SAA 2016

On 6-10 April 2016 the 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA 2016) will be held in Orlando, Florida. Further information is available at http://www.saa.org/AbouttheSociety/AnnualMeeting/tabid/138/Default.aspx. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

R. Vandam, P. Tomkins, B. Neyt, B. Scott, and P. Degryse, “Investigating the Late Prehistoric (6500-2400 BC) socio-economic landscapes in the Burdur Plain, SW Turkey”

R. Fitzsimons, “Monuments for the Living, Monuments for the Dead: A Stone-by-Stone Guide to Mycenaean State Formation”

G. Price, “Discriminating Tastes: Intra-Species Variation in Exploited Fauna at Mycenae, Greece”

P. Day, “The Longevity of Ceramic Production Centres: historical contingency in the analysis of pottery”

J. Robison, O. Navarro-Farr, and P. N. Kardulias, “Phoenician Colonization of Nuragic Sardinia: A World-Systems Model of Periphery-Semiperiphery Interaction”

P. Kardulias, “The Examination of Changing Landscapes through Archaeological Survey in Central Cyprus”

W. Parkinson, A. Papathanasiou, M. Galaty, D. Pullen, and G. Papathanassopoulos, “The Diros Project: Multidisciplinary Investigations at Alepotrypa Cave and Ksagounaki Promontory, 2010-2015”

P. Karkanas, “Microstratigraphic Study of the Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave, Mani, Greece”

D. Pullen, “Measuring Ceramic Change and Variability at Final Neolithic Diros”

A. Psoma, “Ksagounaki, Diros: An Open Air Site of the Final Neolithic from the Viewpoint of Chipped Stone Tools”

D. Riebe and A. Gyucha, “A Home Above the Bay: A Neolithic Domestic Structure on the Mani Peninsula”

J. Giblin and A. Epitropou, “Human mobility during the Greek Neolithic: A multi-isotope analysis of the burials from Alepotrypa Cave”

W. Ridge, “Alepotrypa Cave and Regional Networks of Southern Greece”

M. Galaty, “Collective Memory and the Mycenaeans: The Argolid, Messenia, and the Mani Compared”

A. Bogaard, V. Isaakidou, E. Nitsch, and A. Styring, “The Agroecology of Inequality: Novel Bioarchaeological Approaches to Early Urbanization in Western Asia and Europe”

A. Basiran and C. Merih Erek, “The Prehistoric Cultures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus”

D. Fallu and J. Holcomb, “The Role of Bronze Age People in the Post-Bronze Age Landscape: An Integrated Geoarchaeological Approach to Site Formation at Mycenae, Greece”

A. Simmons, “Why Colonize? A Case Study of the Early Neolithic Colonization of the Island of Cyprus”

A. Cabaniss and K. Mann, “A Bayesian Framework for Combining Architectural Constraints and Artifact Assemblages in Domestic Spaces”

P. Vaiglova, A. Bogaard, P. Karkanas, and M. Pappa, “Preparing the Feast: Understanding the Nature of Agricultural Economy at Neolithic Makriyalos, Northern Greece, using Multiple Isotopes”

Z. Chovanec and S. Rafferty, “Detecting Olive Oil and Other Mediterranean Plant Oils: Experimental Considerations in Differentiating Lipids in Ancient Residues”

K. Jarriel, “Modeling Small World Networks in the Cyclades (Greece)”

T. Polanyi, “The Second Voyage of Odysseus: Tale of the Traveling Warrior of Bronze Age Europe”

L. Kaiser, “The Role of Intercommunity Feasting in the Development of Social and Economic Complexity at Early Bronze Age Mochlos”

J. Murphy, “The Value of All that Glitters: Beads in the Tombs around Pylos, Greece”

K. Jazwa, “Constructing Collapse: A Technological Analysis of Early-Middle Bronze Age Domestic Architecture in Mainland Greece and its Social Implications”

W. Gilstrap, V. Kilikoglou, and P. Day, “Painting and Firing Technology in the Late Bronze Age Saronic Gulf: A Study of Ceramic Microstructures by SEM”

N. Abell and M. Georgakopoulou, “Re-casting from Scrap: The Role of Ayia Irini in Bronze Age Aegean Metallurgy”

H. Tomas, “Following the Early Maritime Routes from the Adriatic to Greece”

L. Swantek, “A Complex Systems and Network Science Approach to the Emergence of Social Complexity on Cyprus during the Prehistoric Bronze Age”

J. Cherry and T. Leppard, “Re-Assessing Island Colonization and Exploitation in the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Mediterranean”

S. Pilaar Birch, “From the Aegean to the Adriatic: Exploring the Neolithization of Islands”