On 14-15 March 2015 the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford Annual Conference: Transition and Bridging the Divide: new approaches to archaeological investigation will be held at Oxford University. Further information is available at http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/gao-conferences.html. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
M. Trognitz, "Approaching multi-sided Aegean seals with machine learning techniques"
J. Binnberg, "Birds in the Aegean Bronze Age – an interdisciplinary approach combining anthropology, ornithology and archaeology"
New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
On 20 March 2015, 6:30 pm, E. Mantzourani will address the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts, One East 78th Street, NY, New York on "Modeling everyday life in Crete and Cyprus with reference to Egypt." Interested guests are always welcome; please R.S.V.P. 212-992-5803 or
The Aegean Writing Systems
On 20-21 March 2015 a conference entitled Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems will be held by the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Further information is available at http://www.cambridgeadventurer.net/urbs/. The program will be:
S. Ferrara, "Creating writing: Secondary script formation in the Aegean"
R. Decorte, "Cretan Hieroglyphic and the nature of the script"
P. Steele and T. Meissner, "From Linear B to Linear A: The problem of the backward projection of sound values"
A. Judson, "Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: the evidence of the 'extra' signs"
H. Tomas, "Linear B script and Linear B administrative practice: Different patterns in their development"
V. Petrakis, "Reconstructing the matrix of the 'Mycenaean' literate administrations"
M. Egetmeyer, "Problems of sign forms: A new and long Eteocypriot inscription"
M. Valério, "Script comparison in the investigation of Cypro-Minoan"
Y. Duhoux, "Is there anything like a Cypro-Minoan 3 script?"