23rd Neolithic Seminar

On 4-5 November 2016 the 23rd Neolithic Seminar: From Chronos to Chronologies. Radiocarbon Dating and Chronological Modelling of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Temporality in Eurasia will be held at the Department of Archaeology, Ljubljana University, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Further information is available at http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/arheologija/1/Dejavnosti/Konference-in-posveti/Neolitski-seminarji__.aspx. Papers of interest to

Y. Maniatis and K. Kotsakis, "Tracing the spreading of neolithisation in the Aegean with radiocarbon dating"

A. Reingruber, "Neolithic Thessaly: radiocarbon dated phases and subphases"

AIA 2017

On 5-8 January 2017 the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA 2017) will be held in Toronto. Further information is available at https://www.archaeological.org/annualmeeting. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

E.-A. Prevedorou, J. E. Buikstra, G. W. Gordon, and K. J. Knudson, "Paleomobility and Paleodiet through Biogeochemistry in Early Bronze Age Attica"

M. Carignano, "Soup's on! Expanding the Picture of Minoan Meals through Functional Analysis of Cooking Pots and Tablewares"

C. McNamee, "The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Using Microbotanical Evidence to Examine Bronze Age Subsistence"

K. Fisher, "Acting (G)locally: Monumental Place-making and Identity on Late Bronze Age Cyprus"

E. Langridge-Noti, R. DeGraaf, and P. Klingborg, "Paximadi's Past: Work on Early Canadian Excavations near Karystos in Euboia"

C. Cooper, "Secrets of the Goddess: The ROM's 'Minoan' ivory figurine and collecting Antiquity"

E. Kountouri and M. F. Lane, "Mycenaean Northeastern Kopais (MYNEKO) 2016): Report of the Excavations at Aghia Marina Pyrghos, 'Aghios Ioannis' and around Gla"

B. Burke, B. Burns, A. Charami, O. Kyriazi, and N. Herrmann, "The Early Mycenaean Funerary Enclosure at Ancient Eleon in Eastern Boeotia"

O. A. Jones, J. van der Plicht, L. Papazoglou-Manioudaki, and M. Petropoulos, "Use and Reuse in a Mycenaean Tholos: Using Radiocarbon and Bioarchaeology to Reconstruct Burial Practices at Petroto, Mygdalia"

K. Shelton, K. Kissas, L. A. Kvapil, G. C. Price, "TAPHOS, the Tombs of Aidonia Preservation, Heritage, and Exploration Synergasia: the 2016 excavation season"

K. Stiles, "The Individual, the Body and Chamber Tombs in Non-Palatial Late Bronze Age Central Greece"

S. R. Stocker and J. L. Davis, "The Palace of Nestor at Pylos, 2015-16"

D. J. Fallu, "A Tale of Two Citadels: A Comparison of Landscape Stability at Post-palatial and Early Iron Age Tiryns and Mycenae, Greece"

D. Gilman Romano, M. E. Voyatzis, and A. Karapanagiotou, "Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project, Summer Season 2016"

T. Van Damme and B. Lis, "Did Mycenaeans Wash Their Hands? A Functional Analysis of Late Helladic IIIC Kalathoi"

C. McCartney, "Ayia Varvara Asprokremmos, A PPNA Neolithic Taskscape on the Yialias River in Central Cyprus: Implications of Focused Resource Exploitation for Understanding Early Connections between Cyprus and the Mainland"

J. M. Webb, "Marki Alonia: a Long-Lived Early and Middle Bronze Age Settlement in the Alykos Valley"

P. Gaber, "Inland sites on Cyprus: The Yialias River and Urbanization in the Mesaoria Plain"

L. Kennan, "The 'prehistory' of a Cypriot Monastery: Prasteio Mesorotsos Archaeological Expedition and the Agios Savvas tis Karonos Monastery"

L. Graham, "The Middle Cypriot Foundations of Complexity at Prasteio-Mesorotsos"

A. McCarthy, "Landscape of Ritual Behavior at Neolithic Prasteio-Mesorotsos"

T. F. Strasser, A. van der Geer, S. Murray, C. Kolb, and L. Ruprecht, "The Asphendou Cave Petroglyphs: A Palimpsest in Stone"

