Kiel Conference 2023

On 13-18 March 2023 the Kiel Conference 2023: Scales of Social, Environmental & Cultural Change in Past Societies was held in Kiel. Further information is available at https://www.kielconference.uni-kiel.de/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:
S. Sabatini, “Consideration about the role of Nuragic Sardinia in the European Late Bronze Age metal trade”
L. Burkhardt, “The Ada Tepe gold mine (LBA) in the context of resources, exchange networks and social (in)equality”
S. Menelaou, “Mobility dynamics and socio-technological changes in the mid-late 3rd millennium BC circum-Aegean: reviewing the ceramic evidence”
P. Suchowska-Ducke, “The bronze cup from Dohnsen as evidence of social and physical networks”
M. Brandl, C. Hauzenberger, and P. Filzmoser, “Testing craft specialisation in Neolithic chert economy: A case study from western Anatolia”
K. Kotsakis, T. Giagkoulis, A. Maczkowski, J. Francuz, and A. Hafner, “Dispilio, Lake Orestias (Kastoria, Greece): new insights into the chronology and architecture of a Neolithic wetland habitation”
S. Perrakis, “Water Management Strategies in Prehistorical Crete: The Case Study of the Zakros region”
J. Stühler, “Modularity in Late Helladic Architecture: The Case of the Corridor Houses”
S. Schaefer-Di Maida, J. Laabs, M. Wunderlich, R. Hofmann, H. Piezonka, P.-A. Kreuz, S. Sabnis, J. P. Brozio, C. Dickie, and M. Furholt, “Scales of political practice and patterns of power relations in Prehistory”
X. Jia, E. Skourtanioti, L. Bejko, I. Pojani, H. Ringbauer, J. Krause, and P. W. Stockhammer, “Archaeogenomic pilot research of Kamenice, a prehistoric Albanian tumulus (1600-500 BCE)”
A. Bogaard, “Farming and early urbanism in Europe: the interplay of sociality, ecology and uncertainty”
E. Weiberg and M. Finné, “Land use expansion in Late Bronze Age Greece – a success story?”
M. Hostettler, “Exploring changes in land use and human impact in the prehistoric Southern Balkans and Northern Greece”
S. Dannemann, P. Avramidis, A. Emmanouilidis, J.-M. Henke, C. Piechocki, and I. Unkel, “First results: Suitability of the Chora Plain on Samos (Greece) for ancient agriculture”

SIZWG 2023

On 22-25 March 2023 a conference entitled Beyond the baseline: Broadening stable isotopic horizons in zooarchaeology was held by the ICAZ Stable Isotopes in Zooarchaeology Working Group (SIZWG) in Berlin. Further information is available at https://zooarchisotopes.com/sizwg-22nd-to-25th-march-2023-berlin/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
B. Irvine, R. Özbal, C. Luke, C. H. Roosevelt, C. Çakırlar, and F. Pirson, “Investigating Palaeoenvironment and Animal Management in Western Anatolia from the Neolithic to the Roman Period Utilising Stable Isotopes of Carbon and Nitrogen”
R. Özbal, S. Emra, S. Kamjan, E. Özdoğan, and N. Benecke, “Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope results for faunal samples from Aşaği Pinar”
C. Çakırlar, T. Brongers, and S. Pilaar Birch, “Neolithic herd management and foraging ecologies of wild fauna in Istanbul around 8.2k BP”

GAO 2023

On 27-29 March 2023 the annual Graduate Archaeology at Oxford Conference (GAO 2023) was held in Oxford. Further information is available at https://gao2023conference.mystrikingly.com/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
A. Falezza, “Mediterranean ports of interactions: Aegean and Southern Italy in the Late Bronze Age”
A. Holguin, M. Charles, and A. Bogaard, “Life on the lakeshore: the plant food-systems of the Late Neolithic in the southern Balkans”