 8-11 December 2022 a symposium entitled Η Αθήνα και η Αττική κατά την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Σιδήρου και την Αρχαϊκή περίοδο. Athens and Attica in the Early Iron Age and the Archaic Period will be hosted at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Registration is available at https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/events/details/symposium-athens-and-attica-in-the-early-iron-age-and-the-archaic-period; further information is available at https://www.esag.swiss/aa2022/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    Ν. Πολυχρονάκου–Σγουρίτσα, “Υπομυκηναϊκή Αττική. Μια επαναπροσέγγιση”
    A. Knodell and S. Fachard, “Attic land routes and settlement patterns from the Early Iron Age to the Archaic period”
    E. Kroustalis and A. Tsaravopoulos, “Protogeometric finds by the Kephisos River as evidence for an early episode in the ‘internal colonization’ of Attica”
    S. Murray, M. Godsay, and G. Erny, “The Early Iron Age and Archaic Period around Porto Rafti Bay: insights from recent surface survey data”
    Μ. Στεφανοπούλου, “Νεώτερες αρχαιολογικές μαρτυρίες για τη Γεωμετρική και Αρχαϊκή περίοδο στην Κηφισιά”
    X. Charalambidou, E. Andrikou, A. Dakouri–Hild, S. Davis, and M. Chidiroglou, “Adding Aphidna/Kotroni to the archaeological map of Early Iron Age and Archaic–Classical Attica through the KASP interdisciplinary project”
    Ά. Παπαδημητρίου–Γραμμένου, Π. Γεωργίου–Γκέκα, Π. Πετρίδης, Κ. Καλλιγά, and Έ. Καρακίτσου, “Η ανασκαφή στο λόφο Κοτρώνι Καπανδριτίου και η σημασία των ευρημάτων της κατά την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Σιδήρου και την Αρχαϊκή περίοδο”
    J. Bergemann, R. Docter, A. Alexandridou, R. Klug, C. Stal, Q. Drillat, and K. Regnier, “An Early Iron Age house in Thorikos – New evidence from excavations in 2021/2022”
    Y. Papadatos, G. Vavouranakis, and N. Dimakis, “The Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age transition at Plasi, Marathon: new evidence from the excavations of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens”
    A. Mazarakis Αinian, V. Vlachou, and E. Chatzinikolaou, “(Mapping) Household organization in Early Iron Age Oropos”
    T. Van Damme, “New Early Iron Age finds from the Mycenaean fountain on the North Slope of the Acropolis”
    Ε. Σιουμπάρα, “Το μυκηναϊκό τείχος της Ακρόπολης των Αθηνών, η εξελικτική του πορεία ως τα Περσικά και η συμβολή του στον καθορισμό του περιβάλλοντος χώρου του ιερού της Αθηνάς”
    O. Kakavogiannia, E. Andrikou, and N. Petrocheilos, “ἐν δὲ Πρασιεῦσιν ᾿Απόλλωνός ἐστι ναός (Paus. 1.31.2): The material dated from the Late Helladic to the Archaic period”
    A. Bonnier and S. Fachard, “Agriculture, land use, and environment in Early Iron Age and Archaic Attica”
    B. Dimova, “Textile economy in Athens during the Early Iron Age and the Archaic period”
    M. Rönnberg, “Funerary variability in Early Iron Age and Early Archaic Attica”
    F. Ruppenstein, “The Kerameikos in the Early Iron Age and in modern scholarship: an overview”
    V. Vlachou, “Exploring the funerary landscape of Early Iron Age Marathon”
    Μ. Κοντοπανάγου and Ά. Λάγια, “Η παρουσία βρεφικών οστών σε καύσεις από το νεκροταφείο των Yπομυκηναϊκών–Πρωτογεωμετρικών χρόνων επί της οδού Ηρώδου Αττικού 2 στην Αθήνα”
    T. Poulou, “Athenian Geometric gold jewellery: the female elite of Middle–Geometric Athens reconsidered”
    D. Logothetis and P. Roussos, “Aegyptiaca Atheniensia et Attica. Preliminary remarks on Egyptian and Egyptianizing artefacts from Early Iron Age Athens, Attica, and the Saronic Gulf”
    K. Papagiannakis and A. Alexandridou, “Some unknown non-funerary evidence for habitation in ‘Submycenean’ and Protogeometric Athens”
    C. Lambrugo, “Turning world new insights into the burial practices of Early Iron Age Athens”
    Ά. Μανιάκη, “Οι γυναίκες κάνουν τη διαφορά! Περιπτώσεις διακεκριμένων «γυναικείων» ταφών στην Αθήνα και την Αττική κατά την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Σιδήρου. Διαπιστώσεις, ομοιότητες και διαφορές”
    P. Stockhammer, N. Papadimitriou, E. Andrikou, E. Kontouri, C. Merkouri, S. Chryssoulaki, J. Krause, A. Mittnik, H. Ringbauer, E. Skourtanioti, and A. Tiliakou, “The Attica Archaeogenetic Project: a collaboration of the Ephorates of Attica and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology”
    J. Wilde, “Imitations of Cypriot-type bronze tripods and related vessel stands”
    S. Chryssoulaki, T. Krapf, F. de Polignac, L. Vokotopoulos, S. Michalopoulou, and J. André, “Hellanion Oros on Aegina: a mountain peak site in plain view of Athens”
    M. Kayafa, “Diachronic Lavrion? Lead Isotope data, ore mining and metallurgy in Attica from the Early Iron Age to the Archaic period”
    Μ. Γιαννοπούλου, “Διασυνδέσεις μεταξύ Αττικής και Τροιζηνίας στην Πρώιμη Εποχή του Σιδήρου και στην Αρχαϊκή περίοδο”
    D. Greger, “Neighbourly relationships: Attic and Euboean interactions in the Early Iron Age”

     

