The July 2026 summer communications from Nestor (53.7) are available as a free download.
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In Poseidon’s Realm 32
On 30 September 2026 abstracts (250 words plus 2 figures) are due for the meeting of the DEGUWA. In Poseidon’s Realm XXXII: The Voyages of the Kogge and Co., to be held on 8-9 May 2027 in Bremen/Bremerhaven. As with all IPR conferences, in addition to the main theme, contributions from all areas of underwater archaeology and underwater cultural heritage are welcome. Further information is available at https://www.deguwa.org/en/conferences/. Abstracts should be sent to
MAGS 2027
On 10 September 2026 abstracts (300 words) are due for the 7th Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium (MAGS 2027), to be held on 10-13 March 2027 at Aix-Marseille University. Further information is available at https://hff-mags.org/mags-2027/. Contributions under the overarching theme of recent developments and discoveries in eastern Mediterranean may engage with, but are not limited to, the following themes:
• Nautical and Harbour Archaeology
• Maritime Networks and Social Interactions
• Maritime Cultural Landscapes and Seafaring Communities
• Geoarchaeology and Palaeoenvironments
• Sustainability and Historic Ships
• Ship Science and Engineering of Ancient Boats/Harbours
• Maritime History, Ethnography, and Art
• Museum Studies and Public Engagement
ScapeCon 8
On 28–29 May 2026 the 8th Ιnternational Conference of ScapeCon: No Escape: Timing. Life cycles, seasonality and human activities in the Bronze Age Aegean (ScapeCon 8) was held at the Università di Catania. Further information is available at https://scapecon8.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/7?fbclid=IwY2xjawSwuphleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeF9fzuGXJ0-DWrvQJuWdfreFDJO8z4byEKT9fNyWUTog3WeJbzuqPD4TKLsI_aem_ascPnKVQLEycwY40Fw1VIQ. The program was:
A. Brysbaert, “‘Like Sands through the Hourglass’. Seasons and Time as Resources in LBA Aegean Construction and Related Crafts”
C. Chiara, “Time and Living Spaces: Settlement Choices, Architectural and Topographical Solutions, and Relationships between Complementary Settlements in Response to Seasonal Climate Change in Minoan Villas”
M. Chiricallo, “Designing for Seasonal Rainfall? Sunken Catch Basins and Roof Configuration in Minoan Architecture”
M. Amadio and L. Bombardieri, “In Step with the Seasons: Earthen Architecture as an Adaptive Strategy to Climate and Social Changes in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus”
A. Peterková, “Enough Time to Build? An Energetic Study of Bronze Age Domestic Architecture in the Eastern Aegean Islands and Western Anatolia”
F. Buscemi, M. Figuera, and T. Messina, “From Quarry to Palace: Insights into Labour Time-Costs at the Late Bronze Age Palace of Phaistos”
C. Sofianou, T. Brogan, M. Eaby, and D. Mylona, “Evidence for Seasonality in the Bronze Age Settlement on Chryssi off the Coast of Crete”
G. Salvadori and L. F. Kaiser, “Living in an Older Frame: Temporal Rhythms and Settlement Change at Mochlos LM III”
E. Angeli, “Repairing Time: Post-Firing Perforations and the Temporal Habitus of Neolithic Pottery from Halai, East Locris (Central Greece)”
G. Ntzoufras, “Seasonality, Transhumance and Economic Transformations in Minoan Crete: The Evidence from the Uplands”
A. Karagianni, “Lines of Time, Cycles of Temporality: Interweaving Daily and Ritual Times at Final Palatial Knossos Based on Textual and Archaeological Data”
G. I. Lefa and S. M. Valamoti, “Tracing the Cycles of Time through the Integration of Archaeobotanical Remains and Linear B Texts: The Palace of Nestor as a Case Study”
E. Platania and F. Toscano, “Rhadamanthys’ Thread: Time and Space of Textile Production from Flock to Yarn at Phaistos”
L. E. Wilson, “Lamps and a Hearth: Using the Material Remains of Lighting to Study Social Activities in the Plateia Meïdani at Kastelli, Pediada, Crete”
S. Trucolo, “Light Devices in Context from Phaistos in the Protopalatial Period (1900-1700 BC): Living between Daily Activities and Ritual Practices”
B. Rueff, “Lighting Day and Night: Temporal Rhythms and Artificial Illumination in Minoan Domestic Space”
K. Lehmann, “Street Light: Seasonal Sun and Shadow in Neopalatial Gournia”
V. Kyriakidis, “Constellations and the Supernatural in Neopalatial Seal Iconography”
S. Guglielmino, “A Multidisciplinary Re-evaluation of Celestial Navigation in the Late Bronze Age Aegean”
A. Querci and C. Caleo, “Time, Distance, and Late Minoan Circulation: The Knossos-Kommos Sea-Route”
A. B. Dolino, “Ἐν δ᾽ὀπίσω Σκορπίος: Notes for a Reinterpretation of the Gold Pendant from Haghia Triada”
T. S. Andreovits, “Seasonality and Embodied Social Practice in Minoan Glyptic Imagery”
J. Komitzas, “Turning the Past into Memory: The Problematics of Time on Mycenaean Human Imagery”
L. Tapinos, “Heterotopia and Liminal Frames: The Running Spiral in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean”
F. Nani and S. Vitale, “Time After Time: Late Helladic IIA Aeginetan-Mycenaean Interaction through the Lenses of Repeated Feasting Practices at Mitrou, East Lokris”
A. Fatsi, “All in Good Time: Months, Religion and Production Cycles in the Mycenaean Palace Record”
S. Firtikiadou, “Aparchae: Seasonal Religious Offerings in the Creto-Mycenaean World”
I. Högner, R. Friedrich, and P. W. Stockhammer, “Revealing Secondary Practices in Mycenaean Chamber Tombs through Chronological Divergence of Skeletal Material and Finds”
N. B. Ayash, “No Escape from the Times of the Dead: Revisiting the Spatial Arrangement and Orientations of Minoan Tholoi in Relation to their Functionality”
J. Mahl, “Time after Death: The South-Central Cretan Tholoi Annexes as Physical Markers of Passage from Individual to Ancestor”
The June 2026 summer communications from Nestor (50.6) are available as a free download.
