The October 2025 issue of Nestor (52.10) is available as a free download.
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CAA 2026
On 26 October 2025 proposals for papers and workshops are due for the 53rd Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2026): It’s All About People, to be held on 31 March - 4 April 2026 in Vienna, Austria. Further information is available at https://2026.caaconference.org/.
Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Aegean Early Career Research Group
On 27 October 2025 paper proposals are due for the seventh mini-conference of the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Aegean Early Career Research Group, to be held online on 27 November 2025, organized by Sarah Lidwell-Durnin (Bristol) and chaired by Dr Yannis Galanakis (Cambridge). Papers should be 20 minutes long and will be followed by 20 minutes of discussion. Proposals should be submitted at https://forms.gle/PJN5cw4HbkiCgbP49.
EAA AM 2026
On 30 November 2025 proposals for sessions are due for the 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists: Resonant Pasts (EAA AM 2026), to be held on 26-29 August 2026 in Athens, Greece. From 19 December 2025 until 5 February 2026 the call for contribution submissions will be open. Further information and forms are available at https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2026.
WWTAC-2026
On 1 December 2025 abstracts are due for the 6th Water and Wastewater Technologies in Ancient Civilisations International Symposium (WWTAC-2026), to be held on 23-25 February 2026 in Florence, Italy; full papers are due on 15 January 2026. Further information is available at https://iwa-wwtac-2026.sciencesconf.org/. Invited topics include:
• Examples of past water technologies
• Water heritage promotion and maintenance
• Use/reuse of water in urban and rural areas
• Water culture and traditions
• Rainwater collection & harvesting
• Water resources management
• Water security
• History of irrigation and desalination
• Ancient and historical water technologies
• Energy, water, and machines
• Water quality preservation and improvement
64th ARU Public Lectures Series
The program of the 64th ARU Public Lectures Series of the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus, focusing on the archaeology of Cyprus and the Aegean, has been announced for winter semester 2025. Lectures are held in hybrid form via Zoom and at the Old Academy Campus, Kallipoleos Avenue, Amphitheatre E010 at 7:30 pm (EET); they are free and open to the public, but registration is required for access before each event starts. Further information is available at https://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2025/08/Winter-semester-2025_EMA_ARU_64th-Lecture-Series_FINAL-1.pdf. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
29 September 2025: S. Fourrier, “The Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age transition at Kition: New evidence from Bamboula”
6 October 2025: F. Le Mort, “Infancy and childhood in Cyprus during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period”
6-7 November 2025: International hybrid workshop: From Clay to Cargo: Tracing Technological Traditions of Maritime Transport Containers in the Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean
10 November 2025: L. Crewe, “Chalcolithic to Bronze Age at Kissonerga: between the land and the sea”
17 November 2025: D. Bolger, “Figurines, fragmentation and social transformation in prehistoric Cyprus”
Mycenaean Seminars
The University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of Classical Studies has announced the following schedule of Mycenaean Seminars for 2025-2026, hosted the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House South Block Ground Floor G22 / 26, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Registration is required. Mycenaean Seminars begin at 3:30 pm. Further information is available at https://ics.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/institute_classical_studies/MycSem%202025-26%20programme.pdf. The schedule will be:
