The Aegean Seminar in Zagreb

The Aegean Seminar in Zagreb and the University of Zagreb have announced the following schedule of lectures. Further information is available from Helena Tomas at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

7 March 2016: S. Finlayson, "Seals and sealings of the Bronze Age Aegean: practicalities and problems"

4 April 2016: D. Nakassis, "Vorsprung durch Technik: digital technologies, archaeology, and the future of Aegean scripts"

5 April 2016: D. Nakassis, "Unthinking the Mycenaeans: towards a new history of the Late Bronze Age Aegean"

The Cycladic Seminar

The Cycladic Seminar has announced the following schedule of lectures for 2016, to be held at the Archaeological Society at Athens, 22 Panepistimiou Street.

10 March 2016: V. Sahoglou, "'Cycladica' around the Urla Peninsula, Izmir during the 3rd and 2nd Millennia BC"

24 May 2016: E. Gorogianni, "Aspects of Minoanization: New Evidence from the Northern Sector of Ayia Irini, Kea"

4 October 2016: D. Panagiotopoulos, "An enigmatic (;) absence. On the meagre evidence for seals and sealing practices in the Bronze Age Cyclades"

8 December 2016: J. Wright, "Full Circle: the tale of a prehistoric survey on Kythnos"

CAA 2016

On 29 March-2 April 2016 the 44th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2016): Exploring Oceans of Data will be held in Oslo, Norway. Further information is available at http://caaconference.org/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

S. Rutishauser, "Urbanism in the Cilician Plain from Chalcolithic to Byzantine Period"

Weaving the Past

On 18 March 2016 an international workshop entitled Weaving the Past: The Archaeology of Textiles and Textile Production in Greece in the First Millennium will be held at the British School at Athens. Further information is available here. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

M. Gleba, "Textile cultures in the 1st millennium BC Europe: a view from Greece"

V. Isaakidou and P. Halstead, "Weaving the past from bones: sheep (and goats) in the zooarchaeological record of Bronze Age and Iron Age Greece"

F. Iacono, "Purple Dye between the Aegean and the Central Mediterranean in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages"

I. Tzachili, "Weaving differences and similarities in the Bronze Age Aegean"

E. Andersson Strand and M.-L. Nosch, "Textile production in Bronze Age Aegean - new perspective"

J. Cutler, "Materialising production: textile tools, textile technology and cloth production in ancient Greece"