XXIst International Aegean Conference
On 8-11 June 2026 the XXIst International Aegean Conference/ XXIe rencontre égéenne internationale. NESTOR: Celebrating the Work of Wise Jack Davis will be held in Athens, Greece. Further information is available at https://classics.uc.edu/humanities/classics/aegaeum/aegean-conference. The program will be:
K. Lynch, “Wise Jack Davis’ career and achievements (1)”
M. Galaty, “Wise Jack Davis’ career and achievements (2)”
F. Blakolmer, “The Mycenaean or Minoan Character of the Arts in the Shaft Grave Period in the Light of Recent Finds and Research”
L. Morgan, “Heroic and Mythic Action: Warriors, Hunters, Lions and Griffins”
E. Mantzourani and G. Vavouranakis, “Wild Versus Domesticated Fauna in Prehistoric Cyprus: Iconography and the Zooarchaeological Record”
M. Marthari, “Swallows and Fleets: Iconographic Correlations between Akrotiri, Thera, and Pylos, and Transmission of Artistic Ideas in the Aegean”
R. Laffineur, “Some Reflections on Nestor’s Ceremonial Fleet”
H. Brecoulaki and E. Egan, “‘Reed’ the Room: A Recycled Wall-Painting Fragment from the Palace of Nestor”
W.-D. Niemeier, “The Master of the Combat Agate from Pylos”
M. Anastasiadou, “The Birth of Mycenaean Glyptic on the Greek Mainland in LH I-IIA”
D. Nakassis, “Ὄπως ἡμεῖς περίπου: Modern Analogies and Analogical Arguments in Tsountas”
E. Oddo, “Methodological Questions in the Publication of the Knossian Northwest Treasure House”
K. Shelton and L. Kvapil, “Beyond the Scepter: Prehistory in the Nemea Valley”
S. Vitale, “Resetting the Mycenaean Palaces: A Plea for the Reconsideration of Cultural and Social Variation in the States of Mainland Greece, circa 1375 to 1175 B.C.E.”
S. Voutsaki and N. Karadimas, “Agios Vasileios, Laconia: First Thoughts on the Rise and Fall of a Mycenaean Palatial Centre”
