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WAC-10

On 31 October 2024 proposals of themes (4-6 sessions) are due for the 10th World Archaeological Congress (WAC-10), to be held in Darwin, Australia on 22-28 June 2025. On 31 January 2025, proposals for sessions (4-6 or 8-10 papers; 300 words maximum) will be due; on 30 April 2025 proposals for papers (200 words), posters, or displays will be due. Proposals for workshops are now open. Further information is available at https://worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/.

Kiel Conference 2025:

On 31 October 2024 abstracts (200 words) are due papers and posters for the seventh Kiel Conference 2025: Scales of Social, Environmental and Cultural Change in Past Societies, to be held at Kiel University on 24-29 March 2025. Further information is available at https://www.kielconference.uni-kiel.de/.

EAA AM 2024

On 28-31 August 2024 the 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA AM 2024) was held in Rome. Further information is available at https://www.e-a-a.org/eaa2024. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
N. Mac Sweeney, “The Making of a Mediterranean Network: The Retrospective Ethnogenesis of the Greeks”
C. Pearson, “Another radiocarbon revolution? Uses of single tree-ring 14C in improving radiocarbon calibration and anchoring chronological frameworks”
S. Bell, “Burial in the Ruins of the Late Minoan IIIC Settlement of Vronda: Comprehending and Constructing the Past, Present and Future”
P. Zeman and B. Lis, “Another Look at Mycenaean Dimini: Alternative Centralisation in Late Bronze Age Coastal Thessaly”
A. Brysbaert, “Persisting Through Change. Social Identities and Space in Bronze Age Aegean Crafting”
G. Van Wijngaarden, “Archaeology of Archaeology at Ancient Troy: The Amsterdam Troy Project (2018-2022)”
T. Lanjouw, A. Walsh, and J. Waagen, “The Contribution of State-of-the-Art Technology to the Archaeology of Archaeology Approach: A Case Study at Troy”
J. Kramer, “(Re)Constructed Pots at Troy: The Local Pottery Menders from the University of Cincinnati Expedition to the Troad”
S. Hilker, “Building on Blegen: Legacy Data from Mycenaean Zygouries”
P. Tripodi, “Tracing Middle Bronze Age Dagger Biographies in Mainland Greece, Crete, and Cyprus”
G. Muti, “Unravelling a Splendid Web. Aegean-Styled Discoid Loom Weights in the Eastern Mediterranean and Their Role in the LBA Maritime Exchanges”
M. Bowers, “Interweaving Tradition and Innovation: The Textile Culture of the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age Aegean”
A. Barouda, P. Quinn, and N. Efstratiou, “Exploring Plaster Technologies in Neolithic Makri, Northern Greece: An Insightful Perspective”
T. Andreovits, “Digital Miniatures: Prospects and Limitations of 3D Documentation of Bronze Age Aegean Seal Images”
J. Hilditch, “From The ‘Nitty-Gritty’ of Ceramic Analysis to a Community of Practice Perspective: A View from the Bronze Age Aegean”
V. Orfanou, K. Aktipi, A. Batziou, E. Borgna, O. Jones, C. Kleitsas, K. Konstanti, I. Lemos, P. Degryse, and P. Stockhammer, “Metals in a Changing World: Material Insights into Social Transformations at the End of the Bronze Age in Greece”
J. Albanese, “Warrior Burials and Other Myths from the Late Bronze Age in Greece”
V. Nicolini, F. Montinaro, S. Aneli, S. Sasso, T. Saupe, R. Guglielmino, G. Vincenti, P. F. Fabbri, and L. Pagani, “Ancient Genomes from A Roca Vecchia, Apulia, Shed Light on Minoan Modes of Colonisation”
L. Giorgi, A. Greco, and S. Lopez, “Potentiality of RTI and HDR on Bronze Age Phaistos ‘Writing’ Systems: The pa-i-to/Phaistos Epigraphic Project”