    FoMArc

    On 9-10 December 2022 the 1st Graduate Forum for Mediterranean Archaeology (FoMArc): Archaeological graduate research in the Mediterranean from prehistory to the recent past will be held as a hybrid international conference hosted by the Archaeological Research Unit and the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus. Further information is available at https://www.ucy.ac.cy/fomarc/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    A. B. Knapp, “Merchants and mercantile society on Late Bronze Age Cyprus”
    A. Vrettou, “Transcultural routes of communication between Cyclades and Crete during the Early Bronze Age”
    T. Stamatia Andreovits, “Miniature bodies, miniature subjects: The reconstruction of identities through the study of micrographic bodies in Aegean Bronze Age seals”
    E. de Benectis, “The tools of trade of Late Bronze Age Cyprus: A view from Morphou bay”
    C. Theotokatou, “Wayfaring in Late Cypriot communities: Houses and households”
    A. Barouda, “Exploring the pottery and plaster production technologies at Neolithic Makri, Thrace, Greece”
    M. Rousou, “Interpreting the use of fruit trees during the pre-pottery Neolithic Cyprus: A correlation of the archaeobotanical and ethnobotanical data”
    P. Koullouros, “Landscape management, environment, and cultural associations in Greece and Cyprus during the 1st millennium BCE: Evidence from wood charcoal”
    S. Sofra, “The economic centers of east Crete through the study of utilitarian pottery during the Neopalatial period”
    C. Minos, “Ceramic technologies of the Late Bronze Age in Cyprus: A technological, compositional, and experimental archaeological investigation of utilitarian pottery from Enkomi and Aghios Sozomenos”
    T. Ogawa, “A holistic approach to the study of cooking ware from Toumba Thessalonikis, from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age”
    J. Bobik, “Zoomorphic appliqués on ceramic vessels from LBA in western Anatolia”
    D. Snook, “Are objects agents of civilization? The role of exotic high-status materials and objects in the Late Cypriot period (LCIA-IIIB); An exploration of materiality and identity in the context of Late Bronze Age 'globalism' in the east Mediterranean”
    A. Ferguson, “Object analysis of the early Bronze Age Kotsiatis Shrine Model: Does this model depict ritual or religious action within an ancient Cypriot heterotopia?”
    E. Stefani, “The Necropoleis of Amathous: Mortuary topography, funerary architecture and burial practices during the first millennium B.C.”
    O. Boitte, “Archers in Mycenae Shaft Graves?”
    K. Argyraki, “The perception of prehistoric Antiquity in 19th century Greece”

  • Past Lectures and Conferences

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    01 November 2022

    Necropoleis Research Network 5th Annual Meeting

    On 12-13 October 2022 the Necropoleis Research Network 5th Annual Meeting, was held at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Further information is available at https://www.academia.edu/74167891/CfP_Necropolis_Research_Network_5th_Annual_Meeting_Athens_October_12_13_2022. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
    D. Bosnakis and E. Skerlou, “New Evidence on Primary Cremations from the Early Iron Age Kos”
    O. Kaklamani, “Into the Fire or Not: Some considerations on infant and child burials in necropoleis of the Aegean islands”
    E. Kalliga, M. Korelidou, and C. Papageorgopoulou, “The Evolution of Beta Thalassemia in the Aegean Region Throughout Time. A bioarchaeological approach”
    M. Koukli, F. Siegmund, and C. Papageorgopoulou, “Estimating Stature for Ancient Greeks: how tall were they? Populations-specific equations and diachronic body height trends”
    E. Pappi, “Untimely loss: child burials in Geometric Argos”
    S. Triantaphyllou, N. Papakonstantinou, Y. Chatzikonstantinou, S. Kiorpe, and V. Papathanasiou, “TEFRA: The technology and the bio-anthropology of the use of fire on human remains in the Aegean”
    A. Katsaveli, V. Papathanasiou, Y. Chatzikonstantinou, N. Papakonstantinou and S. Triantaphyllou, “TEFRA Project: the study of cremation in Iron Age Macedonia”
    A. Tiliakou, “Communities in Transition? Human groups dynamics in the Greek Neolithic”

     

    Πλεων επι οινοπα ποντον

    On 14-16 October 2022 the 10ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Φοιτητών/τριών Αρχαιολογίας on the theme “Πλέων ἐπί οἴνοπα πόντον: Η σχέση του ανθρώπου με τη θάλασσα στη διαχρονία της”, was held in Athens. Further information is available at https://hub.uoa.gr/10th-panhellenic-congress-of-archeology-students/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:
    Κ. Μαστορογιάννης, “Κινούμενη... θάλασσα”
    Ά. Κουτσογεωργοπούλου, “Η θάλασσα ως δίαυλος της Νεολιθικοποίησης: Μια προσεκτική ματιά στις περιπτώσεις των σπηλαίων Φράγχθι και Κύκλωπα”
    Ι. Άντσου, Α. Κοτζαμπουρούνη, and Ι. Ε. Παπαιωάννου, “Σπήλαιο Φράγχθι: ανθρώπινη θαλάσσια δραστηριότητα την Παλαιολιθική με Νεολιθική περίοδο”
    Ν. Α. Βέκιου, Κ. Νικολόπουλος, and Γ. Ρούγας, “Όστρεα και Αιγαίο: η χρήση τους στην καθημερινή ζωή”
    Θ. Λαζαρής, “Αναζητώντας το φάσμα εκμετάλλευσης της θαλάσσιας πανίδας: το παράδειγμα της Ακεραμικής Νεολιθικής της Κύπρου”
    Ε. Καπότη, “Ακρωτήρι-Αετόκρεμνος Κύπρου: Η σπουδαιότητα της θέσης για το παλαιοπεριβάλλον της Κύπρου”
    Δ. Καρατζάνης, “Οι Αντιλήψεις Σχετικά με την Θάλασσα στις Πρώιμες Κυκλάδες: Το Παράδειγμα της Κέρου”
    Α. Παπαδοκωνσταντάκης and Κ. Μαυρογιάννη, “‘Η Κνωσός πριν τον Μίνωα’: Η ανασύσταση των ΠΜ Ι-ΙΙΑ κοινωνικών και βιοτεχνικών δομών υπό το πρίσμα της εννοιολόγησης του λιμενικού κέντρου του Πόρου-Κατσαμπά και της σχέσης του με την ανάπτυξη της Κνωσού”
    Α.-Ν. Πεφάνη, “Η θάλασσα ως δίαυλος μετάδοσης συμβόλων και αντιλήψεων: Μινωική επιρροή μέσα από τις απεικονίσεις θρησκευτικών συμβόλων στην εικονογραφία εκτός Κρήτης”

     

    VIII Purpureae Vestes

    On 19-21 October 2022 the international symposium VIII Purpureae Vestes: Tradition and Innovation in Textile Production in the Mediterranean World and Beyond was held in Athens. Further information is available at https://purpureaevestes.weebly.com/programme.html. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
    A. Ulanowska, “Diachronic overview of textile techniques from textile imprints preserved on the undersides of clay sealings from Bronze Age Greece”
    G. Muti, “Textile production and its socioeconomic role in the transition between the Middle and Late Bronze Age in Cyprus”
    K. Sarri, “Textile Production in the Aegean Neolithic. Revisiting the evidence from Sesklo and Dimini”
    M. E. Alberti and S. Muller, “Manufacture of loom-weights in Minoan Crete: first observations from the town of Malia between the Protopalatial and Neopalatial periods (1900 – 1500 BCE ca.)”

