Material Koinai in the Greek Early Iron Age and Archaic Period

On 2 June 2014 abstracts are due for an international conference entitled Material Koinai in the Greek Early Iron Age and Archaic Period, to be held on 30 January - 1 February 2015 at the Danish Institute at Athens. Abstracts (400 words maximum, to include name, affiliation, and contact information) should be submitted to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Further information is available at

http://www.diathens.gr/en/events/konferencer.

Cultures of Stone 2014 Conference

On 15 June 2014 abstracts are due for the Cultures of Stone 2014 Conference, to be held at University College Dublin (UCD) on 18-20 September 2014, jointly organized by UCD School of Archaeology and UCD School of Classics with the support of the National Museum of Ireland. Abstracts (300 words, to include the title of the presentation, authors and institutional affiliation, and the most appropriate conference theme(s)) should be submitted to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Further information is available at http://culturesofstone.eu.pn/. Presentations from any period and geographical context are invited around the following themes:

The moving, trade, and exchange of stone

Sensory perception and engagement with stone

The reinterpretation of stone through experimental approaches

The ritualistic and symbolic meaning of stone

The transformation of stone from its sourcing to its final deposition

Stone and monumentality

SAA 2015

On 11 September 2014 abstracts (200 words) are due for the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA 2015), to be held from 15-19 April 2015 in San Francisco, CA. Further information is available at http://www.saa.org/.

TAG Turkey 2014

On 30 September 2014 abstracts (250 words including name, affiliation, postal address, and email address) are due for the Theoretical Archaeology Group Turkey 2014 (TAG Turkey 2014) meeting, to be held on 27-28 November 2014 at Mimar Sinan University (İstanbul). Papers are invited that are aimed at exploring the ways of defining the interaction of things and their interrelation with other things and humans symmetrically at different scales until they become "archaeological things", with the aim of encapsulating different opinions and perspectives on "things" which are basically the essential data of archaeology. Proposals for 20 minute papers should be sent by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Further information is available at http://tagturkey2014.wordpress.com.