O. Boitte, R. Vargiolu, Roberto, J. Vosges, and H. Procopiou, “Exploring Mycenaean Knappers’ Toolkits”
P. Elefanti, G. Marshall, and E. Yiannouli, “Neanderthal Occupation of the Ionian Island of Kephalonia, Western Greece. Preliminary Results of the Ashore Project”
F. d’Ambola, “Trojan Wanderers Between East and West: Approaching Sacred Landscapes in Northern Epirus”
Y. Saito, “Sensing Illuminated Olympos Over Time and Space, Along with Its Transformed Religious Aspects in Homer”
E. Tsafou, E. Alberti, B. Lis, J. Morrison, “Aegean Cooking Sets and Cooking Traditions – A Combined Comparative Approach”
I. Sandei, “Combining Use-Wear Analysis and Experimental Archaeology. A Focus on Cooking Wares from Middle Bronze Age Phaistos (Crete)”
A. Kalara, “Cooking and Consumption Practices on Minoan Peak Sanctuaries: The Case of Pantotinou Koryfi and Stavromenos Anatoli, Ierapetra, Southeastern Crete”
J. Morrison and E. Tsafou, “Using Minoan Cooking Pots: Experimental Cooking and Organic Residue Analysis”
M. E. Alberti, “Comparing Bronze Age Cooking Sets from Crete and Sardinia”
B. Casa, V. Vassallo, R. Orabi, S. Hermon, and P. Fischer, “Recording Commingled Archaeological Human Skeletal Remains Using LiDAR: A Case Study from Late Bronze Age Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus”
A. Vrettou, “Approaching the Coast(S): Cross-Cultural Interactions Between Cyclades and Crete During the Early Bronze Age”
A. Gonzalez San Martin, “Working the Landscapes: Connecting Community and Labour in Bronze Age Cyprus”
C. Marangou, “Unusual or Different Neolithic Images: Allusions to Material or Social Facts and Phenomena?”
M. Mina, “More Than Meets the Eye: Somatoperception Through Neolithic Figurines”
S. Kiorpe, “Human Remains Outside Funerary Contexts in Bronze Age Crete”
A. Yasur-Landau, “Irresistible Analogies and Universal Adaptors: Negotiating Unfamiliar Landscapes and Maritime Intercultural Contact in the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean”
E. Fuller, “Desolate Shores: Late Bronze Age Aegean Harbours as Heterotopias”
L. Hulin, “Unity and Diversity in the Maritime Cultural World of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean”
L. Hitchcock, “Pirate Ships as Heterotopic Spaces: Transforming Dystopian-Scapes in the 12th Century BCE”
I. Voskos, D. Kloukinas, and A. Georgotas, “From Curvilinear to Rectilinear: Architectural Transformations in 4th-3rd Millennia Cal. BC Cyprus and Their Social Implications”
M. Devolder and I. Caloi, “Making Space for the Community in Late 3rd Millennium Malia (Crete)”
G. Vavouranakis, “Urbanisation and Connectivity in the Prehistoric Aegean: A Bottom-Up Approach”
C. Theotokatou, “‘In the Beginning Was Chaos’: Investigating the Organization and Social Significance of Space in Late Cypriot Domestic Units”
M. Amadio and M. Devolder, “Urbanisation in Process: Formal, Technical and Cultural Features of Ashlar Architecture in Late Bronze Age Cyprus”
N. Nikolova, “The Early Neolithic Ditches in the Balkans: What Do We Know So Far?”
M. Kulow, “Early Neolithic Ditches in South-Western Bulgaria: Their Concept and Peculiarities”
K. Bacvarov, “Enclosing Early Farming Villages in the Eastern Balkans: Determinants, Strategic Choices, and Social Implications”
K. Boyadzhiev and Y. Boyadzhiev, “Ditch Features at The Late Neolithic – Early Chalcolithic Settlement Near Bata, Panagyurishte Municipality, Southern Bulgaria”
G. Katsarov, N. Nikolova, A. Tsurev, and K. Bacvarov, “The Copper Age Enclosures at Stamboliyski in Bulgarian Thrace: From Ditch Digging to Deposition and Infilling”