C. Shelmerdine, “A Fresh Look at Mycenaean Perfumes”
M. Kilani, “The Language of Luxury: Foreign Terms for Imported Goods in Mycenaean Sources”
S. Lupack, B. Weissova, S. James, M. Skuse, and P. Kasimi, “Mycenaeans in the Perachora Landscape”
W. Gauss, J. Rutter, and I. Tzonou, “A Tale of Three Understudied Bronze Age Ceramic Stages at Corinth and Korakou”
I. Tzonou, “Jack Davis and Korakou: How Did Mycenaean Corinth Become Wealthy?”
L. Papazoglou-Manioudaki, “The House of the Bronzes at Mygdalia, near Patras, in Achaea: The Architecture of the Local Elites in the Early Mycenaean World”
B. Forsén, “Early Sanctuaries and Tribes in Southern Arcadia”
C. McNamee, S. Vitale, S. R. Stocker, and E. Malapani, “Archaeological Research and Heritage Preservation: A Case Study Illustrating the Benefits of Land Use Mapping to Rescue Excavation at the Site of Romanou, Southwestern Messenia”
E. Tsiolaki, “Surveying Messenia: Challenges and Opportunities of Working with Legacy Surface Survey Data”
B. Eder, “Kakovatos in Context: Tracing Early Mycenaean Networks”
M. Cosmopoulos, “Social Memory and the Homeric Topography of Messenia”
E. Malapani, “Beyond the Mycenaean Horizon: Later Finds from the Cemetery at Antheia-Hellinika, Messenia”
S. Lafayette Hogue, “The Palace of Nestor Main Building from the Trenches”
M. Loy, “A GIS-archival Approach to Locating the Vayenas Grave Circle at Pylos”
R. Schon, “Promoting Regional Authority at Pylos: Soft Power and the Palace of Nestor”
E. Kountouri and A. Vlachopoulos, “In the Shadow of the Palace. The Mycenaean Cemetery at Volimidia (c. 1600-1050 BC)”
J. Hruby, “Beyond the Survey Horizon: Demographic Resilience after the Collapse of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos”
M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki, “Neopalatial Khania (Kydonia)”
C. Broodbank, E. Kiriatzi, and T. Wilkinson, “Late Bronze Age Small-scale Farmers as Analytical Individuals: The Micro-dynamics of Ceramic Production, Acquisition and Consumption among the Farmsteads of Second Palace Period Kythera”
T. Cullen and L. Talalay, “Hitting the JackPot: A Curious Vessel from Neolithic Plakari”
P. Zafeiriadis, “Separate Ways (But Not Worlds Apart): Southern Euboea in Cycladic Prehistoric Context”
C. Hale, “Potsherds from a Different Edge: Alternative North-South Connectivity in the Middle Bronze Age Aegean”
N. Papadimitriou, I. Mathioudaki, A. Balitsari, S. Déderix, and R. Laffineur, “Thorikos and the Cyclades in the Mid-2nd Millennium BCE: The Western String from an Attic Perspective”
T. Whitelaw, “A Tally of Two ‘Cities’: The Island Towns of Ayia Irini and Phylakopi in Comparative Perspective”
J. Newhard and C. Burton, “Developing Cross-Comparative Frameworks for Land Use Histories. Northwestern Kea in Context”
R. D. Fitzsimons, A. Belza, D. Wilson, and C. Hershenson, “Water Management at Ayia Irini: A Diachronic View”
K. Efkleidou and E. Gorogianni, “Guarding the Bounty: Agricultural Harvests and Storerooms of Ayia Irini, Kea”
M. Galaty, “Applying Greek Survey Methods Outside of Greece: Part One, the Western Balkans”
W. Parkinson, “Applying Greek Survey Methods Outside of Greece: Part Two, the Carpathian Basin”
L. Bejko, M. G. Amore, S. Aliu, and H. Tomas, “Landscape Archaeology of the Upper Devoll Valley in Southeastern Albania”
I. Pojani, “New Discovery of the Circuit Wall: Insights into the Boundaries of Archaic and Hellenistic Epidamnos-Dyrrhachion”
D. Hernandez, “On the Origins of Bouthrotos”
E. Hasaki and L. Alberti, “Bull-Leaping Spectacles: Performance and Politics in Bronze Age Palaces”
E. Zangger, “Celestial Symbolism and Lunisolar Timekeeping in Bronze Age Cultures”
T. Palaima, “Testing First Principles in Mycenology: Epistemology, Palaeography and Textual Interpretation”
S. Buck Sutton, “Field Notes: Observations on Jack’s Role in Bridging Disciplines”
N. Abell, T. Nash, J. Baxley Craig, and M. Georgakopoulou (†), “Bullets from Ayia Irini and Their Possible Implications for the Military History of Modern Kea”
E. Athanassopoulos and C. Cloke, “Landscape Archaeology as Long-Term History: Methodological Innovations and Generational Impact of the Kea, Nemea, and Pylos Surveys”
M. K. Dabney, “Problems in Interpreting Archaeological Survey Site Function”
C. Putzolu, C. McNamee, and S. R. Stocker, “From Sketches to 3D models: The Benefits of Low-cost LiDAR Sensors for Documenting Archaeological Stratigraphies"
M. Gkouma, P. Karkanas, and W. Gauss, “From Combustion to Construction: Fire Use and Spatial Organization in Late Helladic Aigeira”
L. Magno, “From Objects to Sediments: A Micromorphology Study of Pebble Surfaces at Sissi (Crete)”
L. Schepartz and S. Miller-Antonio, “Challenges and Rewards of Restudying Human Skeletal Collections from Archaeological Contexts in Greece”
D. Ruscillo, “The Anatomy of a Boar’s Tusk Helmet: Identifying the Chaîne Opératoire of a Mycenaean Warrior Status Symbol through Experimental Archaeology”
P. Halstead and V. Isaakidou, “Τα αφεντικά πρόβατα της Κυράς Μαρίας”
J. Wright, “Two Treasures from the Archives: The Works of James Ferguson at the ASCSA and His Association with Heinrich Schliemann”
N. Vogeikoff-Brogan, “From the Cold War to Classical Studies: John McCloy and the Ford Foundation's Funding of the Athenian Agora”
J. L. Kramer, “All of Blegen’s Men: The Representation of Workers at the UC Excavations at Troy and Pylos”
T. Brogan and E. J. Huffman, “The Study Center for East Crete: A Review of Its First Three Decades”
J. Sacher, “From Corinth to the Grave of the Griffin Warrior: Hesperia and the Publication of Prehistoric Greece”
K. Paschalidis and K. Voutsa, “American Indian Hunters at Athens: The Fascinating Chronicle of an Unknown Exchange of Artefacts between the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Hellenic National Archaeological Museum in the Interwar Period”
J. Bennet, “The Tyranny of Text: Interweaving Material, Textual and Visual Approaches to Aegean pasts”