On 23-27 November 2016 the 8th International Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East: Near Eastern Lithic Technologies on the Move - Interactions and Contexts in the Neolithic Traditions was held at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia. Further information is available at https://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/documents/Conferences/CypPPN8_Program.pdf. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:

A. H. Simmons, "No Chipped Stone is an Island: A Reimagining of the Role of Early Cypriot Lithic Assemblages within the Neolithic World"

F. Briois, "Introduction, adaptation and development of the first Pre Pottery Neolithic communities in Cyprus: The contribution of lithic industries in the Amathus area"

C. McCartney, "Lithic contexts at the site of Ayia Varvara Asprokremnos, evidence for specialization"

A. McCarthy, "Intercommunity feasting in the Neolithic: a stone lined pit oven from Prasteio Mesorotsos, Cyprus"

J. Robitaille, "The ground stone industry of Klimonas. Comparisons with the Near East"

R. Kolvet, "Ground stone artifacts from Ais Giorkis, an unusual upland Cypro-PPNB settlement"

T. Moutsiou, "Social Networking and Raw Material Selectivity in Early Prehistoric Mediterranean Seascapes: The European Programme PRENET"

J. Robitaille and F. Briois, "Stone retouchers at Klimonas, Cyprus"

C. McCartney and N. Efstratiou, "The lithic assemblages of Vretcha-Roudias an upland early prehistoric site in Cyprus"

C. McCartney and I. Todd, "The 'lithic' deconstruction of Tenta and reassignment of phases 5–2 to the PPN"

C. McCartney and P. Anderson, "Accessing the origins of threshing in Cyprus"

S. Murphy, P. Bikoulis, and S. T. Stewart, "Early lithic finds and Bayesian Allocation Models in the Tremithos Valley, Cyprus"

P. Croft "Early Neolithic Kissonerga Mylouthkia"

J.-D. Vigne, "To what extent insularity has played a role in the Cyrpus Neolithic transition?"

A. Le Brun, "Khirokitia on the move?"

B. Milić and B. Horejs, "An addendum to the PPNB interaction sphere - pressure blade making from the 7th millennium BC Çukuriçi Höyük in western Anatolia"

D. Guilbeau and C. Perlès, "Please help us find the origins of Greek and Italian Early Neolithic lever pressure-flaking!"

D. Guilbeau, "Stones from the earliest Neolithic occupation in Northern Aegean (Uğurlu, Gökçeada Island, ca 6600 cal BC)"

A. Vinet, "Techno-functional study of the glossy flint blades from Çatalhöyük-West"