     

    Book Launch: Akrotiri, Thera. 40 Years of Research (1967-2007)

    On 21 October 2022 a presentation of the book Akrotiri, Thera. 40 Years of Research (1967-2007) was held in Athens. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/groups/230503754201416/posts/1198578250727290/?_rdc=1&_rdr. The program was:
    Τ. Δεβετζή “Η Εταιρεία Στήριξης Σπουδών Προϊστορικής Θήρας και οι εκδόσεις της”
    R. Barber, “Στρωματογραφία και Χρονολόγηση”
    Λ. Πλάτων, “Πολεοδομία και Αρχιτεκτονική Ιδεολογία και Τέχνη”
    S. MacGillivray, “Τεχνολογία και Οικονομία, Περιβάλλον και Διατροφή”

     

    Mining and metallurgy in Greece

    On 26 October 2022 a study day entitled Mines et métallurgies en Grèce et dans les régions voisines, de l’Antiquité au XXe siècle. Mining and metallurgy in Greece and surrounding areas, from Antiquity to the 20th century was held in Laurion. Further information is available at https://listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/arc/athena/2022-09/msg00012.html. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
    N. Nerantzis, “Recent archaeometallurgical studies in the North Aegean – examples from prehistory and antiquity”
    B. Jagou and F. Gaignerot-Driessen, “Le quartier de la forge de l’Anavlochos (Crète)”

     

    Regional variation in Mycenaean pottery

    On 27-28 October 2022 an international workshop entitled Regional variation in Mycenaean pottery was hosted online by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Further information is available at https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com%2Fs%2Fenb8o74gcm1wegr%2FRegional_Variation_Program.pdf%3Fdl%3D0&data=05%7C01%7Cnestor%40ucmail.uc.edu%7C2ea88af7ea2246ba34ec08dab5db8aa5%7Cf5222e6c5fc648eb8f0373db18203b63%7C1%7C0%7C638022251898458168%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=YwopQ9MgW9ymViEaJvLyKtOb8QSQmequvy%2B1a1sGxYA%3D&reserved=0 and https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com%2Fs%2Fkbtreao83arqwvr%2FRegional_Variation_Abstracts.pdf%3Fdl%3D0&data=05%7C01%7Cnestor%40ucmail.uc.edu%7C2ea88af7ea2246ba34ec08dab5db8aa5%7Cf5222e6c5fc648eb8f0373db18203b63%7C1%7C0%7C638022251898458168%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=p%2FaGsH%2BGQg9pcSKxMNYENKlIyv8M8QWh%2F0SnupVpPdg%3D&reserved=0 The program was:
    B. Lis, Welcome and introduction
    M. Lindblom, “MH IV or LH I. Why Mycenaean starts in LH IIA”
    K. Shelton, “Petsas House pottery: production, products, and percentages in the Late Helladic IIIA workshop at Mycenae”
    E. Kardamaki, “Argive style pottery as a benchmark? Distribution and consumption of painted styles deriving from the Argive workshops “
    W. Gauss, D. Frank, and E. Kreuz, “Considerations on Late Bronze Age Aeginetan pottery - Mycenaean vs Aeginetan”
    V. Hachtmann, “Similarities and dissimilarities of ceramic assemblages between subregions of Laconia and what they may mean”
    P. Thomas, “A View from the Terrace: Late Helladic Pottery at Iklaina, Messenia”
    M. Gazis, “Incoming and outgoing. Ceramic traditions in Late Mycenaean western Achaea. The case of Teichos Dymaion”
    C. Langohr, “The skeleton in the closet. Late Minoan II-IIIB ceramic regionalism before and after the final destruction of Knossos”
    J. Zurbach and L. Garnery, “LH III Material from recent excavations at Kirrha, Phocis”
    E. Andrikou, “Observations on regional variation on LH IIIB2 (late) pottery from Thebes”
    E. Karantzali, “Regional variability in Mycenaean pottery: Some thoughts on local Mycenaean pottery in the Spercheios valley”
    B. Lis and A. Batziou, “The earliest imported and locally produced Mycenaean pottery in coastal Thessaly”
    S. Koulidou, “Mycenaean pottery from the eastern slopes of Macedonian Olympus revisited: the search for regional variations at the “Trimpina/Platamon Stop” and “Rema Xydias” cemeteries”
    T. Van Damme, “LH IIIC in Athens and Attica: Archaisms, innovations, and Cycladic connections”
    A. Belza, “Ceramic consumption patterns at Ayia Irini, Kea in the Mycenaean period”
    S. Vitale: “Koine and regional variation in Mycenaean tableware pottery: From theory to case study”

     

    The Northern Peloponnese from East to West

    On 31 October - 1 November 2022 a symposium entitled The Northern Peloponnese from East to West: New Research by Young Scholars was held at the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens. Further information is available at https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/events/event-detail/t-he-northern-peloponnese-from-east-to-west-new-research-by-young-scholars. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    A. Vlachou, “Early cult practices in the Northeastern Peloponnese: new insights based on the old and recent archaeological research”
    D. Vlanti, M. Petrakis, and G. Papadias, “Establishing the cult of Poseidon Heliconius in ancient Helike, Achaea. Pottery and metal finds from the Early Iron Age altar”
    S. Cushman, “Dying outside the palace: New perspectives on mortuary changes in the late Bronze Age Argolid”
    A. Maniaki, “Distinguished ‘female’ burials of the Early Iron Age in the Northern Peloponnese. Observations and preliminary results”
    G. di Lorenzo, “Still on Italian-European metals in Achaia between LH IIIC and Early Iron Age: from the object to the reconstruction of the context”

  • October 2022 issue available

    Information
    02 October 2022

    The October 2022 issue of Nestor (49.7) is available as a free download.

  • Calls for Papers

    Information
    02 October 2022

    2023 World Neolithic Congress

    On 6 November 2022 session proposals are due for the 2023 World Neolithic Congress, to be held in Sanliurfa, Turkey on 18-22 September 2023. Further information is available at https://worldneolithiccongress.org/.

     

    EAA AM 2023

    On 10 November 2022 proposals for sessions are due for the 29th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA AM 2023), to be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland from 30 August - 2 September 2023. From 19 December 2022 until 15 February 2018 paper and poster abstract submission will be open; on 27 April 2023 registration and payment is due from submitting authors. Further information and forms are available at https://www.e-a-a.org/eaa2023.

