The December 2024 issue of Nestor (51.12) is available as a free download.
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Michael Ventris Award
On 1 February 2025 applications are due for the Michael Ventris Award for Mycenaean Studies for 2025 (up to £3000), to be awarded to scholars who have obtained a doctorate within the past eight years or postgraduate students about to complete the doctorate in the field of Mycenaean civilization or kindred subjects, to promote research in (1) Linear B and other Bronze Age scripts of the Aegean and Cyprus and their historical and cultural connections, or (2) all other aspects of the Bronze Age of the Aegean and Cyprus. Applications (6 pages maximum) should be sent by email, ideally as a PDF attachment to the Director (
Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars and Cincinnati Summer Residency Programs
On 15 March 2025 applications are due for both the Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars Program and the Cincinnati Summer Residency Program for 2025-2026. Applicants for the Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars Program will ordinarily be senior scholars who are 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 a minimum of one semester (ca. four months) and a maximum of two during the regular academic year. 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 may be more recent PhDs and other scholars who would benefit from the use of a world-class Classics library with their Ph.D. in hand by the time of application; they 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.
Island Legacies
On 15 December 2024 abstracts (300 words, excluding references) are due for a conference entitled Island Legacies: Prehistoric Insular Ecosystems, Societies, and Climate Change in the Mediterranean, to be held on 3-6 June 2025 at the University of Malta. Further information is available at https://www.um.edu.mt/events/islandlegaciesconf2025/. The themes of the conference will be:
• Pleistocene ecosystems and the first societies
• Holocene hunter-gatherers and the Mesolithic to Neolithic transition
• Neolithic and Bronze Age societies and environments
Sympozjum Egejskie 10
On 15 February 2025 titles and abstracts (in English, maximum 250 words) are due for the Sympozjum Egejskie. 10th Conference in Aegean Archaeology, to be held on 9-13 June 2025 in hybrid mode at the University of Warsaw, Poland. This tenth anniversary conference will also include a special session on scripts and seals, to be chaired by Sarah Finlayson, and a special workshop on ‘Spaces and Landscapes of Production’, to be chaired by Sylviane Déderix and Stephanie Aulsebrook, for which a separate call for papers will be issued. Proposals are especially welcomed from early career researchers. Questions should be directed to
IKUWA 8
On 15 March 2025 abstracts (250-300 words, plus 5 to 7 keywords) are due for the 8th International Congress for Underwater Archaeology (IKUWA 8), to be held on 13-17 October 2025 in Oostende, Belgium. Further information is available at https://www.vliz.be/ikuwa8/en.
Digital Impacts on Archaeological Fieldwork
On 4-5 December 2024 a conference entitled Digital Impacts on Archaeological Fieldwork: Advantages and Limitations will be held at the Norwegian Institute at Athens. This is the first of the Digital Archaeology Workshop Series (2024-2027): Exploring Layers of Digital Archaeological Practice. Further information is available at https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/digital_archaeology_workshop_series_circular.pdf and https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/digital_impacts_on_archaeological_fieldwork_advantages_and_limitations_flyer.pdf. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
V. Klinkenberg, “Fantasies and Fallacies of Going Digital at Palloures”
D. Nenova, P. Zafeiriadis, and Ž. Tankosić, “Gourimadi Archaeological Project Digital Recording Practices”
Human and Ecology Relations
On 4-6 December 2024 an international symposium entitled Çağlar Boyu İnsan ve Ekologi İlişkileri. Human and Ecology Relations Through the Ages will be held in Izmir. Further information is available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=ZOOARCH;3c768ae2.2405. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Karadaş, R. İlhan, S. Vardar, E. Öner, and A. Ersoy, “UNESCO Dünya Mirası Geçici Listesindeki İzmir Tarihi Liman Kentinin Paleocoğrafya ve Jeoarkeolojik Özellikleri”
Mısra Yanık, “An Anthrozoological Study on Findings of Domestic and Wild Pigs in the Bronze Age: Yassıtepe Mound”
H. Cevizoğlu and A. Moğol, “Kerpiç ve Kerpiç Yapıların İnşa Sürecinde İş Gücü Yönetimi –Eski Smyrna Örneğ”
S. Günel, “Çine Çayı (Marsyas) Bölgesinin Ekolojisi ve Çine-Tepecik Höyüğüne Kazanımları”
Mediterranean Survey Workshop
On 6-7 December 2024 the 47th International Mediterranean Survey Workshop will be held in Istanbul; registration for online attendance is available at https://dainst-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrdOmtqDMoG9UFwCpe3y-MZHuocgsemrdV#/registration. Further information is available at https://www.dainst.blog/transpergmikro/47th-ims-workshop-in-istanbul/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Slawisch and T. Wilkinson, “Hans Lohmann’s Chora of Miletos Survey: Legacy and open questions”