P. Minkov, “‘Rolling in the Deep’: Small Clay Artifacts from Early and Middle Bronze Age Ditches in Bulgaria”
F. Porta and A. Sotgia, “Cultivating Complexity: Unveiling Bronze Age Communities Through Resource Storage’s Dynamics. The Case Study of Pyla-Kokkinokremos (Cyprus)”
A. Mercogliano, M. Gazis, A. Spiroulias, K. Filis, A. Hein, and P. Day, “Incised Pottery of the EH III – MH I North-Western Peloponnese: Regional Insights into the Cetina Phenomenon”
S. Menelaou, “Prehistoric Seaborne Connections and Mobility Dynamics in the Eastern Aegean Region: Insights from Ceramic Analysis”
G. Ferentinos, L. Karali, M. Gkioni, and P. Stefanopoulos, “The Role of the Aegina Bronze Age Harbour in the Minoan and Mycenaean Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean”
N. Naiboglu and E. Fidan, “Island Architecture on Land: The Question of Early Bronze Age Insulae in Tavşanlı Höyük (Inland Western Anatolia)”
N. N. Köknar, “Riverscape Geography and Settlement Clusters in Western Anatolia During the Late Bronze Age”
Y. De Raaff, “From Household to Community: The Energetics of the Construction of Ambitious Buildings in Early Mycenaean Greece”
V. Georgiopoulou, “Painting Under the Shadow of a Palace: The Case of the House of the Frescoes at Knossos, Crete”
Y. Emmez and A. M. Büyükkarakaya, “Exploring Mortuary Practices During Neolithic Period in Tepecik-Çiftlik Höyük”
D. Koptekin, G. Umurtak, R. Duru, E. Fidan, Erkan Ö. Çevik, B. Erdoğu, T. Korkut, A.-S. Malaspinas, and A. Gütherström, “Ancient DNA Teams, and METU/Hacettepe, “Genomic Insights into the Emergence of Neolithic Villages in Western Anatolia”
K. Zeman-Wisniewska, L. Recht, and M. Wiśniewski, “Erimi-Pitharka Archaeological Project: Application of Digital Technologies”
P. Pavuk, T. Krapf, F. Iacono, and L. Bernardo Ciddio, “On the Way North, West, and East: Aegean Matt-Painted Wares in the Early Late Bronze Age”
E. Vliora and E. Kiriatzi, “Moving Around the Tell Settlements of Central Macedonia, Greece: The Case of Late Bronze Age Matt Painted Pottery”
T. Krapf and E. Agolli, “Between Regional Confinement and Cultural Transmission: Stylistic Attributes of Matt-Painted Pottery in Southern Albania and Adjacent Areas”
O. C. Aslaksen, “A PXRF Study of Bronze- and Early Iron Age Matt-Painted Pottery from Albania, Epirus and Central Greece”
C. Haywood, “The Early Iron Age Matt-Painted Pottery of the Ionian Islands: Some Preliminary Remarks”
E. Angeli, “Conceptual Metaphor Theory in Archaeology: Seeking Metaphors and Symbols on Painted Pottery from Middle Neolithic Central Greece”
A. Stroulia, T. Bekiaris, V. Melfos, and C. Stergiou, “Celt Production Processes and Loci in Neolithic Greece: The Case of the Thracian Site of Makri”
A. Vinet, “Addressing Social Behavior in Neolithic Anatolia Through Technofunctional Study of Chipped Stone Tools”
T. Bekiaris, “Echoes from the Cave: Exploring the Life-Histories of Macrolithic Artifacts from Late Neolithic Drakaina Cave, Kephalonia Island, Western Greece”
I. Moutafi and S. Voutsaki, “A Close Embrace: A Unique Double Burial from the Early Mycenaean Ayios Vasileios North Cemetery, Laconia, Greece”
R. Pierini, “Olive Crops in Late Bronze Age Crete: Biodiversity and Textual Sources”
A. Mara, “Between the Sea and Land: Regional Narratives Encapsulating Northern Albanian Archaeology During the Early and Middle Bronze Age”
M. Pieniazek, “The Treasures from Troy – A New Look at an Old Story”
D. Kloukinas, “Earthen Architecture, Environment and Taskscapes in Neolithic Northwestern Greece”