  • Future Lectures and Conferences

    Information
    02 October 2022

    58th ARU Public Lectures

    The program of the 58th 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://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fucy.zoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregister%2FtJclcOutqjIuG9b0417NDxxSmK49c50x1XEt%23%2Fregistration&data=05%7C01%7Cnestor%40ucmail.uc.edu%7C19769de36d044150c81d08da9b344f28%7Cf5222e6c5fc648eb8f0373db18203b63%7C1%7C0%7C637992946218871043%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3dp9AGLZ0KwDs2a6vwfYy4Tw1c3p6raC4J2%2F9Sa5Nzc%3D&reserved=0. The schedule will be:
    3 October 2022: C. Schwall, “Golden times: Early Bronze Age gold objects as indicator for long distance trade networks”
    10 October 2022: J. Maran, “Beyond Schliemann’s footsteps: new insights into the transformation of Tiryns from the 13th to the 12th century BCE”
    17 October 2022: V. Stissi, “From sherds and dots on maps to people and polis: the case of ancient Halos”
    24 October 2022: K. Sarri, “Textile technologies in Aegean Prehistory: fabrics, tools and sources”
    31 October 2022: M. Vakondiou, “Η γλυπτική στη βενετική Κρήτη: η καταγραφή, τα ερωτήματα, οι προοπτικές της έρευνας”
    7 November 2022: F. Meneghetti, “Leaving no stone unturned: an update on miniature oxhide ingots from Late Bronze Age Cyprus”
    14 November 2022: B. Düring, “Chalcolithic Cyprus revisited: seven seasons at Chlorakas-Palloures”
    21 November 2022: L. Bombardieri, “A wall with a view: ideological identities and roles at Erimi in the Prehistoric Kouris valley”
    28 November 2022: W. Caraher, “Late Antiquity at Polis: recent research”
    5 December 2022: F. Hadjichristofi, “‘Calliope but which Calliope’, on the Akaki mosaic”

     

    Mycenaean Seminars

    The University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of Classical Studies has announced the following schedule of Mycenaean Seminars for 2022-2023, to take place in the Institute of Classical Studies, London and accessible via Zoom. Advance registration is required for attendance either in person or online. Unless otherwise stated, Mycenaean Seminars begin at 3:30 pm. Further information is available at https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/seminar-and-lecture-programmes.
    12 October 2022: E. Egan, “Pattern Games: Playing with Ornament in Pylian Painting”
    9 November 2022: T. Kiely, Title to be announced
    7 December 2022: B. Legarra Herrero, “Minoan Gold: A Biographical Approach to Prestigious Items”
    18 January 2023: L. Recht, “Equids in the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean”
    15 February 2023: Q. Letesson, “A Prepalatial Community at Sissi (Crete): Contextualization of an Early Bronze Age Village”
    15 March 2023: K. Shelton, “The Cemeteries at Aidonia: Updates and Insights from the TAPHOS Project” [Seminar sponsored by INSTAP]
    17 May 2023, 5 pm: M. Cosmopoulos, “The Emergence of Mycenaean States: New Evidence from the Excavations at Iklaina” [Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture]

     

