On 5-7 November the International Young Scholars Conference II: Mediterranean Anatolia will be held by the Suna - İnan Kıraç Research Institute on Mediterranean Civilizations (AKMED) in Antalya, Turkey. Further information is available at http://gbb.kaleicimuzesi.com/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

R. Vandam, "Reconstructing the Late Prehistoric Cultural Landscape (6500 to 2400 B.C.) in the Burdur Plain, South-West Turkey: An Insight into Settlement Patterns, Preferences and Interaction"

O. Kara, "Kumyeri Nekropolü Erken Tunç Çağı Seramik Sanatı"

S. B. Kanbur, "Bademağacı Kazılarında Bulunmuş Olan İlk Tunç Çağı Çanak Çömleği Üzerine Bir Araştırma"

H. Bulut, "Karain, Suluin ve Öküzini Mağaraları Kemik Alet İşçiliğinde Tekno-Tipolojik Özellikler ve Karşılaştırmalı Değerlendirmeler"

Aegean Lecture

On 13 November 2015 M. Ntinou will address the Aegean Lecture series on "Prehistoric communities and woodland resources in Greece. Anthracological (wood charcoal) analyses in context" at 7:00 pm at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9). Further information is available at http://www.aegeussociety.org/en/index.php/aegean-lectures/.

SOMA 2015

On 12-14 November 2015 the 19th Symposium On Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA 2015) will be held in Kemer/Antalya, Turkey. Further information is available at http://www.genama.info/soma/2015/index.html. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

G. Dönmez, "An Example to the Submerged Prehistoric Settlements in Marmara Sea: Avşa Island"

A. Zafer and A. Aslan, "Bronze Age Stone Anchors in Cilicia Coast"

ΙΣΤ΄ Επιστημονική Συνάντηση Νοτιοανατολι κής Αττικής

On 18-22 November 2015 the ΙΣΤ΄ Επιστημονική Συνάντηση Νοτιοανατολι κής Αττικής will be held in Laurion, Greece. Further information is available at http://www.aegeussociety.org/images/uploads/lectures/2015/16th-Scientific-Meeting-of-Southeast-Attica-programme.pdf. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

Κ. Ντούνη, "Τεχνικά έργα κατά την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Χαλκού (3η χιλιετία) στη Νοτιοανατολική Αττική"

Ε. Χαριτάκη, "Η διασπορά της αττικής γεωμετρικής κεραμικής στον κόσμο"

POCA 2015

On 25-27 November 2015 the 15th annual Postgraduates in Cypriot Archaeology: An Unexpected Journey. Cypriot Ancient Communities in Continuity and Transition. (POCA 2015) conference will be held in Torino, Italy. Further information is available at http://poca2015turin.jimdo.com/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

F. Heil, "Rituals: Spaces of Gathering and Adaption in Bronze Age Cyprus"

M. Cultraro, "The Child and the Foreign God: reconstructing a Late Bronze Age ritual practice in Tomb 12, Kalavassos-Ayios Dimitrios"

E. Scarsella and S. Ruzza, "Changes and burial practices. Social interaction on Cyprus between LC IIC and LC IIIB"

G. Muti, "Following the fil rouge. Economic and social aspects of textile dyeing in the Cypriot communities of the Middle and Late Bronze Age"

B. Stärz, "The origin of the game of twenty squares in Cyprus"

M. Samaes, "Late Cypriot IIIA Hala Sultan Tekke. A community in continuity and transition"

T. Bürge, "Potmarks at Hala Sultan Tekke: Continuity or Change from LC IIC to LC IIIA?"

P. Cosyns, "The glass consumption in Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age"

M. Yamasaki, "Marine resources and interregional trade in prehistoric Cyprus. Mutually related or independent phenomena?"

J. Tracz, "Harbour towns in the Bronze Age Cyprus"

A. Paule, "A journey starting in protohistoric Cyprus. Travelling people, travelling jewellery, travelling goldsmiths' traditions"

F. Spigno, "Bun Ingots, in Cyprus; Pannelle in Sardinia"

M. Giobbe, "Early and Middle Bronze Age pottery from the MPM survey project: petrographic analysis"