The June 2023 summer communications from Nestor (50.6) are available as a free download.
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TAG 2025
On 1 August 2025 abstracts (200 words) are due for the Annual Meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group: Theory in Action (TAG 2025), to be held on 15-17 December 2025 in York, England. Abstracts should be sent to session organizers. Further information is available at https://tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/
11th PFAZ
On 30 October 2025 abstracts (1000 words maximum) are due for the 11th Postgraduate ZooArchaeology Forum (11th PFAZ), to be held on 16-19 June 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal. Further information is available at https://sites.google.com/view/11pzaf?usp=sharing
LAC 2026
On 11 July 2025 session abstracts (200 words) are due for the 9th Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC 2026), to be held on 18-21 March 2026 at the University of Bamberg. On 30 September 2025 abstracts for papers and posters will be open. Further information is available at https://lac2026.com/. The themes of the conference will be:
• River and wetland landscapes
• Medieval landscapes
• Vertical landscapes
• Populations and demography
• Economies and resources
• Archaeological heritage and valorization of past landscapes
• Non-invasive methods and techniques
• Geospatial analysis
• Big data
ISBA11
On 26-29 August 2025 the 11th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA11) will be held in Turin, Italy. Further information is available at https://www.isba11.com/ Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
K. C. Koukzelas, “Biomolecular traces of the arrival of exotic landfowl in Bronze Age Crete”
D. Koptekin, “Out-of-Anatolia Migrations during the Neolithization of Western Eurasia”
Mobility, Social Integration and Culture Change
On 12-13 June 2025 a workshop entitled Mobility, Social Integration and Culture Change in the Mediterranean Bronze Age was held in in Udine. Further information is available at https://dium.uniud.it/it/notizie-ed-eventi/eventi/2025/6/12/mobility-social-integration-and-culture-change-in-the-mediterranean-bronze-age-workshop-progetto-prin-2020-final-workshop/ Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
G. van Wijngaarden, “Mediterranean Mobility and Connectivity in the Bronze Age: Blind Spots and Promising New Perspectives?”
G. Recchia, “Interacting Societies: Connections and Socio-Cultural Transformations in the 3rd Millennium BC Central Mediterranean”
M. Gori, “Mobility across the Adriatic between the 3rd and the early 2nd millennium BCE”
A. Mercogliano, P. M. Day, M. Gazis, A. Spiroulias, and K. Filis, “Pottery Production in the western Peloponnese between the late 3rd and early 2nd millennia BCE: new evidence and future directions”
S. T. Levi, “Circulation, Innovation, Hybridization: Data and Insights from Archaeometry”
M. Gazis, “East-West and North-South. Ionian-Adriatic Relationships in the Late Bronze Age. The Role of Achaea and Teichos Dymaion”
M. Bettelli, “Variability in Reception and Interpretation of Late Minoan Ceramic Style in Italo-Mycenaean Pottery”
E. Borgna, “Around 1200 BC. Mediterranean Mobility from a Cretan Perspective”
P. Stockhammer, “Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Human Mobility in the Bronze Age Aegean”
K. Aktypi, “Cultural Interaction between western and eastern Mycenaean Achaea... and beyond. An overview of the burial customs from Voudeni, Chalandritsa and Nikoleika”
E. Borgna, G. De Angeli, A. Mercogliano, and A. Verri, “Social and Culture Change at MBA-LBA Trapeza: the Multidisciplinary Project and the Contextual Archaeological Framework”
M. Roumpou, “Investigation of diachronic commemoration rituals at the Trapeza: preliminary observations using a multidisciplinary approach to consumption practices”
Spartan Studies
On 27-29 June 2025 the 1st Local Forum of Spartan Studies. Sparta, Archaeology and Green Tourism: Strategies for the Preservation and Promotion of the Monuments of Laconia was held in in Sparti, Greece. Further information is available at https://dium.uniud.it/it/notizie-ed-eventi/eventi/2025/6/12/mobility-social-integration-and-culture-change-in-the-mediterranean-bronze-age-workshop-progetto-prin-2020-final-workshop/ Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
C. Gallou, “Archaeology as a science of sustainability: The underwater archaeological site at Pavlopetri”
The June 2025 summer communications from Nestor (52.6) are available as a free download.