    13 ICCS

    On 5-9 October 2022 the ΙΓ΄ Διεθνούς Κρητολογικού Συνεδρίου. 13th International Congress of Cretan Studies will be held in Agios Nikolaos, Crete. Further information is available at https://www.13-ICCS.gr. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    Α. Ι. Ντάρλας, Η “Παλαιολιθική κατοίκηση της Κρήτης» δέκα χρόνια μετά τις πρώτες ανακαλύψεις: Επισκόπηση της μεγάλης ανατροπής στην κρητική προϊστορία”
    C. Morris and A. Peatfield, “Healing and spirituality at Minoan peak sanctuaries”
    T. Strasser, “The interface of hominins and Pleistocene fauna: the status of issue”
    C. Murphy, “Disease or injury? Re-examining the Petsophas body-part figurines”
    L. Bonga, “Μια επανεξέταση της Νεολιθικής Κρήτης”
    G. Rethemiotakis, P. B. Betancourt, and G. Lazoura, “Deforming diseases and health issues depicted on figurines from the Mamaloukos peak sanctuary at Galeniano Pediada”
    L. Goodison, “An unpublished pendant from Krasi B, with thoughts on discontinuities in figurines and tombs FN—EMI”
    T. Alusik, “Health, disease and medicine in Crete from the Neolithic to 500 BC” [online]
    P. Tomkins, “Reformation, rupture, return. New risings and the enduring power of place at Knossos around the dawn of the Bronze Age (Subneolithic-EM I)”
    Κ. Κόπακα, “Δόντια καρχαρία από την Εποχή του Χαλκού στη Γαύδο και τα λιόκουρνα στη λαϊκή θεραπευτική παράδοση”
    K. Nowicki, “Making the Invisible Visible: Pre-Final Neolithic Settlement in Crete”
    Π. Η. Μ. Κουσούλης and Χ. Παπαδάκη, “Μαγικοθρησκευτικές ιαματικές πρακτικές στη Μινωική Κρήτη”
    S. Bell, “‘Chosen glory’ or ‘chosen trauma’? Cultural memory of discontinuity and its possible connection to post-abandonment visitation at LM IIIC ‘defensive’ settlements on Crete”
    Τ. Μπολώτη, “Οι Μυκηναίοι στην Κρήτη: Ρήξη με/χωρίς ανατροπή;”
    N. Xifaras, “Continuities and discontinuities in Crete from the 12th to the 6th c. BC and the rise of the polis”
    S. Todaro, “‘Melior de cinere surgo’: Phaistos and the Yeropotamos valley between 2200 and 2050 BC (EM IIB-EM III)”
    Ι. Βενιέρη, “‘Μετά την καταστροφή’: Η μινωϊκή εγκατάσταση στο Αποδούλου Αμαρίου στις αρχές της νεοανακτορικής περιόδου”
    I. Caloi, “The foundation of the First Palace at Phaistos: between continuity and discontinuity”
    Γ. Τζεδάκις and Β. Κολυβάκη, “Συνέχειες και ασυνέχειες στην ευρύτερη περιοχή του Βρύσινα. Η περίπτωση των Αρμένων”
    F. M. Carinci, “Continuity and discontinuity in the Phaistos road system during the Bronze Age”
    E. Hallager, “Evidence for two LM IB destructions at Chania”
    G. Baldacci, “Breaking with the past: Changing patterns in the occupational history of Agia Triada from the Prepalatial to the Protopalatial period” [online]
    Κ. Σμπόνιας, “Ο ΥΜ ΙΙΙΓ οικισμός του Βρύσινα: Συνέχειες και ασυνέχειες στο ορεινό τοπίο στην Εποχή του Χαλκού”
    L. Girella, “Between ruptures and continuity: the MM IIIA and IIIB evidence at Phaistos and Hagia Triada”
    Ε. Γεροντάκου, Λ. Πλάτων, and Α. Σαλίχου, “Η αρχιτεκτονική ως «δείκτης» κοινωνικο-οικονομικών ή/και πολιτικών μεταβολών μεγάλης κλίμακας στο εσωτερικό μινωικών εγκαταστάσεων: η περίπτωση της Ζάκρου”
    D. Puglisi, “LM IB rupture(s) in context: a view from Hagia Triada”
    Μ. Κυρίτση, “Οικογένειες σε μεταβολή: Συνέχειες και ασυνέχειες στον χαρακτήρα των οικιακών ομάδων από τη Νεοανακτορική στη Μετανακτορική περίοδο, με έμφαση στο παράδειγμα του μινωικού οικισμού της Κάτω Ζάκρου”
    O. Palio, “The LM IA period at Phaistos: an age of transition”
    Λ. Βοκοτόπουλος and Τ. Καλαντζοπούλου, “Κατσουνάκι Ξερόκαμπου: ένα περιφερειακό κέντρο στην επικράτεια της Ζάκρου”
    A. Greco, “From the wanaktes of Knossos to the basileis of Phaistos”
    Β. Ισαακίδου and Μ. Τσιποπούλου, “Το τέλος της αρχής ή η αρχή του τέλους: Τελετουργική ΜΜΙΙΑ πράξη στο νεκροταφείο του Πετρά Σητείας”
    E. Borgna, “Phaistos at the LBA-EIA transition: demise and rupture or the beginning of a new era?”
    D. W. Rupp and M. Tsipopoulou, “First impressions are not always accurate. A disruption that created a complex stratigraphical sequence in the Pre- and Protopalatial Petras - Kephala cemetery (Sitia)”
    F. Buscemi, “Change and continuity in architectural tradition between the XIII and the VIII century BC: the ‘Wal(l) project’” [online]
    Μ. Τσιποπούλου, “‘You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows’: Ασυνέχεια στο τέλος της ΠΜΙΙ στον οικισμό και το νεκροταφείο του Πετρά Σητείας”
    M. Scafuro and F. Longo, “Continuity and discontinuity in Phaistos: The emergence of the polis”
    J. Driessen, “‘Επανάσταση’. Ανθρωπογενείς καταστροφές στην αρχαιολογία του Αιγαίου” [keynote]
    F. Gaignerot-Driessen, B. Jagou, C. Judson, A. Lattard, and C. Cenzon-Salvayre, “At the dawn of the Cretan cities: Preliminary results of the excavations conducted at Anavlochos, Lasithi (2017-[2020]2022)” [online]
    M. Pomadère, S. Rougier-Blanc, E. Tsakanika, M. Pateraki, and B. Rueff, “A rise in the use of timber in Neopalatial architecture? First results of the TiMMA project at Malia”
    A. Kanta and S. Privitera, “Looking for the First Knossians in the Mesara? A Reappraisal of the Cemetery at Kalyvia Near Phaistos”
    M. Devolder and I. Caloi, “Large-scale levelling operations in the core of the Late Prepalatial settlement at Malia”
    N. Cucuzza, “Discontinuities at Hagia Triada and Kannià in LM IIIA-B”
    I. Mathioudaki and M. Devolder, “Rethinking the genesis of the Neopalatial Palace at Malia. Knossian influence and local input in pottery and architecture”
    C. Knappett, “Resilient urbanism in Bronze Age east Crete: the case of Palaikastro” [online]
    J. Soles, “Greek-American excavations at Mochlos 2021-2022, the discovery of a Minoan waterworks”
    S. Déderix, I. Caloi, and A. Schmitt, “Disuse or deliberate closure? Processes of abandonment in the Pre- and Protopalatial cemetery at Sissi (Zone 9)”
    J. Driessen, “An Archaeology of Change. The nature, role and consequences of destructions at the Kephali at Sissi”
    A. Sanavia, “Stamping pottery in the Mesara plain: notes on a skilled artisanal koinè during the Protopalatial period” [poster]
    S. Antonello, “The ‘Shrines phase’ at Phaistos: a period of renewal in the Final MM IIB phase” [poster]
    F. Toscano and G. Longhitano, “Discontinuities and changes in textile production between the LMIIIC and Archaic period in Crete: Phaistos as a case study” [poster]
    E. Platania and T. Messina, “Evidence of bone marrow exploitation in Pre-palatial Phaistos: the analysis of faunal remains from the North-Eastern Complex” [poster]
    M. Figuera, “Metallurgical Activity in Agia Triada: The Ambiguous Evidence” [poster]
    E. Oddo and V. Fotou, “The history of uses and abandonments at the House of the Frescoes in Knossos”
    Π. Σταματάκη, “Η λειτουργία και ο ρόλος του κτιριακού συγκροτήματος του Βαθυπέτρου Αρχανών στη νεοανακτορική βορειοκεντρική Κρήτη κατά το τέλος της ΥΜΙΒ περιόδου”
    F. Michelaki, “The Cretan tholos cemeteries; continuities and discontinuities during Pre- and Protopalatial periods”
    G. Flouda, “Breaking with past narratives: Apesokari and its place in the Mesara”
    P. P. Betancourt, “Changes in the cave of Eileithyia at Inatos at the end of the Bronze Age”
    F. Blakolmer, “On the move into a new age: Continuity and discontinuity in the development of spiral motifs in Neopalatial Crete”