15 October 2025: T. Van Damme, “New discoveries from ancient Eleon in Boeotia” (hybrid)
3 December 2025: L. Crewe, “Processing and cooking at Kissonerga-Skalia at the transition to the Late Bronze Age on Cyprus” (Zoom)
11 February 2026: M. F. Lane, “Recent discoveries in the Kopaic Basin, northern Boeotia, in the context of prehistoric land and water management in central and northern Greece” (hybrid)
11 March 2026: E. Salgarella, “Ariadne’s thread - Getting out of the maze of Linear A sign lists” (hybrid)
29 April 2026: B. Lis, “Late Bronze Age pottery in coastal Thessaly - insights into technology, trade and society” (hybrid)
13 May 2025: J. Whitley, “Homer and the New Materialism” (hybrid)
The program of Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) has been announced for autumn semester 2025. Registration is available at https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/Js0rB-RdROyuKrOqVoMWrg#/registration. Topics of interest to Nestor readers will include:
22 October 2025: P. Steele “Sematography in Linear A and B and related problems”
“The Mycenaean World” 37 years later
On 9-11 October 2025 an international conference entitled “The Mycenaean World” 37 years later: On the research paths of Katie Demakopoulou. «Ο Μυκηναϊκός Κοσμος» 37 χρόνια μετά: Στα ερευνητικά μονοπάτια της Καίτης Δημακοπούλου will be held at the Archaeological Society at Athens. Further information is available at https://www.archetai.gr/index.php?p=content&type=2&id=234&lang=. The program will be:
Ν. Βασιλικού, “Η Καίτη Δημακοπούλου στο ιστορικό πλαίσιο της αιγαιακής προϊστορίας”
D. Konsola, “Thebes: a story of close friendship and scholarly partnership”
W. Cavanagh, “Katie Demakopoulou and Laconia”
J. Crouwel, “Katie Demakopoulou: a personal reflexion”
Ν. Διβάρη-Βαλάκου, “Η Καίτη Δημακοπούλου ως ερευνήτρια και ως δραστήριο στέλεχος της Αρχαιολογικής Υπηρεσίας στον αγώνα κατά της αρχαιοκαπηλίας”
Α. Βrysbaert, “Behind the walls. Costing and timing in the construction of Mycenaean fortifications in prehistoric Greece”
Ν. Διβάρη-Βαλάκου, “H μυκηναϊκή ακρόπολη της Μιδέας: ένας αιώνας ερευνών”
J. Maran, “Midea and Tiryns: similarities and differences between two Argive Mycenaean centers”
Μ. Γκαζής, “Η προϊστορική ακρόπολη του Τείχους Δυμαίων. Παλαιά δεδομένα και σύγχρονες προσεγγίσεις”
Έ. Κουντούρη, Σ. Σπυροπούλου, Ν. Χατζηδάκης, Ν. Νινής, and Ε. Κοντογιάννης, “Το τείχος του Γλα. Το ιστορικό της έρευνας και τα νέα δεδομένα από τις εργασίες αποκατάστασης της Νότιας Πύλης”
Β. Αραβαντινός and Ι. Φάπας, “To ανακτορικό συγκρότημα και η οχύρωση της μυκηναϊκής Θήβας”
Μ. Kοσμόπουλος, “Η πολιτική οργάνωση της μυκηναϊκής Μεσσηνίας και η ενοποίηση του κράτους της Πύλου”
Μ. Ανδρεαδάκη-Βλαζάκη, “Ώσμωση Μινωιτών και Μυκηναίων στην Κυδωνία”
J. Davis and S. Stocker, “Crete and the Mainland: The evidence from the grave of the Griffin Warrior”
Ν. Καραδήμας, “Γεφυρώνοντας αρχιτεκτονικές παραδόσεις: το νέο ανάκτορο στον Άγιο Βασίλειο Λακωνίας ανάμεσα σε δύο κόσμους”
M. Anastasiadou and D. Panagiotopoulos, “61 years later: our current understanding of Mycenaean seals and sealing practices”
Β. Πετράκης, “O φθεγγόμενος μυκηναϊκός κόσμος: νέα ευρήματα και νέα ερωτήματα”
K. Kalogeropoulos, “Palatial jars in burial and non-burial contexts and their Neopalatial counterparts”
Ε. Kardamaki, A. Hein, M. Teconi, and P. Day, “Transport containers and trade in the Late Mycenaean palatial period”
U. Thaler, “Just like in Tiryns: local idiosyncrasies in the depiction of women’s attire – Argive fashion or artistic failure?”