L. Bombardieri, M. Amadio, S. Ghislandi, and I. Rellini, “Earthen Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean Between Archaeology and Sustainability (EARTHERITAGE Project)”
T. Strasser, “Environmental Impact on Pleistocene Crete: Faunal Turnover and Resources in an Island Ecosystem”
R. Timonen, “Unveiling Sustainable Farming Strategies in the Late Bronze Age Argive Plain, Greece: A Critique and Application of Carrying Capacity Analysis”
T. Kinnaird, A. Dakouri-Hild, S. Davis, and E. Andrikou, “Living off/with the Landscape in the Hinterlands of Athens: Insights from the Kotroni Archaeological Survey Project (KASP) at Ancient Aphidna”
S. Triantaphyllou, “Identifying Death in LBA Northern Greece: A Dialogue Between the Human Remains and the Funerary Practices”
N. Herrmann, K. Cruz, T. Van Damme, A. Gaggioli, B. Burke, and B. Burns, “The Assessment of Mortuary Activities and Burial Interactions from the Blue Stone Structure at Eleon, Greece”
T. Tsempera, T. Theodoropoulou, D. Filioglou, P. Stockhammer, A. Mittnik, A. Balitsari, S. Dederix, and N. Papadimitriou, “Multiple Infant Burials at Early Mycenaean Thorikos, SE Attica”
I. Hoegner, “Understanding Mycenaean LH III Secondary Activities in Chamber Tombs: Results of the Interdisciplinary Study of the Elateia-Alonaki Necropolis”
E. Borgna, G. de Angeli, S. Freilich, I Högner, and P. Stockhammer, “The Mycenaean Cemetery of the Trapeza: Individual Histories from a Long-Term Funerary Landscape”
S. Voutsaki, I. Moutafi, P. Tritsaroli, E. Vika, and P. Erdil, “The Early Mycenaean Ayios Vasileios North Cemetery, Southern Greece: Integrating Archaeological Theory and Archaeological Science”
L. Kvapil, K. Shelton, and G. Price, “The Changing Power of the Past at the Late Bronze Age Cemetery of Aidonia, Greece”
S. Cushman, “Precocious Prosymna: Middle Helladic III/Late Helladic I Tomb Deposits in Archaeological and Archival Context”
R. Phillips, “Deposition, Disarticulation, Destruction: The Parallel Treatment of Bodies and Objects in Early Mycenaean Burials”
N. Papakonstantinou, “Mortuary Practices in Mycenaean Attica: An Integrated Analysis of Human Remains from the Chamber Tomb Cemetery at Kolikrepi-Spata, Greece”
M. Tsipopoulou, We vs Them: Funerary Competitions at the Protopalatial Necropolis of Petras, Siteia - Crete
F. Nani, “From Dusty Notes to 3D-Modelling: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Reconstructing the Burial Landscape at the Koan Mycenaean Cemetery of Langada”
P. Fischer, “The Tombs of the Cosmopolitan Late Bronze Age City of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus”
A. Maeir, “Iron Age Tombs at Tell Es-Safi/Gath: New Finds and New Analyses”
M. Relaki, “Dying to Make a Difference. Questioning Funerary Practices as Markers of Ethnicity”
F. Frankovic, “Not Another Paper on Mycenaeans! Replacing Ethnic with Other Group Identities in the 2nd Millennium BCE East Aegean-West Anatolian Region”
E. Trinder, “The Dead Deserve a Proper Burial: The Quest for the Ethnicity of Bronze and Iron Age Burial Mounds in Albania”
S. Vakirtzi, “Recording Textile Tools’ Contexts? Cases from Aegean Prehistory”
K. Sarri, “Grey Areas in the Identification and Recording of Textile Tools. Some Enigmatic Cases from Aegean Prehistory”
T. Boloti, “Net Sinkers or Loom Weights? Perforated Sherds from the Prehistoric Settlement on Koukonisi, Lemnos as a Study Case”
R. Worsham and Y. de Raaff, “Early Mycenaean Fortification and Community Building at Malthi, Greece”
F. Carbotti, “Between Mountains and Sea. Preliminary Data from the Survey of Three Protohistoric Fortified Settlements in Southern Albania”