    Μ. Ρουσάκη, “Η Τοιχογραφία των Χελιδονιών από την Κνωσό. Ανατροπή των παλαιότερων δεδομένων στην ιστορία της τοιχογραφικής τέχνης στο προϊστορικό Αιγαίο”
    Μ. Ανδρεαδάκη-Βλαζάκη, “Κρητομυκηναϊκά ‘ελεφαντουργήματα’ από τη δυτική Κρήτη”
    Ε. Νικολακοπούλου and Δ. Μυλωνά, “Ψάρια στο Μουσείο: Μια διαφορετική προσέγγιση των απεικονίσεων του θαλάσσιου κόσμου στην τέχνη της μινωικής Κρήτης”
    Ε. Νικολιδάκη, “Ανατροπές στον κόσμο των χταποδιών: H Οππιάνεια ανάγνωση ενός μινωικού αγγείου”
    L. Valentinová, “Continuity and discontinuity of Minoan representational convention in the Homeric epics”
    M. Rice, “Colonialism, disruption and dispersal: a study of Minoan artefacts in early British museum collections” [online]
    Β. Σπυροπούλου-Δεβεράκη, “Περί Γραμμικής Α γραφής: Αποκρυπτογράφηση της χρυσής καρφίτσας της Νεοανακτορικής Περιόδου, Μουσείο Aγ. Νικολάου (Αρ. 9675)”
    A. Sacconi, “Les idéogrammes *162+KI et *162+RI dans les tablettes en linéaire B de Cnossos”
    Ά. Καρναβά, “Διοικητικές ασυνέχειες μεταξύ πρώτων και δεύτερων ανακτόρων στην Κρήτη: Η περίπτωση της Κνωσού”
    I. Serpetsidaki and A. Nafplioti, “Absolute scientific dating of early mortuary behaviour in Crete using AMS radiocarbon: the case of the Kiparissi Cave Tomb”
    L. Godart, “Η χρονολόγηση των πινακίδων Γραμμικής Β της Πὐλου”
    L. A. Hitchcock, “Missing or mis-Perceived? Locating the Purloined Ruler in Neopalatial Crete”
    Α. Τσιμόγιαννη and Μ. Τσιποπούλου, “Όσο περισσότερα, τόσο καλύτερα: Στρατηγική, τεχνικές και αποτελέσματα της πλήρους περισυλλογής του χώματος από το μινωικό νεκροταφείο του Πετρά Σητείας”
    R. Dewan, “Disrupting the scale: Miniature pottery in Minoan ritual” [online]
    Ι. Βούρου, “Η αποκατάσταση των προϊστορικών τοιχογραφιών της Κνωσσού και της Θήρας. Από την πρώτη προσέγγιση στην ανατροπή με τη γέννηση της επιστήμης της Συντήρησης”
    Έ. Τσίτσα, Δ. Μακρής, and Γ. Γαλανάκης, “Μεταξύ γλυπτικής και ζωγραφικής: Επανεξετάζοντας τις ανάγλυφες τοιχογραφίες της Κνωσού”
    Δ. Παναγιωτόπουλος, “Τα μινωικά νεκροταφεία και το τέλος της Παλαιοανακτορικής περιόδου”
    A. Sarpaki, “Archaeobotanical insights and dialogue from the Neolithic and a Bronze Age site from Kastelli in Chania Old Town”
    S. Norvell, “Cretan tomb cult: A reappraisal”
    Γ. Ι. Αλεξόπουλος, “Φως στη μινωική ‘δεξαμενή καθαρμών’. Συνέχειες και ασυνέχειες ― υλικές και άυλες παράμετροι της τελετουργικής αρχιτεκτονικής του αδύτου”
    F. Dibble, V. Isaakidou, and D. Mylona, “Upheavals, ruptures, discontinuities in post-Minoan Crete: insights into socio-economic change from the zooarchaeological record”
    T. Terrana and I. Mathioudaki, “Investigating rituals of consumption in changing times: the deposit in the west wing of the Neopalatial Court-Centred Building at Sissi”
    S. C. Ferrence, A. Giumlia-Mai, P. P. Betancourt, and J. D. Muhly, “A revolution in metalworking before the foundation of the Minoan palaces: Special examples from the Petras cemetery”
    S. Kiorpe and M. Tsipopoulou, “Change and continuity in Pre- and Protopalatial funerary practices: the case of Petras cemetery in Sitia, East Crete”
    Δ. Α. Σφακιανάκης, “Ακρορεινή λατρεία σε περιόδους κρίσης: η περίπτωση των πήλινων ανθρωπόμορφων ειδωλίων από το Χαμέζι”
    S. Müller and N. Papakonstantinou, “New investigations into the funerary function of Chrysolakkos”
    Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, Δ. Παναγιωτόπουλος, and Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, “Αποκλίσεις και ασυνέχειες στη μεταχείριση των νεκρών στην προανακτορική Κρήτη: Η περίπτωση του θολωτού τάφου Β στην Κουμάσα Αστερουσίων”
    Ε. Γαλλή, “Η ανατροπή πριν την παράδοση. Οι λάρνακες στο πρωτομινωικό ταφικό σπήλαιο Πύργου”
    Ι. Παππάς and Λ. Βοκοτόπουλος, “‘τον δε τροχόν γαίας τε καμίνου τʼ έκγονον εύρε…’ Το κεραμικό εργαστήριο στο Κόκκινο Φρούδι Ζάκρου”
    G. Doudalis, “Potters in transition: Evolutions and changes in Mochlos ceramics from Middle Minoan IIA to Late Minoan IA”
    R. Dubois, “Diacritical consumption and social organization in MM IIB Crete: a ceramic approach”
    C. Langohr, “Population movements in Crete in Late Minoan IIIB advanced? Evidence for discontinuities in the ceramic repertoire at Sissi and its region” [online]
    K. Christakis, C. Galanaki, and E. Apostolaki, “Protopalatial Agriana: patterns of discontinuities in pottery production and consumption”
    M. Velegraki, “The MM IIIA pottery assemblage from Building 2 at Knossos, Gypsades: a contextual analysis” [online]
    C. Sturge, “Disruptive dining – Late Minoan II – IIIA:1 fine tableware at Knossos, a metrical and volumetric perspective” [online]
    A. Tzigounaki and P. Vlachou, “On continuity and change: A preliminary techno-morphological assessment of MMIII-LMI pottery from Kalo Chorafi, Mylopotamos, North Central Crete”
    E. Tsafou, “Function and use of Minoan cooking vessels: between traditions and changes”
    Ε. Παπαδοπούλου, “Τα χρόνια της κρίσης: Συνέχειες και ασυνέχειες στη δυτική Κρήτη γύρω στο 1200 π.Χ.”
    R. B. Koehl, “The stone wig from Knossos reidentified”
    U. Günkel-Maschek, “They who withstand all crisis and upheaval: A new look at men in ‘hide-skirts’, MM IIIB to LM IIIA2” [online]
    D. Wolf, “Late Minoan soft stone seals: a window on social change?”
    Ε. Κατάκη, Μ. Ανδρεαδάκη-Βλαζάκη, P. McGeorge, Σ. Πρέβε, and Ε. Πρωτοπαπαδάκη, “Βίαιοι θάνατοι στη μινωική Κρήτη του 13ου αιώνα π.Χ.”
    V. Şahoğlu and B. N. Goodman-Tchernov, “Tsunamis, volcanic ashes and a victim of the Late Bronze Age Thera eruption discovered at Çeşme – Bağlararası (Turkey)”
    L. Alvarez, “Bronze mirrors in Central Mediterranean during the Final Bronze Age: Τrans-mediterranean exchange of goods, men or ideas?” [online]
    A. Nafplioti, D.-E. Michael, L. Fibiger, and B. Molloy, “Population biological distance, connectivity and interaction in Bronze Age and Protogeometric Crete: integrated biological and material culture approaches”
    S. Spanos, “Relations between Koukounaries in Paros and Crete during the Late Helladic III/ Late Minoan III period”
    E. Tour, “Coded in clay: An investigation into the origins of the Linear B administrative devices through the application of phylogenetic theory” [online]
    Η. Λιακόπουλος, “Έξι σημαντικά σπήλαια αρχαιολογικού ενδιαφέροντος της Π.Ε. Λασιθίου. Παρουσίαση των πρώτων συμπερασμάτων”
    S. Kiorpe, “Health and disease in the LMIIIA-B period: A case study from the Kentri chamber tomb in Ierapetra, Crete”
    Κ. Κόπακα, Μ. Κλάδου, and Α. Κουκουράκη, “Η Ντία ανάμεσα στην Κρήτη και το βoρειότερο Αιγαίο. Μινωικά πολιτισμικά στοιχεία στο νησί κατά τη Μέση Εποχή του Χαλκού”
    C. Henkel, J. J. García-Granero, and A. Karetsou, “Detecting the invisible: new phytolith evidence for the use of plant-based artefact(s) at the Minoan peak sanctuary on Mt. Juktas”
    G. Carlos and I. Michelakakis, “A new light on the ‘Hall of the Double Axes?’”
    Χ. Κονταξή, Α. Καζνέση, and Ε. Στραβοπόδη, “Σπήλαιο Της του Θεού Σοφίας Κατσοματάδω Χανίων: Διερευνώντας τον χαρακτήρα μιας προϊστορικής εγκατάστασης στη δυτική Κρήτη”
    B. Demarchi, M. Codlin, M. Fontana, S. Grossano, P. Iunco, K. Papayianni, and L. Yeomans, “Ancient protein analysis of the avifauna from the Greek-Swedish-Danish Excavations at Chania”
    K. Pateraki, “The pioneering women archaeologists in 20th century Crete [online]”