Α. Dakouri-Hild, “Entropy, materiality and social difference in Mycenaean craft”
Α. Batziou and Β. Lis, “The LBA workshops of coastal Magnesia/Thessaly”
I. Παππάς, “Κάμινος: τοπικοί πειραματισμοί και πυρο-τεχνολογικές εξελίξεις στο Αιγαίο της 2ης χιλιετίας π.Χ.”
O. Boitte, “From arrowheads to artisans: techniques in Mycenaean stone knapping”
B. Ramé, “Goldsmithing for prestige: the complex art of Mycenaean funerary objects”
E. Κωνσταντινίδη-Συβρίδη, Ά. Γκούμας, and Μ. Κοντάκη, “Τα σφραγιστικά δακτυλίδια στο μικροσκόπιο: αγγίζοντας την τελειότητα”
S. Aulsebrook, “Studying the technology of Late Bronze Age Aegean vessels: building upon a valuable legacy”
Ν. Papadimitriou, K. Paschalidis, M. Kontaki, C. Tselios, M. Giannoulaki, and G. Mastrotheodoros, “Type A swords: weapons, ceremonial objects or tokens of value?”
C. Tselios, “The silver touch of death. Silver-plated bronze artifacts in the Mycenaean tombs of Pylia: an unknown funerary custom”
Ν. Blackwell, “Metal tools and the Late Bronze Age Argolid”
Σ. Σπαντιδάκη, “Νεότερα δεδομένα από τη μελέτη των υφασμάτων της ΥΕΧ: κατάλοιπα υφασμάτων από τους Ταφικούς Κύκλους των Μυκηνών”
D. Nakassis, “70 years after The Pylos Tablets: new light on the techne of their production”
Λ. Παπάζογλου, “‘O Μυκηναϊκός Κόσμος’ και το τέλος του ψυχρού πολέμου. Δύο αρχαιολογικές εκθέσεις στο Βερολίνο, Δυτικό και Ανατολικό (1988, 1990)”
K. Horst and Β. Steinmann, “The museological approach of the exhibition ‘Mycenae – The Legendary World of Agamemnon’ 2018-2019. Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Germany”
C. Lyons, E. Militsi-Kechagia, and D. Kosmopoulos, “From Messenia to Malibu: the ‘Princes of Pylos’ on display”
J. Driessen and Τ. Kalantzopoulou, “Mould first and ask questions later: the casts of the Lion Gate at Mycenae”
Κ. Νικολέντζος, “Η μόνιμη έκθεση μυκηναϊκών αρχαιοτήτων στο Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο”
R. Laffineur, “Conclusions and perspectives”
PoCA 2025
On 9-12 October 2025 the 22nd Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology Meeting (PoCA 2025) will be held in hybrid form by the University of Cyprus. Further information is available at https://pocaucy2025.wixsite.com/pocaucy2025/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
T. Humphrey, “Objects that Impress: Examining the Identification of Cylinder ‘Seals’ in Late Cypriot Society”
E. Grabar, “Revisiting the Metal Artifacts Excavated by the French Expedition at Enkomi”
J. W. Tillman, “The Anatolian Context of Philia Period Burial Types in Cyprus”
C. Barnes, “Mapping Settlement Pattern Changes: The Case of the MC III-LC I in Cyprus’s Northwest”
A. Schaefer, “Dromoi of Cypriot Rock-Cut Chamber Tombs and Their Architectural Design as a Space”
R. Charalampous, “Constructing and Negotiating Sacred Landscapes in Cyprus and Sardinia During the Later 3rd and 2nd Millennia BCE”
J. Darwin, “Of Sea and Stone: Using Statistical and GIS Analyses to Understand the Rituality of Stone Anchors at Kition, Area II”
M. Katiri, “A Review of the Application of GIS in Cypriot Archaeology and the Gap of the Prehistoric Bronze Age”
G. Albertazzi, “Water Threads: Current Research and Emerging Questions Toward a Diachronic Understanding of Human Engagement with Freshwater in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus”
C. A. Mohan Minos, “Technologies of Tradition: A Compositional, Technological and Experimental Investigation into Utilitarian Ceramics from Late Bronze Age Enkomi, Cyprus”
