New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium has announced the updated schedule of lectures during the remainder of spring 2023. The lectures will take place on Zoom and begin at 12 pm EST. Further information is available at https://nyabac.tumblr.com/.
Thursday, 6 April 2023: N. Abell, “An Exploration of Mechanisms of Interaction and Exchange in the MBA–LBA Cyclades”
Tuesday, 18 April 2023: J. Soles, “The Rise and Fall of a Rich Minoan Town in Crete: 50 Years of Greek-American Collaboration Excavating at Mochlos”
ICAP 2023
On 28 March – 1 April 2023 the 15th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection: Advances in On- and Offshore Archaeological Prospection (ICAP 2023) will be held in Kiel, Germany. Further information is available at https://www.icap2023.uni-kiel.de/en. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Sarris and T. Strasser, “Investigating the sedimentary fillings of Megalos Peristeres Cave, Rethymno, Crete, through GPR techniques”
A. Sarris, K. Hatzigiannakis, and D. Panagiotopoulos, “The contribution of geophysical and spectral imaging techniques in the archaeological investigations of Minoan Koumasa”
SAA 2023
On 29 March – 2 April 2023 the Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting (SAA 2023) will be held in Portland, OR. Further information is available at https://www.saa.org/annual-meeting. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
D. Pullen, “Taking the Palace out of Palatial Control”
K. Grossman and T. Paulette, “Society against the State in Prehistoric Cyprus? Exploring the Politics of Village Life”
D. Pollard, “Peaks Above, Plains Below: The Deeper Context of Settlement Patterning in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Crete”
A. Simmons, “The Hippos Who Would Not Die: Akrotiri Aetokremnos, Cyprus, and a Scientific Dilemma”
A. Brysbaert, “A Moving Taskscape in the Late Bronze Age Argolid, Greece”
C. Hastorf, “Forensic Culinary Archaeology: Seeking the Longevity of Recipes and Their Flavors from Crete”
F. Dibble, “Formation Processes and Biases in Big Data”
CAA 2023
On 3-6 April 2023 the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods to Archaeology Conference: 50 Years of Synergy (CAA 2023) will be held in Amsterdam. Further information is available at https://2023.caaconference.org/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
R. Rivers, H. C. W. Price, P. Gheorghiade, V. Vasiliauskaite, A. Diachenko, T. Evans, and F. Rossi, “Minoan Assemblage Distributions and Machine Learning”
P. Cuthbertson, P. Tsakanikou, S. Kübler, and N. Galanidou, “Landscape Heterogeneity at the Acheulean Site of Rodafnidia (Lesbos, NE Aegean): Connecting sites and continental models through intermediary scales”
E. Mavros, “Gaming as a Guide to the Past Environments: A Gentle Assistance to Landscape Archaeology in Palaepaphos, Cyprus”
C. Safadi, “Establishing the guiding principles for maritime heritage data and databases in the eastern Mediterranean: initial review of feasibility and potential”
K. A. Crawford, G. Artopoulos, and I. Romanowska, “Does economic exchange drive settlement persistence patterns? Simulating patterns between Cyprus and the Levant during the Late Bronze Age”
P. Gheorghiade and C. Spencer, “Travelling the wine dark sea – Networks of Mobility in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean”
A.-M. Xenaki, “Point Process Modelling of human-landscape relations in Eastern Crete”
P. Kyriakidis and E. Gravanis, “A Framework for Modeling/Simulating Controls, Patterns and Consequences of Maritime Human Mobility Potential in Early Prehistory”