     

    ARCH_RNT 7

    On 6-8 October 2022 the 7th Symposium Archaeological Research & New Technologies (ARCH_RNT) will be held in Kalamata, Greece. Further information is available at http://www.laboratoryarchaeometry.gr/7th-arch_rnt.html. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    G. Malaperdas, A. Sarris, and N. Zacharias, “Communication networks in archaeology. The case of the Mycenaean Messenia”
    N. Nerantzis and S. Papadopoulos, “Tools and jewels: An analytical study of copper-alloy artefacts from Bronze Age Thassos”
    S. Sarialtun, E. Fidan, and S. Ağaç, “Classification of Neolithic pottery clay from Bahçelievler in the northwest Anatolia”
    V. Muros, N. Zacharias, and J. Henderson, “Compositional and provenance of Late Bronze Age glass from Kefalonia, Greece”
    K. D. Demadis, I. E. Grammatikakis, and E. Armakola, “Novel, multifunctional consolidants for the mitigation of gypsum stone deterioration at the Knossos Palace, Crete, Greece”
    A. Aidonis, D. Tzetzis, C. Achillas, A. Athanasiou, A. Darlas, and C. Papageorgopoulou, “Digital 3D facial approximation of the Petralona skull. Methodological issue and applications”
    D. C. M. Brown, “Early signs of Mycenaean craftsmen’s innovation or initiative: The results of a geometric morphometric analysis of the shaft grave bronze swords of Mycenae”
    A. Panagopoulou, A. G. Karydas, E. Banou, and N. Zacharias, “Chemical analysis of bronze votives from the Minoan peak sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno, Kythera”
    B. Lis, H. Mommsen, and J. H. Sterba, “Imported pottery at the cemetery of Perati in light of current results of Neutron Activation analysis”
    I. Worrall, J. Henderson, A. Meek, and T. Kiely, “Inclusions in Late Bronze Age glass from Ialysos, Rhodes: Evidence for the use of a third primary glass raw material”
    O. Palli, I. Nazlis, S. Andreou, S. Triantafyllou, and G. Kourtessi-Philippakis, “Micro-residues on quartz tools: The example of Bronze Age Toumba, Thessaloniki”
    K. Theodorakopoulou, F. Mavridis, A. Papadea, M. Perraki, G. Polymeris, N. Zacharias, E. Palamara, and C. D. Athanassas, “Provenance studies of stone tools from the Mesolithic Kouvaras cave in Attica”
    I. Karatasios, A. Michalopoulou, E. Katsaveli, V. Kilikoglou, E. Politaki, and E. Kavoulaki, “Design parameters and criteria for the conservation mortars of the ‘Hall of the Double Axes’ (‘King’s Megaron’) at the Minoan Palace of Knossos”

     

    Διήμερο Ναυτικής Αρχαιολογίας

    On 8-9 October 2022 a Διήμερο Ναυτικής Αρχαιολογίας will be held in Xylokastro, Corinthia. Further information is available at https://www.anagnostis.org/2022/09/28/xylokastro-prosklisi-sto-diimero-naftikis-archaiologias/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    Χ. Γκοβότσος, “Πειραματική Ναυτική Αρχαιολογία για τη μορφή και τις δυνατότητες πλεύσης των πλοίων της Εποχής του Χαλκού”
    Δ. Καμαρινού, “Η ‘σχεδία’ του Οδυσσέα: ένας ομηρικός οδηγός ναυπήγησης μυκηναϊκού πλοίου υπό το πρίσμα της Ναυτικής Αρχαιολογίας”
    Ε. Μαραγκουδάκη, “Η εργαλειοθήκη ενός μυκηναίου ναοδόμου. Εργαλεία και χρήσεις τους”

     