E. Bull, “Let them Laugh: Social Change Negotiated Through Humour as Evidenced by Figurines in Ancient Cyprus”
M. Schutti, “Beyond Souvlaki - Pig Iconography in the Cypriot Bronze Age and Early Iron Age”
S. Charalambous, “Late Aceramic Neolithic, Khirokitia Culture-An Anomaly, a Genderless Society or a Non-Binary one?”
IKUWA8
On 13-17 October 2025 the 8th International Congress for Underwater Archaeology (IKUWA8) will be held in Oostende, Belgium. Further information is available at https://www.vliz.be/ikuwa8/en. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
B. Moshe, “An Interpretation of Drill Construction and Operation Based on Homer’s Description in the Odyssey”
G. Votruba, “Central Eurasia and Approaches to Identifying Minoan and Mycenean Anchoring Traditions”
11th ICAZ AGPM
On 14–17 October 2025 the 11th International Council for Archaeozoology—Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics, and Morphometrics Working Group Meeting (11th ICAZ AGPM) will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Further information is available at https://sites.google.com/palaeome.org/11th-icaz-apgm-dk/home. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
K. Koukzelas, et al. “Birds of a Feather Trade Together: Biomolecular Evidence of Avian Mobility and Human Interaction in Minoan Crete”
YRA 2025
On 14-17 October 2025 the 8th Workshop for Young Researchers in Archaeometry 2023 (YRA 2025) will be held at the Eötvös Loránd University, in Budapest, Hungary. Further information is available at https://www.yra-ecr.org/current.html#proceedings. Posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
B. Costi Farias, A. Bertelli, L. Maritan, and J. Bonetto, “First Archaeometric Results on Early Iron Age Ceramic Fragments from the Sanctuary of Apollo Pythios in Gortyn, Crete”
INSTAP SCEC
On 22 October 2025 D. Mylona will address the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete on “Animal sacrifices and feasting in Neopalatial Crete.” Registration is available at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_Ww0sfBlSfud7t9W-NXAow.
Neolithic Study Group
On 3 November 2025 the Neolithic Study Group Autumn Conference: Kinship in Neolithic Europe will take place in London. Further information is available at https://neolithic.org.uk/2025/04/14/autumn-2025-3rd-november-kinship-in-neolithic-europe/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
S. Souvatzi, “Kinship and household in the Neolithic on both sides of the Aegean”
ASOR 2025
On 19-22 November 2025 the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Overseas Research (ASOR 2025) will take place in Boston, MA. Further information is available at http://www.asor.org/am/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
B. Arikan, “Comparing the Early Bronze Age Land Use Patterns: An Agent-based Modeling Approach from Anatolia”
R. Gerdes, “Feeding Urbanization? Reconsidering Agricultural Storage Practices in Late Bronze Age Cyprus”
F. Winter, “Late Bronze Age Handmade ‘Barbarian’ Ware as More Than Just a Demographic Indicator”
E. S. Anderson, “Feeling the Depths: Below the Surface in the Late Bronze Age Aegean”
L. Meiberg, L. A. Hitchcock, and A. Maeir, “‘The Adventure of the Speckled Bird’”
L. Crewe, “The Industrial Complex at Kissonerga-Skalia at the Transition to the Late Cypriot Bronze Age”
P. de Weirdt, D. Daems, P. Bes, F. Markou, J. Coenaerts, and R. Vandam, “Between the Highlands and the Coast: Settlement and Landscape Dynamics from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity – Insights from Four Seasons of the Hala Sultan Tekke Hinterland Survey Project in Southeastern Cyprus”
K. D. Fisher, S. W. Manning, and G. M. Andreou, “The Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project (Cyprus). Results of the 2025 Excavations at Kalavasos Ayios Dhimitrios and Maroni Vournes”
