Aegean Seminar in Zagreb
On 28-29 May 2012 E. Cline delivered lectures to the Aegean Seminar in Zagreb and to the University of Zagreb entitled "Amarna, Ahhiyawa, and the Aegean: The Material and Textual Evidence for Trade and Contact between the Aegean, Egypt, and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age," "The Battles of Armageddon: From Har Megiddo to Armageddon," and "'Jerusalem Besieged: 4,000 Years of Conflict in the City of Peace" Further information is available from Helena Tomas at
BANEA 2012
On 8-10 June the 2012 Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA 2012): New Directions in the Ancient Near East was held at the University of Manchester. Further information is available at http://www.banea.org. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
J. Clarke, "The 8.2 and 5.9 kyr events in Cyprus: a review of the evidence"
D. Bolger, "Unmaking the self: bodies, identities and materialities in Chalcolithic Cyprus"
L. Crewe, "Beer production on Bronze Age Cyprus"
D. Knox, "Imagery and Society in Early-Middle Bronze Age Cyprus"
E. Cory-Lopez, "The Materiality of Cypriot Picrolite"
Mycenaean Seminar in Athens
On 14 June 2012 A. Batziou-Efstathiou spoke to the Mycenaean Seminar in Athens on "The Mycenaean settlement at Pefkakia, in Volos: the Iolcos harbour?"
Nuove ricerche a Festòs
On 27 June 2012 a conference entitled Nuove ricerche a Festòs, tra archeologia e filologia was held in Rome. Further information is available at http://www.disp.let.uniroma1.it/Contents/SchedaNews.aspx?idNews=144 or http://www.disp.let.uniroma1.it/fileservices/filesDISP/Festos_1_web.pdf. The program was:
E. Greco, "Le ragioni di una synergasia italo-greca
F. Longo, "La costruzione di un progetto di studio e di ricognizione: i risultati del primo quinquennio di ricerche"
A. Rossi, "Archeologia dei paesaggi a Festòs: metodi e analisi integrate"
A. Greco, "Dalle tavolette in lineare B alle indagini sulla collina di Christòs Effendi: una ricerca integrata"
A. Betto, "Christòs Effendi: dalla ricognizione alla sezione stratigrafica esposta ai piedi della collina"
M. Migliavacca, "La ricognizione sulla collina di Christòs Effendi: tra archeologia ed etnoarcheologia"
Minoan Seminar
On 1 August 2012 J. Driessen guided the Minoan Seminar around the Louvain la Neuve and Leuven Universities excavations at Kefali, Sissi.
EAA2012
On 28 August - 1 September 2012 the 18th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA2012) was held in Helsinki. Further information is available at http://www.eaa2012.fi/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:
E. Theodoroudi, "'Stories from the Grave': Metal Objects from an Early Iron Age Cemetery of Thessaloniki, Greece"
A. Brysbaert and M. Vetters, "The Exotic 'Other'? Studying Practices and Diverse Perceptions of 'Exotica' Via a Chaîne opératoire Approach to Materials and objects from Workshop Contexts in Tiryns, Greece"
K. O. Lorentz, "Bodies Transformed: Negotiations of Identity in Prehistoric Cyprus"
J. Bintliff, "Public versus Professional Perceptions of an Invisible Heritage: A Greek Case Study"
E. M. Bonney, "New Pottery for New Communities: The Appearance of Fine Gray Ware in Early Bronze Age Crete"
N. Karul, "The Role of the House inside the Settlement. A Case Study from Aktopraklik in NW Turkey"
M. Özdoğan, "Reading the Space in Prehistoric Excavations – Facts, Controversies, Biases in Extrapolating Evidence: A Case Study from Aşağı Pınar, Eastern Thrace"
Z. Eres, "An Ethnoarchaeological Approach in Reading the Wooden Architectural Remains Exposed in Archaeological Excavations: A Case Study from Eastern Thrace"
N. Yalman, "What Do Houses Tell Us?"
M. Forte, "The Neolithic House at Çatalhöyük (Turkey): A New Digital Approach to Interpretation and Reconstruction"
H. Whittaker, "Some Reflections on the Role of Processions in Mycenaean Burials"
F. Blakolmer, "Processions in Aegean Iconography: a 'Special Procession' in Seal Images from Minoan Crete"
A.-L. Schallin, "Ceremonial Space in Cycladic Late Bronze Age Towns"
J. Weilhartner, "The Vessels on PY Tn 316: Heirlooms or Artefacts of the last Palace of Pylos?"
A. Vianello, "Funerary Consumption and Symbolism of Exotica in Mycenaean Greece"
M. Miller, "Elevating the Dead in Funerary Processions"
E. M. Bonney, "Creating a Mycenaean Mortuary Landscape at Late Bronze Age Knossos
M. Bajema, "Palatial architecture and Processional movement: The Connections between Knossos and Pylos in the LM/LH II–IIIA period"
N. Şorodoc and J. Suistola, "New Theoretical Approaches to the Mycenaean Political System"
C. Wiersma, "The Development of Social Complexity in Bronze Age Greece"
M. Bajema, "The Vanishing masses: The Long-Term Trajectory of Artistic Representations of Crowds in the Art of the Aegean Bronze Age"