In Poseidons Realm XXII

On 31 October 2016 titles and abstracts (250 words including up to 2 figures) are due for the conference In Poseidons Realm XXII: We're all in the same boat – the social importance of ships, rafts and ferries, to be held on 17-19 March 2017 at the RheinMoselCampus of the Koblenz University of Applied Sciences. Papers are invited on topics of archaeology and history of navigation on Rhine and Moselle, as are those on sociology and cultural history of the nautical life through all periods and regions as well as on issues relating to communication allowed by watercraft to cross rivers, lakes and seas including its effects. Reports on new results of all kinds of field and basic studies or present theoretical discussions of old and new problems will also be welcome, as will reports on other kinds of new findings, on results from nautical and freshwater archaeology and cultural history, and on the latest developments of methodology and technology. Conference papers will be published in Skyllis. Further information is available at http://www.deguwa.org/.

BANEA 2017

On 15 September 2016 session and workshop proposals (including a list of agreed speakers, titles, and abstracts) are due for the 2017 Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA 2017), to be held on 4-6 January 2017 in Glasgow, with the main theme of Grand Challenges and Blue Skies in the Study of the Ancient Near East; on 31 October 2016 paper and poster titles and abstracts (200 words) are due. Further information is available at http://www.gla.ac.uk/. Conference sessions will include:

Encounters with Materials and Technologies

Routines, Memory and Performance

Landscapes of Transition

Archaeologies in and of Conflict

Big Data, Large Scales, Long-term - New Approaches

Ongoing Fieldwork

Posters