On 1 February 2013 a symposium entitled Island, Mainland, Coastland & Hinterland: Ceramic Perspectives on Connectivity in the Ancient Mediterranean was held in Amsterdam. Further information is available at http://www.npap.nl.

A. Bevan, "Pottery, politics and persistent landscapes in the Mediterranean"

K. A. M. van den Berg, "Barbarian Ware Strikes Again: Problems and Potential Significance of a Particular Ceramic Assemblage for Understanding Past Networks"

E. Nodarou and Y. Papadatos, "Mixing traditions – mixing cultures 'kampos group' pottery in prepalatial Crete"

A. Pautasso, "The Lion, the Sphinx and the Deer. Cultural connections and local identities in Geometric Crete"

A. S. Diener, "Adaptation, rejection and transformation: orientalising motifs on Cretan pottery from the 9th to 7th centuries BC"

C. Morgan "Shifting perspectives: ceramics and connectivity in the central Ionian islands"

M. Kramer, "Social networks of the Late Bronze Age Euboean Gulf: the ceramic evidence"

L. Girella and P. Pavúk, "Shaping insularity: patterns of acculturation and hybridisation in the NE Aegean between the Middle and Late Bronze Age"

C. Langohr, "East Cretan ceramics during the advanced Late Bronze Age: Assessing regional traditions and interaction networks"

A. Leriou, "Connectivity vs. insularity: reading the ceramic record from Early Iron Age Cyprus"

A. Dimoula, "Early pottery technology and production. The case of Thessaly"

A. Pentedeka, "To change or to exchange? The formation of ceramic landscapes in Neolithic Thessaly, (Greece)"

L. Donnellan, "Mediterranean networks and Euboean connectivity. Phantasies, theories and some sherds"

A. Alexandridou, "Interconnections in central Greece. Examining the ceramic assemblages from the early island settlement of Kephala (Skiathos, Sporades)"

E. Gorogianni and N. Abell, "Insularity and Cosmopolitanism in Ayia Irini, Kea"

S. Traunmueller, "Up, up and away? Remoteness and connectivity in the Cretan mountains- a ceramic perspective from the Neopalatial period"