J. Hruby, "Establishing Quantifiable Methodologies to Utilize Fingerprints as Reflections of Ancient Cultural Practices"

J. Gait, N. Müller, E. Kiriatzi, and C. Knappett, "Examining the Proto- to Neopalatial Transition through Pottery Production at Palaikastro"

Q. Letesson and T. Cunningham, "Architecture and Urbanism at Palaikastro. A New Neighborhood in Perspective"

S. Hemingway, "The Use of Metals at Minoan Palaikastro: New Finds"

C. Pratt and N. Momigliano, "Phases of Feasting at Palaikastro: LM III ceramics from building AP1"

R. Kulick, "Building Floors and Activity Areas at Palaikastro: Evidence from Micromorphology"

S. Riera-Mora, H. Orengo, N. Cañellas, A. Livarda, A. Krahtopoulou, R. Veropoulidou, L. Picornell, and V. Tzevelekidi, "Life Beyond the Palace: Managing the Territory of Minoan Palaikastro, Crete"

A. Livarda, R. Veropoulidou, V. Tzevelekidi, C. Tsoraki, L. Picornell, S. Riera-Mora, N. Cañellas, R. Kulick, A. Kriti, M. Andonova, M. Trivizas, and H. Orengo, "Minoan Foodways: A Culinary Map of Palaikastro, Crete"

A. Duray, "Disciplining Schliemann: His Reception and Archaeological Knowledge, 1880-1972"

T. M. Brogan, M. Eaby, Y. Papadatos, and C. Sofianou, "Intraregional Mobility: Recent Bronze Age Excavations at Mesorachi, Crete"

J. Day, B. Molloy, M. Pavlacky, and S. Bridgford, "Prepalatial Ceramic Production at Priniatikos Pyrgos, Crete"

E. Miller Bonney, "The Krasi B Tholos: An EM I Tomb in Krasi Pediados"

S. Muller Celka, "The Chrysolakkos Buildings at Malia (Crete): an Update"

J. S. Soles, G. Doudalis, L. F. Kaiser, and J. E. Morrison, "Memories and Realities in Early Neopalatial Mochlos"

A. J. Koh, M. G. Clinton, G. Flouda, and K. J. Birney, "The Mouliana Project: Results of the 2016 Season"

A. Crowe, "The Minoan Past in the Past: Bronze Age Objects in Early Iron Age Burials at Knossos, Crete"

D. Nakassis, S. Gallimore, W. Caraher, and S. James, "On the Banks of the Ancient Streams of the Inachos: The Western Argolid Regional Project, 2014-2016"

T. Carter, D. Athanasoulis, D. Contreras, J. Holcomb, D. Mihailović, K. Campeau, and J. Feathers, "Reconstructing Early Prehistoric Activity and Pleistocene Land- and Seascapes in the Cyclades: Survey and Excavation at Stélida, Naxos 2013-16"

B. Burke, B. Burns, and A. Charami, "Ebb and Flow at Ancient Eleon"

J. T. Barnes, "Thoughts on the Appearance of Carian Social Groups in the Early Iron Age Bodrum Peninsula"

C. D. Ichim, "Southern Aegean Connectivity and Cultural Dynamics during the Second Millennium B.C.E.: A Network Analysis Approach"

E. Gorogianni and T. Panagou, "New Evidence for Middle Bronze Settlement on Kea"

S. Vitale, "A Holistic Approach to the Socio-Cultural Analysis of Koan Light on Dark/Dark on Light Pottery During the LBA IA Period"

J. Earle, "Making Sense of Changes in the Ceramic Assemblage at Phylakopi on Melos during the Late Bronze Age"

D. A. Trusty, "Cooking up a New Model: Using Cooking Ware Vessels from Kalamianos to Identify Production and Exchange"

K. A. Jazwa, "The Late Helladic Roofing Tiles from Eleon, Greece: Construction and Form"

N. G. Blackwell, "Metal Allotments from the Palace: Tool Sets in Mycenaean Hoards"

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