E. Voulgari, M. Sofronidou, and K. Kotsakis, “The Dynamics of Storage Vessels and Storage: The Case of Neolithic Dispilio, North Greece”
M. Truffi, F. Nomi, G. Saltini Semerari, and A. Guidi, “Once Upon a… Hut. ‘Sacred (?) Huts’ Below Temples: Comparisons Between Italy and Greece in the Iron Age”
A. Pierattini, “Identifying Early Greek Temples. Problems of Method and Definition”
N. Mac Sweeney, “Migration and the Making of the Greek World: The Work of the MIGMAG Project”
I. Chatzikonstantinou, S. Chronaki, K. Fülöp, D. Kadi, E. Stamataki, V. Papathanasiou, E. Kiriatzi, C. Snoeck, and S. Triantaphyllou, “The Aegean Sparks: Interdisciplinary Exploration of Fire Use in Experimental and Prehistoric Archaeological Contexts Containing Skeletal Remains”
V. Papathanasiou, S. Triantaphyllou, A. Lioutas, and V. Misailidou-Despotidou, “Managing Fire and Bones: Osteoarchaeological Evidence from Early Iron Age Central Macedonia, Greece”
I. Mathioudaki, “Staying In-Between: Ceramic Perspectives on Style Based on the Study of Minoan Pottery”
K. Shelton and L. Kvapil, “Positioning Pottery Between Producer and Consumer at the Late Bronze Age Workshop of Petsas House, Mycenae, Greece”
P. Kapsali, “Ceramic Media, Change and Activity (Re)Arrangements: Investigating Serving and Consumption Vessels from Early Helladic Settlements”
E. Oddo, “A View from the Tall Grass: The Place of Reed Decoration in the LM IA Ceramic Repertoire in Crete”
L. Recht, M. Yamasaki, B. Clark, and K. Zeman-Wisniewska, “Late Cypriot ‘Bathtubs’: A Case Study from Erimi-Pitharka”
V. Vlachou, “Ceramic Stylistic Diversity in Early Greece: Exclusive Style(s) and Ritual Containers”
F. Meneghetti, “Browsing Legacy Material: The Case of the Archives of the French Mission at Enkomi (Cyprus)”
F. M. C. Toscano, “Weaving Relationships: Exploring Connections in the Messarà Plain Beyond the Dark Ages”
V. Klontza-Jaklova, “Horse as a Historical and Archaeological Source, and as a Cultural Monument. Case Study: Cretan Horse.”
C. De Souza, “The Art of Horsemanship Riding in Geometric Greece: The Relationship Between Horse and Rider in Iconography and Bioarchaeology”
K. Nikita, “Glass Vessels in Mycenaean Greece: Manufacture, Provenance and Their Function in Context”
E. Grabar, G. Papasavvas, and A. Charalambous, “Revisiting the Bronze Artifacts Excavated by the French Expedition at Enkomi”
D. Berger, B. Höpfer, and C. Maise, “From Cyprus to Switzerland? Analytical Evidence for Cypriot and Alpine Copper in the Middle Bronze Age Settlement of Möriken”
E. Miller Bonney, “Local Resistance Through Mortuary Architectural Traditionalism to a Soft Invasion on Bronze Age Crete”
A. Dimoula, Z. Tsirtsoni, and S. M. Valamoti, “Bronze Age Cooking Ceramic Fabrics from Northern Greece and Bulgaria: Technological Variability and Uses”
E. Simoni and O. Christakopoulou, “The Cracking the Code Project; Ancient Tales from the Grave. A Quantitative Approach to an Unknown Protogeometric Community from Aetolia”
A. Maczkowski, J. Francuz, M. Bolliger, T. Giagkoulis, K. Kotsakis, and A. Hafner, “High Resolution Early Summer Precipitation Reconstruction for the 55th-52nd Centuries BC in the Kastoria Basin, North-Western Greece”
U. Oguzhanoglu, “A New Style of Clothing and Ornament? Some Early Bronze Age Burial Gifts from West Anatolia”
D. Sari, “The Emergence of Ritual Pits: A Case from the Epipalaeolithic Context of Gedikkaya Cave in Northwestern Türkiye”
S. Murray, “Economic Change, Gender, and Labor in the Greek Early Iron Age”