H. Beck, N. Nenci, S. Nomicos, and S. Vlizos, “Archaeological and geophysical survey around the Amyklaion, Sparti”
M. Başaran, “The Survey Project of Bronze Age Harbours in the Çanakkale Strait”
Interactions-Transmission-Transformation
On 31 October-3 November 2024 a conference entitled Interactions-Transmission-Transformation: Long-distance Connections in Metal Ages of South-eastern Europe was held at the Domus Scientiarum Viminacium, Serbia. Further information is available at https://rai.ai.ac.rs/bitstream/id/5154/3aps.pdf. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
K. Tsampa, A.G. Karydas, M. J. Boyd, and C. Renfrew, “Gold Crafting in the Aegean: Insights from Keros”
B. Heeb, “How to build a rampart – On the development of complex fortifications in Bronze Age (south-eastern) Europe”
B. Molloy, “Bronze Age megaforts of the south Pannonian Plain in their temporal and social context: An argument against proto-urbanism and for contra-urbanism in light of long-term macroculture traditions and neighbouring societies”
V. Kiss, “Mobility and trade: long-distance connections in the western part of the Carpathian basin at the dawn of the 2nd millennium”
S. Gimatzidis, “Archaeological imperialism and cultural hegemony in Balkan archaeology”
P. Zafeiriadis, Ž. Tankosić, and F. Mavridis, “At Aegean Crossroads: Southern Euboea in the Bronze Age”
A Deep Dive into the Kouris Valley
On 21 November 2024 an open workshop entitled A Deep Dive into the Kouris Valley: Past, Present and Future Research Perspective was held by the Erimi Archaeological Project at the Università di Siena. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1093709989421363&id=100063471176954&_rdr. The program was:
E. Mantzourani, “The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) excavation at Kantou-Kouphovounos: thirty-two years ago”
Y. Voskos, “Revisiting the ‘type sites’ of Kouris Valley: The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Cyprus Project (NCCP)”
G. Vavouranakis and Y. Voskos, “Back to the Future: Chalcolithic Erimi Pamboula under reconsideration”
F. Constantinou, “(Re)Discovering Chalcolithic Erimi: The case of Erimi Pampoula plot 313 and plot 568”
P. Christofi, “Erimi Bamboula: the 2011-2012 excavations. Topography, findings and historical continuity”
V. Stivarou, “From the Chalcolithic to the Late Bronze Age, a summary of three rescue excavations at Erimi”
D. Aristotelous, “Trial and rescue excavations at Erimi — the necropolis of Erimi-Kafkalla”
L. Bombardieri, “Erimi. A dynamic community in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus”
K. Papanikolaou, “Erimi-Pitharka: A Late Bronze Age settlement”
L. Recht and K. Zeman-Wisniewska, “New excavations at Late Bronze Age Erimi-Pitharka”
S. Hadjisavvas, “Alassa: A Regional Center of Alasia”
M. Amadio, “Erimi under the Microscope. Results and perspectives of microanalytic approaches to Middle Bronze Age Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou”
S. Meneleaou, “Identifying strategies for pottery manufacture, consumption, and circulation at Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou, through thin-section petrography”
S. Ghislandi and I. Rellini, “The EartHeritage Project and the paleoenvironmental studies in the Kouris valley”
A. Vandelli, T. Scarano, G. Baratti, and L. Bombardieri, “The LINK Project. An archaeological survey of the middle and upper Kouris valley. 2023-2024 preliminary results”
PoCA 2024
On 21-23 November 2024 the 21st Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology Meeting (PoCA 2024) was held at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Further information is available at https://pocadublin24.wordpress.com/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
E. Mavros, “Tactics of Power Establishment and Economic Stabilization in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Case of Alassa in Kouris Watershed”
D. Gavriil, “‘Death Becomes Them’: The Interplay of Domestic and Funerary Taskscapes in the Materialization of Burial Rituals at Alassa-Pano Mantilaris”
D. Papageorgiou, “Just Another Hole in the Ground? Reconsidering Pit/Shaft Graves in Palaepaphos During the Late Bronze Age”
C. Barnes and G. Braun, “Architectural Survey and Energetic Analysis of Late Bronze Age Ashlar Constructions on Cyprus”
E. de Koning, “The Crux of the Cruciform: Childbirth and the Iconography of Chalcolithic Cypriot Figurines”
A. Ladas, “Intriguing Inscribed Ship Representation at Palaepaphos: The New Data from the Excavation at Marchello’s Plateau”
T. Humphrey, “Tools of Trade? Cylinder Seals and Mercantile Identities in Late Bronze Age Cyprus”
F. Hájek, “Shell Exploitation and Marine Adaptation at the Late Neolithic Site of Paralimni Nissia, Cyprus”
H. Cliffen, “Fifty Shades of Clay: An Examination of Pottery Manufacture in the Late Bronze Age Through the Non-Destructive X-Radiographic and pXRF Analysis of Ceramics”
B. Clark and L. Recht, “Stratigraphic Insights from Erimi-Pitharka: LC IIC-IIIA Ceramic Sequences”