On 9-11 January 2014 the 2014 Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA 2014) was held at the University of Reading. Further information is available from
C. Constantinou, "Round or Square: Does it Really Matter?: a view from the Neolithic of Cyprus and northern Levant"
E. Govier, "Seeing is believing: Painting and Meaning and Çatalhöyük"
P. Jacobsson, "Short-lived sites of the Cypro-PPN"
E. Stroud, "Continuity and change in the crop spectra of Neolithic and Chalcolithic central Anatolia: new evidence from Çatalhöyük West and Çamlıbel Tarlası"
N. D. Ünsal, "Mycenaean pottery of Çine Tepecik"
The Aegean and the Levant at the Turn of Bronze and Iron Ages
On 10-12 January 2014 a conference entitled The Aegean and the Levant at the Turn of Bronze and Iron Ages was held at the University of Reading. Further information is available at http://www.ihuw.pl/instytut/dzialalnosc/wydarzenia/aegean-and-levant-turn-bronze-and-iron-ages-warsaw-10-12-january-2014. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
Ł. Niesiołowski-Spano', "The Sea Peoples – nature of their migration to the East"
M. Węcowski, "Towards a social paradigm of cultural transfers in Early Iron Age Greece. Three (or four) case studies"
Marta Guzowska, What do we know about Aegean origin of the Philistines and why do we need to know more?
C. Paschalidis, "The Mycenaean Cemetery at Clauss, near Patras. The rise and fall of a local society towards the end of an era"
A. Fantalkin, "Archaeological context – Levantine perspective"
M. Grynberg and A. Juras, "New methods of investigation the past I – Human genetics"
A. Nafplioti, "Residential Mobility in the Aegean: Isotope Geochemistry Research"
I. Yakubovich, "Two cases of language coexistence in Ancient Anatolia: Sociolinguistic interpretation"
R. Rosół, "The earliest contacts between the Greeks and the Semites in the light of linguistic evidence"