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

UISPP 2023

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

YRA 2023

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

INSTAP Publication Team Grants

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

Tytus Scholars and Cincinnati Summer Residency Programs

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

EAA 2023

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

ScapeCon 6

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

2nd Symposium on the Archaeology of Western Anatolia

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

Trade Routes and Seafaring in the Ancient Near East

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

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

The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Kydonia/Khania

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

YRA 2023

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

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

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

SAA 2024

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

Abundance and Scarcity in the Ancient Mediterranean World

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

The Connected Past 2023

On 16 April 2023 abstracts (300 words maximum) are due for The Connected Past: Digital Methods for Studying Networks and Complexity in the Humanities (The Connected Past 2023), to be held on 12-15 September 2023 in Helsinki. Further information and the link to submit abstracts are available at https://connectedpast.net/other-events/helsinki-2023/. Contributions may include, but are not limited to:
• New digital methods or tools for studying historical, archaeological, or lexical datasets
• Modelling – spatial, statistical, material datasets
• Geospatial analysis, methods, and applications
• Exploring trade routes, mobility, interaction, migration of people, things, and ideas
• Integration of spatial and material datasets
• Diachronic, multi-scalar analyses using digital methods
• Traditional SNA applied to historical datasets
• Agent Based Modelling (ABM)
• Digital materiality
• Text mining and analysis
• Novel visualization methods and analysis of datasets
• Digital methods and community archaeology/heritage management in the Middle East
• ANE imperial dynamics and social networks

Kiel Conference 2023

On 13-18 March 2023 the Kiel Conference 2023: Scales of Social, Environmental & Cultural Change in Past Societies was held in Kiel. Further information is available at https://www.kielconference.uni-kiel.de/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:
S. Sabatini, “Consideration about the role of Nuragic Sardinia in the European Late Bronze Age metal trade”
L. Burkhardt, “The Ada Tepe gold mine (LBA) in the context of resources, exchange networks and social (in)equality”
S. Menelaou, “Mobility dynamics and socio-technological changes in the mid-late 3rd millennium BC circum-Aegean: reviewing the ceramic evidence”
P. Suchowska-Ducke, “The bronze cup from Dohnsen as evidence of social and physical networks”
M. Brandl, C. Hauzenberger, and P. Filzmoser, “Testing craft specialisation in Neolithic chert economy: A case study from western Anatolia”
K. Kotsakis, T. Giagkoulis, A. Maczkowski, J. Francuz, and A. Hafner, “Dispilio, Lake Orestias (Kastoria, Greece): new insights into the chronology and architecture of a Neolithic wetland habitation”
S. Perrakis, “Water Management Strategies in Prehistorical Crete: The Case Study of the Zakros region”
J. Stühler, “Modularity in Late Helladic Architecture: The Case of the Corridor Houses”
S. Schaefer-Di Maida, J. Laabs, M. Wunderlich, R. Hofmann, H. Piezonka, P.-A. Kreuz, S. Sabnis, J. P. Brozio, C. Dickie, and M. Furholt, “Scales of political practice and patterns of power relations in Prehistory”
X. Jia, E. Skourtanioti, L. Bejko, I. Pojani, H. Ringbauer, J. Krause, and P. W. Stockhammer, “Archaeogenomic pilot research of Kamenice, a prehistoric Albanian tumulus (1600-500 BCE)”
A. Bogaard, “Farming and early urbanism in Europe: the interplay of sociality, ecology and uncertainty”
E. Weiberg and M. Finné, “Land use expansion in Late Bronze Age Greece – a success story?”
M. Hostettler, “Exploring changes in land use and human impact in the prehistoric Southern Balkans and Northern Greece”
S. Dannemann, P. Avramidis, A. Emmanouilidis, J.-M. Henke, C. Piechocki, and I. Unkel, “First results: Suitability of the Chora Plain on Samos (Greece) for ancient agriculture”

SIZWG 2023

On 22-25 March 2023 a conference entitled Beyond the baseline: Broadening stable isotopic horizons in zooarchaeology was held by the ICAZ Stable Isotopes in Zooarchaeology Working Group (SIZWG) in Berlin. Further information is available at https://zooarchisotopes.com/sizwg-22nd-to-25th-march-2023-berlin/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
B. Irvine, R. Özbal, C. Luke, C. H. Roosevelt, C. Çakırlar, and F. Pirson, “Investigating Palaeoenvironment and Animal Management in Western Anatolia from the Neolithic to the Roman Period Utilising Stable Isotopes of Carbon and Nitrogen”
R. Özbal, S. Emra, S. Kamjan, E. Özdoğan, and N. Benecke, “Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope results for faunal samples from Aşaği Pinar”
C. Çakırlar, T. Brongers, and S. Pilaar Birch, “Neolithic herd management and foraging ecologies of wild fauna in Istanbul around 8.2k BP”

GAO 2023

On 27-29 March 2023 the annual Graduate Archaeology at Oxford Conference (GAO 2023) was held in Oxford. Further information is available at https://gao2023conference.mystrikingly.com/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
A. Falezza, “Mediterranean ports of interactions: Aegean and Southern Italy in the Late Bronze Age”
A. Holguin, M. Charles, and A. Bogaard, “Life on the lakeshore: the plant food-systems of the Late Neolithic in the southern Balkans”

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/.

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/.

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”

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