M. T. Horowitz, “End of an Era? Closing in on the Later Middle Cypriot Period in the Vasilikos Valley”
H. M. Herrick, “An Urban Landscape Under the Microscope: A Multi-method Geoarchaeological Analysis of Lime Production in Late Bronze Age Cyprus”
B. A. Clark and L. Recht, “Erimi-Pitharka in the Kouris Valley in the Late Bronze Age: A Comparative Ceramic Analysis”
C. Minos, “Technologies of Tradition: A Compositional, Technological and Experimental Investigation into Utilitarian Ceramics from Late Bronze Age Enkomi, Cyprus”
C. Mikeska and A. McCarthy, “Human-Animal Concepts in Chalcolithic Cyprus: An Interesting Pair of Pendants from Prasteio Mesorotsos”
D. Hartman, “Foreigners in the Aegean and ANE”
C. Trent, D. M. Adams, and A. M. Büyükkarakaya, “Utilizing Two Dental Stress Markers to Infer the Most Stressful Periods of Juvenility at Early Bronze Age Karataş-Semayük”
A. Simmons, “A More Harmonious Neolithic—Why Did Cyprus Not Develop Like its Continental Neighbors?”
L. Mazow, “Decoding the Blue Heads: A Fresh Perspective on Akrotiri's Bronze Age Iconography”
C. S. Colburn, “The Art of Grieving in the Prehistoric Aegean”
T. Yalcin, S. Kamjan, and C. Luke, “Soaring Skies, Seasonal Migrations, and Avian Wonders from the Wetlands of Western Anatolia”
S. Ponchia, “Meeting, Mingling, and Building Identity in Cyprus (between II and I Millennium BC)”
D. Winchell and L. Fox-Zampiccoli, “‘Phoenicians’ in the North? The Epigraphic and Ceramic Evidence from Northern Syria and Cilicia”
The September 2025 issue of Nestor (52.9) is available as a free download.
ISA 2026
Abstract submission is open for the 45th International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA 2026), to be held on 18-22 May 2026 in Torino, Italy. Further information and the link to submit abstracts is available at https://isa2026torino.it/. The subjects of the symposium are grouped into the following sessions:
• Theme Session - Cultural heritage experiences and community engagement through archaeometry
• Field methods and remote sensing in archaeological science
• Dating methods
• Bioarchaeology and biomolecules
• Material Culture 1 - Stone, pigments, plasters
• Material culture 2 - Ceramic, vitreous materials
• Material culture 3 – Metals
• Human-environment interactions
• Digital tools for archaeometry
Lessons from the Past
On 27 October 2025 abstracts (300 words maximum) are due for an international hybrid conference entitled Lessons from the Past: United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, to be held on 23–24 March 2026 by the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology of the University of Liverpool, in partnership with the University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Sustainability Research (ICSR) and the Victoria Gallery and Museum. Talks must result in a tangible recommendation to a specified body (e.g. a non-profit institution, local council, University, Government department, or even the United Nations). Presentations should explain how knowledge of the past supports the recommendation. Talks will be selected based on the feasibility of their recommendation and strength of linkage between the proposal made and the evidence used to support it. Poster submissions do not require a recommendation but should include relevant information linking knowledge of the past with a specific UN sustainability goal. Further information is available at https://lessonsfromthepast.info/.
In Poseidons Realm XXXI
On 31 October 2025 abstracts (250 words, plus 2 figures) are due for the conference In Poseidons Realm XXXI. Pontos Axeinos - Pontos Euxeinos: Underwater archaeology in the Black Sea, to be held on 4–10 May 2026 in Batumi, Georgia. As with all IPR conferences, contributions from all areas of research into underwater archaeology and cultural heritage are appreciated in addition to the main topic. Further information is available at http://www.deguwa.org/.