On 10 March 2018 the third annual workshop Το αρχαιολογικό έργο του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου, 2017 (τὸ ἔργον17) will be held by the Archaeological Research Unit at the University of Cyprus. Further information is available at http://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/documents/Conferences/ARU_Workshops/arxaiologiko_ergo_2017_programme_final.pdf. The conference will be livestreamed at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjTR724hymIJDuFEeOkWBug. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
Ά. Γεωργίου, “Αναλύοντας τις εξωτερικές επαφές της Πάφου κατά την Ύστερη Κυπριακή Χαλκοκρατία: τα εισηγμένα αντικείμενα από το αστικό κέντρο και την περιφέρεια”
Μ. Ιακώβου, “Παλαίπαφος 2017 και MEANING, Ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα Α. Γ. Λεβέντη Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου”
Ο. Κουκά, “Ο προϊστορικός οικισμός του Ηραίου Σάμου: Οι εργασίες κατά το 2017”
Α. Κ. Βιώνης, “Settled and Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus (SeSaLaC): αποτελέσματα τέταρτης ερευνητικής περιόδου (2017)”
Θ. Μούτσιου, “Μελέτη σπάνιων πρώτων υλών από την πρώιμη προϊστορία της Κύπρου: νέα δεδομένα για πρώιμες κοινωνικές επαφές στην Ανατολική Μεσόγειο”
Α. Χαραλάμπους, “Λάπηθος - Βρύση του Πάρπα και Πύλα - Κοκκινόκρεμμος: Mελέτη χάλκινων αντικειμένων της Εποχής του Χαλκού”

No (E)scape

On 23-25 March 2018 a conference entitled No (E)scape: Towards a Relational Archaeology of Man, Nature, and Thing in the Aegean Bronze Age will be held at Universität Heidelberg. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/No-e-Scape-Heidelberg-118002745496630/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Aston, “Bodies from the Sea: Metaplasticity and the Boundaries of Social Cognition in the Aegean Bronze Age”
D. Olah, “Early Bronze Age Aegean Marble Figurines as ‘Storytellers’ of Human Interactions
B. Morda, “Unpacking Social Dimensions Through the Case of Talismanic Stones”

A. Hudler, “(E)scaping Arguments: Gemmae dubitandae and their Position in Exploring Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology”
G. Vavouranakis, “Weaving People into Prehistory. The Human Condition. Relational Approaches and Archaeological Narratives”
A. Ratigan, “Virtual Archaeology and Its Search for the Emic: Gleaning Observations Within Reconstructed Buildings”
P. Zeman, “Mycenaean Lower Towns in Context: Theory of Entanglement in the Study of Late Bronze Age Settlement Network”
A. Vouza, “Object and Subject: Re-approaching the Funerary Landscape of Asine (Greece)”
Y. Chatzikonstantinou, “No Escape from Death. Exploring the Manipulation of the Deceased in the Late Bronze Age Macedonia, Greece”
M. Marijan, “The Escape Over the Aegean, the lonian, and the Adriatic Sea: the Melian Obsidian on the Island of Vela Palagruza”
V. Alliata, “Investigating Borders: Apulian Settlements Between Land and Sea”
V. Karaiskos, “The Impact of Nature on Late Bronze Age Pottery Painting”
J. Binnberg, “Like a Duck to Water - Birds and Liquids in Aegean Bronze Age Rituals”
F. Franković, “The Lion, the Warrior and the Sword - Examining the Hierarchical Relations in the Iconography of the Late Bronze Age Aegean”
S. Tzirakis, “‘I am the serpent Sata ... I sleep and am reborn, renewed and rejuvenated each day’. Decoding Snake Depictions in the Minoan Art”
T. Andreovits. A. Kita, and D. Theodoraki, “Take a Walk on the Wild Side in Bronze Age Macedonia”
M. Anthrakidou, “People can’t be external observers of the landscape. They experience it: Understanding the Spatial Organization in Bronze Age Central Macedonia through the Application of the Geographical Information Systems (GIS)”
K. Dudlik, “Identity on the Crossroads - Society of Kos during the Late Bronze Age”
K. Evans, “The Escape and Fall of a Thriving Culture”
R. Dewan, “Of Mountains and Miniatures: The Role of Miniatures in the Sacred Landscape of Minoan Crete”
K. Zikakis, “Escaping the Peak: Peak Sanctuary Rituals, or Rituals on a Peak Sanctuary?”
G. Fakarou, “Natural Landscape in Shape of Human Body. A New Approach of the ‘Deity with Upraised Arms’ as an Embodiment of Minoan Peak Sanctuaries Surroundings”
E. Petridou, “Human and Environment in Conflict? The Enigma of the Youth God in the Aegean during Late Bronze Age”
A. Shobairi, “In the Land of the Mycenaeans: Some Thought on the Mycenaean Irrigation and Hydraulic Systems”
J. Staničová, “Aegean Bronze Age Textile Production and its Connection and influence on Nature”
K. Christodoulou, “Tin and Experimental Analyses on Tin-Coated Vessels from Argos during Late Bronze Age”
E. Angeli, “The Development of Maritime Activity in the Aegean during the Bronze Age: Navigational Techniques and Shipbuilding”