GIS and Economic Archaeology Workshop
On 19 May 2017 a workshop entitled GIS and Economic Archaeology Workshop will be held at the University of Bonn. Further information is available at http://www.wirtschaftsarchaeologie.de/en/events/gis-workshop-and-economic-archaeology-inter-and-intrasite-approaches-bonn/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
G. Papantoniou, "Unlocking Sacred Landscapes Research Network: Aims and Objectives/The case study of Iron Age Cyprus"
TAG-US 2017
On 19-20 May 2017 the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG-US) 2017. The Medium is the Message: Media and Mediation in Archaeology will be held in Toronto. Further information is available at http://www.archaeology.utoronto.ca/registration.html. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. Steingart, "The Mediation of the Imprint: Seal Impressions as Indices of Contact and Cognition"
P. Gheorghiade, "Cultural Interaction and Identity: An Entangled Approach to 'Mycenaean' Crete"
T. Sager, "Light and Dark: A Phenomenological Reconsideration of Minoan Palace Architecture and Its Relationship to Natural Spaces (Middle Minoan IB-Late Minoan IB)"
5th Young Researchers’ Conference in Aegean Archaeology
On 1-2 June 2017 the 5th Young Researchers’ Conference in Aegean Archaeology will be held at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Poland by the Department of Aegean Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw and Mare Nostrum Student's Scientific Organization. Further information is available at https://www.evensi.com/5th-aegean-conference-instytut-archeologii-uniwersytet/194828204. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
C. De Gregorio, “Cycladic Sauceboats in the Deposito Delle Camerette in Ayia Triada”
G. Georgakopoulos, “The Kitchen of the Palace and the Cooking Areas of the Houses in a Minoan Neopalatial Town: the Example of Kato Zakros”
I. Pappas, “Minoan Pottery Kilns: New Approaches and Re-Evaluations towards a Better Understanding of Minoan Technology and Socioeconomic Organization”
A. Filipek, “The Worship of the Great Mother Goddess on Crete from Neolithic till the Protogeometric Period”
J. Gaynor, “‘O Brother (and Sister), Where Art Thou?’ The Enigma of the Minoan Priesthood”
K. Bigoraj, “A Pig or a Boar? What Animal Can Really Be Found on the Minoan/Mycenaean Seals and Sealings?”
J. Cano-Moreno, “Some Thoughts about the Geographical Background in the Minoan Seals and the Landscape Approach”
J. Binnberg, “The Transformation of Images – Bird Depictions in the Early Mycenaean Period”
B. Rame, “Aegean Headdresses and Hairstyles during the Bronze Age”
M. Koźlakowska, “Bones, Burials and Bodies as Semiotic Objects – A Methodological Approach to Aegean Funerary Archaeology”
D. Tsikritsis, “Frying Pan Vessels and Astronomical Knowledge in the Aegean from Neolithic Era”
M. Avramova, “Aegean Archaeology in the Library. Presentation and Classification of Publications regarding Aegean Archaeology in Library Catalogues”
K. Chavela, “Towards the Birth of Cities… a Never Ending Story. The Case of the Thermaic Gulf”
K. Jarošová, “Late Bronze Age Settlement History of Emporio on Chios Reconsidered”
S. Aulsebrook, “Materialising Mythology: the Cup of Nestor from Shaft Grave IV at Mycenae”
S. Müller, “The Death in the Argolid. Types of Graves and Mortuary Practices during Late Helladic Times (c. 1600 – 1080 BC) in the Argolic Plain”