Change and power entanglements

On 30 September 2024 abstracts (approximately 300 words) and personal details (title, full name, affiliation, email address) are due for an Early Career Researchers Conference entitled Change and power entanglements: Investigating a reciprocal relation in the Bronze Age Aegean, to be held on 7-9 March 2025 in Heidelberg. Abstracts should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Further information is available at https://www.academia.edu/121726391/Change_and_Power_Entanglements_Investigating_a_reciprocal_relation_in_the_Bronze_Age_Aegean. Contributions will be welcomed on the following themes/axes:
• Continuities and discontinuities: development of power versus abrupt changes
• Nurturing power: changes in the economy, trade and social networks, (re)sources, settlements patterns, administration
• Holding on to power: resilience of power institutions through periods of crisis
• Nature as a driving factor for change: topographical constants, climate change, geographic isolation, tectonic activity
• Showcasing power: changes in iconography, architecture, performance, material culture, ceremonial and social practices
• Changes in mnemonic strategies: past as catalyst and a resource

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

Χώμα Νερό Φωτιά. Earth Water Fire

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

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

ATINER 2024

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

Regional Mobilities and the Making of the Ancient Greek World

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

LAC 2024

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

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

Between the Indus and the Aegean in the Bronze Age

The call for abstracts (250 words maximum) has been extended for 20-minute papers are due for the Second International Workshop on Relations Between the Indus and the Aegean in the Bronze Age: Commodities and Exchange, to take place on 29-30 November 2024 at the University of Oxford. All presenters are invited to offer their papers for publication in a peer-reviewed proceeding of the workshop to be edited by Dr. Marie Nicole Pareja. Abstracts should be sent to Robert Arnott at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., from whom further information is available. Anyone who wishes to present or simply attend is invited to contact the organisers on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The proceedings of the First International Workshop, held in December 2022, will be published later this year by Archaeopress of Oxford.

SIMEP 2024

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

World Neolithic Congress 2024

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

POCA 2024

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

SAA 2025

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

MASt Summer 2025

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

46th International Mediterranean Survey Workshop

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

L’iconographie cynégétique

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

SOMA 2024

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

Petros D. Goneos Memorial Award

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

Ceramic Research in the Peloponnese

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

Nemea 100

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

SAA 2024

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

MAA Best Awards

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

Women in the Archaeology of Greece II

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

Marks, Marketing and Markets

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

Lidar and Landscapes

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

Recentering Central Greece

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

ΑΕΜΘ 2024

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

CAA2024

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

The Archaeology of Affluence

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

HYDOR

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

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