    ASOR 2022

    On 19-23 October 2022 and 16-19 November 2022 the American Society of Overseas Research Annual Meetings (ASOR 2022) will be held online and in Boston, respectively. Further information is available at http://www.asor.org/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
    L. Tapinos, “Minoan Heterotopia Abroad: A Contextual Interpretation of the Meaning and Function of Aegean-style Wall Painting in the Levant during the Middle Bronze Age” [virtual]
    L. Pisanu, “A Seal from the East: Investigating the Overseas Interconnections between Cyprus and Sardinia over the Late Bronze Age” [virtual]
    B. A. Clark, “Non-Ceramic Cypriot Imports in the Southern Levant” [virtual and in-person]
    J. A. Verduci, “Minoan ‘Warrior Graves’: Military Identity, Cultural Interactions, and the Art of Personal Adornment” [virtual and in-person]
    A. Donald, “Such Tiny Things: Materiality of cylinder seals in Late Bronze Age Cyprus” [virtual]
    T. Manolova, “The Ancient Mediterranean Digital Project: An Open-access Database on Ancient Ships” [virtual and in-person]
    L. Crewe, “Recent excavations at Bronze Age Kissonerga-Skalia” [in-person]
    K. Grossman, T. Paulette, L. Graham, and A. McCarthy, “Excavations at Makounta-Voules-Mersinoudia: Results from the 2022 Season” [in-person]
    D. M. Alberghina, “The ‘Thin Red Line’ between Craft and Technology: Knowledge, Experience, and Adaptation in LBA Western Anatolian Metal Industries” [in-person]
    A. H. Simmons, “The Woke Hippos of Cyprus: How a Species Can be Cancelled” [in-person]
    M. Harris-Schober, “The Mystery of ‘Shrine 22’: A Philistine Ritual Space from Early Iron Age” [in-person]
    A. M. Maeir, “Philistia, the Philistines, and Shishak/Sheshonq” [in-person]
    J. R Chadwick, “A Giant Iron Age I City: The Iron I Fortification System at Tell es-Safi/Gath of the Philistines” [in-person]
    P. W Stockhammer, M. Feldman, S. Eisenmann, E. Skourtanioti, H. Kühne, M. Schultz, B. Tessmann, H. Ringbauer, C. Jeong, and J. Krause, “New Archaeogenetic Insights into Population Dynamics in Syria, Lebanon and Cyprus during the 1st millennium BCE” [in-person]
    E. F. Maher, “Philistine Rural Temple Economy: The Early Iron Age Fauna from Nahal Patish” [in-person]
    E. Margaritis, K. Tsirtsi, and C. Henkel, “2nd Millennium Agriculture in Cyprus: New Evidence from the Sites of Pyla, Agios Sozomenos- Ambelia” [in-person]
    J. L Kramer, “The Chariot Drivers of Troy: The Workers of the Cincinnati Troy Expedition” [in-person]

     

    ScapeCon 2022

    On 24-27 November 2022 the 5th international postgraduate and early career scholars’ conference in Aegean archaeology ScapeCon 2022. No (e)scape from bits and pieces: Towards an archaeology of fragmentation in the Aegean Bronze Age — · People · Material Culture · Data will be held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Further information is available at https://scapecon.minoan-aegis.net/. The program will be:
    Y. Chatzikonstantinou, “The perception of ‘cremation’ in the Prepalatial tholos tombs in Crete: an osteoarchaeological perspective”
    N. Papakonstantinou, “‘Till death/tomb tear us in parts’. Bodily fragmentation in the Mycenaean cemetery at Kolikrep-Spata, Attica”
    D. Vendramin, “Broken in two halves. Addressing evidence for Moiety organization in the fragmented landscape of Prepalatial Crete”
    T. Panagiotopoulou, “And if this is what we’ve got/then what we’ve got is not gold: the case of fragmentary information about the Minoan ruler’s identity, theoretical aspects of stable isotope analysis for diet reconstruction”
    E. Paizi, “Composite bodies in fragmented societies: reassessing LH IIIC representations of eastern divinities at Perati”
    J. Cano-Moreno, “From mise-en-scène to mise-en-abyme in Neopalatial seals: between the depiction and the socio-political dynamics”
    S. T. Andreovits, “Miniature bodies in fragments: the micrographic body fragmentation on Aegean Bronze Age seal images”
    S. Triantaphyllou, Session Keynote Lecture. Theme 1: People
    E. Oddo, Inaugural Keynote Lecture
    J. Binnberg, “Fragmentation in Minoan art”
    P. Ramirez Valiente, “Figurines and fragments from Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete: special deposits with deliberate breakage”
    M. Bowers, “Reconstructing the textile culture of the Postpalatial Aegean”
    P. Kapsali, “Grounding, fragmentation and collective experience in the EBA mainland Greece”
    E. Chreiazomenou, “Fragmentation of edge tools. A redesigning practice on Neolithic and Bronze Age Gavdos”
    A. Vratsalis-Pantelaios, “Worth made of bits and pieces. A suggestive approach to the formation of value in the Bronze Age Aegean”
    D.-G. Aquini, “Untangling the mass. Golden ‘wires’ from the Platanos Tholos A”
    E. Tsafou and R. Dubois, “From fragmented evidence to the identification of kitchens and cooking practices. A diachronic approach from Minoan Crete”
    G. Paglione, “Tales from a broken archive: craft production and organization of labor at Mycenae at the end of the Late Bronze Age”
    E. Gkika, “The biography of fragmentary architecture: The cyclopean walls of Mycenaean Corinthia”
    C. Murphy, Session Keynote Lecture. Theme 2: Material culture
    S. Collard, “The assessment of the preservation methods taken at the Knossos archaeological site thanks to a value system”
    T. Claeys, “Stories of a fragmented past: an appraisal of site presentation strategies on Minoan Crete”
    A. M. Vergaki, “‘Lustral basins’ revisited: negating an old doctrine”
    S. Aulsebrook, “‘Messy finds”: using fragments to plug holes in the Mycenaean mortuary record”
    E. L. Hertel, “Mixed sources, fragmented evidence. Re-evaluating the evidence of the ancient Egyptian ritual of ‘Breaking the Red Vessels’”
    K. Tsirtsi and E. Margaritis, “Biography of fragmented plant remains”
    V. Georgiopoulou, “Fragmented images of the Minoan multitude: approaching the perception of the miniature frescoes at Knossos”
    I. Högner, “More than secondary. Thoughts on fragmented material in Mycenaean chamber tombs from Elateia, Central Greece”
    M. Łapińska, “Typology and overview of the lily motif in Aegean jewellery”
    D. Wolf, “Do not despair – Repair! Sealing the gap on a Final Palatial lentoid”
    C. Papadopoulos, Session Keynote Lecture. Theme 3: Data

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