On 31 May 2013 a conference entitled Carl and Elizabeth Blegen Remembered. Ploutarchou 9, Celebrated was held by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation. Further information is available at http://www.archaiologia.gr/en/blog/agenta/carl-and-elizabeth-blegen-remembered/. The program was:

N. Vogeikoff-Brogan, "The Life of Carl W. Blegen: From a Grass Roots Perspective"

I. Tzonou-Herbst, "From the Mud of Peirene to Mastering Prehistoric Stratigraphy: Carl Blegen's Formative Years in the Corinthia and Argolid"

Y. Fappas, "The Govs of Mycenaean Archaeology: Carl W. Blegen's and Alan J. B. Wace's Friendship and Collaboration Through the Lens of Their Correspondence"

R. Pounder, "The Blegens and the Hills: A Family Affair"

Y. Galanakis, "'Islanders vs. Mainlanders,' 'The Mycenae Wars,' and Other Short Stories"

V. Florou, "Η Οικία Blegen επί της οδού Πλουτάρχου 9: Μια κληματαριά, πυκνή σκιά ωραίων συναντήσεων"

E. French, "'Εις ανώτερα': The Govs in the 1930s"

B. Rose, "Carl Blegen at Troy, 1932-1938, and the Question of a Trojan War"

N. Karadimas, "Οι ανασκαφές του Carl Blegen στην Πύλο μέσα από τον ελληνικό και ξένο τύπο"

J. L. Davis, "Blegen in Pylos: A Cultural and Cross-Cultural Phenomenon"

G. Papathanasopoulos, "Remembering Carl Blegen"

EAA 2013

On 4-8 September 2013 the 19th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA AM 2013) was held in Pilsen, Czech Republic. Further information is available at http://www.eaa2013.cz. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:

J. Vieugue, K. Kotsakis, L. Salanova, and G. Toufexis, "The adoption of pottery in south-eastern Europe: Social or economic factors?"

E. N. Yalman, "Pottery as memory item at Çatalhöyük"

E. Andoni, "Cultural and chronological features of Early Neolithic pottery of southeastern settlements of Albania"

P. Pavúk, L. Girella, and M. Gregor, "Same people, changing fashions: Negotiating identities in NE Aegean"

A. Vianello, "Entangled Aegean-type wares"

P. F. Biehl, I. Franz, and P. T. Willett, "Forming and Transforming the Human Body in the Near Eastern Neolithic and Chalcolithic"

E. Voulgari, "Neolithic pots with human characteristics: paths and vicious circles in archaeological thought"

M. Özdogan, "Humanized Vessels of the Early Bronze Age"

K. Bacvarov, "Bodies of Flesh within Bodies of Clay: Early jar burial tradition in Western Asia and Southeast Europe"

K. Eren, "Rethinking 'Religious Continuity' in the Archaic Period of Ionia: New Methodology for Old Material"

V. Klontza-Jaklova and M. Klontzas, "How and why did the Minoan Neopalatial System collapse?"

N. Sorodoc, "Theoretical perspectives on the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization and political transformation"

S. Ross, C. Longford, S. Connor, A. Herries, S. Mooney, A. Sobotkova, and I. Iliev, "Tells to flat sites: Bronze Age settlement dispersal and extensive agro-pastoralism on the Thracian Plain, Bulgaria"

R. Bishop-Taylor and A. Sobotkova, "Arable productivity and site catchments in the Kazanlak Valley, Bulgaria"

A. Sobotkova and R. Bishop-Taylor, "Iron Age Settlement Patterns and Subsistence Strategies in the Kazanlak Valley, Bulgaria"

A. Liveri, "Minoan and Mycenaean Ivories: Objects and Workshops"

J. Cutler, "The threads that bind: producing textiles and sustaining the community in the Aegean Bronze Age"

R. Storli and Z. Tankosic, "Diachronic Cultural Landscapes: Preliminary Results of the 2012 Field Season of the Norwegian Archaeological Survey in the Karystia (Euboea, Greece)"

M. Gurova, "A distinctive Neolithic toolkit from Bulgaria: raw material, techno-typological and functional connotations"

A.-L. Schallin, "A Biography of Argive Midea"

J. Cutler, "Travelling loom weights and non-local women: female mobility, textiles and identity in the Bronze Age Aegean"

B. Legarra Herrero, "What happens when tombs die? The historic afterlife of the Cretan Bronze Age tombs"

C. Murphy, "On the partitive nature of Minoan anthropomorphic figurines"

A. Bezic, "Refitting materiality/ hidden narratives. Heavy residue analysis at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey"

B. Molloy and M. Pavlacký, "Home-wreckers: Destruction and abandonment of an Early Bronze Age house in East Crete"

B. Molloy and R. Doonan, "Scrying, screening, or science: The role of handheld portable XRF in characterising archaeological bronzes"

M. Pieniążek, "The North Aegean at the Crossroads: Patterns of Distribution for Amber and Other Valuable Objects"

J. Czebreszuk, "Amber in the Mycenaean culture. Some general remarks"