62nd ARU Public Lectures Series
The program of the 62nd ARU Public Lectures Series of the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus, focusing on the archaeology of Cyprus and the Aegean, has been announced for autumn 2025. All lectures are held virtually via ZOOM every Monday at 7:30 pm (EET) with some held in hybrid format; they are free and open to the public, but registration is required for access before each event starts. Registration is available at https://www.facebook.com/ARU.UCY/. Lectures of interest to Nestor readers will include:
12-14 September 2024: DAAD – Taziz Workshop: Dealing with Material Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean. Between Excavation and Digitization (hybrid)
30 September 2024: M. Devolder, “Masons’ marks and their meaning for the development of monumental architecture and the circulation of builders in the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus” (online)
4-5 October 2024: Second Graduate Forum for Mediterranean Archaeology FoMArc (hybrid)
7 October 2024: S. Vilain, “Through the looking-glass: Investigating Egyptian and Levantine imitations of Bronze Age Cypriot ceramics” (hybrid)
14 October 2024: Ά. Σπύρου, “Η Ζωοαρχαιολογία συναντά τη Βιολογία Διατήρησης: Μια διεπιστημονική προσέγγιση στην ανάδειξη της αξίας της Κυπριακής φυλής βοοειδών” (hybrid)
25 November 2024: C. Kearns, “Challenges and opportunities in the archaeology of rural landscapes of Iron Age Cyprus” (online)
2 December 2024: T. Pedrazzi, “Between the Levantine coast and Cyprus: Canaanite commercial jars as indicators of cross-cultural contacts (13th-12th Centuries BCE)” (hybrid)
ESHE 2024
On 11-15 September 2024 the 14th Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE 2024) will be held in Zagreb, Croatia. Further information is available at https://www.eshe.eu/meetings/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. Roditi, H. Bocherens, G. E. Konidaris, A. Athanassiou, V. Tourloukis, P. Karkanas, E. Panagopoulou, and K. Harvati, “Megaherbivore isotopic biogeochemistry supports glacial microrefugium status of the Megalopolis basin (Greece) across the Middle Pleistocene”
K. Harvati, V. Tourloukis, N. Thompson, D. Giusti, G. Tsartsidou, A. Athanassiou, G. Konidaris, E. Roditi, E. Panagopoulou, and P. Karkanas, “The MEGAPAL survey: New results on the lower Paleolithic of the Megalopolis Basin, Southern Greece”
G. A. Butiseaca, I. Vasiliev, M. T. J. van der Meer, I. J. E. Bludau, P. Karkanas, V. Tourloukis, A. Junginger, A. Mulch, E. Panagopoulou, and K. Harvati, “Expression of the MIS 12 glacial stage in the eastern Mediterranean and its impact over the middle Pleistocene hominins in Megalopolis Basin (Greece)”
G. Marciani, S. Lombardo, S. Arrighi, N. Thompson, V. Tourloukis, S. Benazzi, and K. Harvati, “The Uluzzian of Klissoura cave 1, Greece”
J. Gennai, P. Biagi, E. Starnini, and N. Efstratiou, “Neanderthal on the mountains: lithic technological behaviour at Samarina 1 (Pindus Mt., Greek Macedonia)”
PEBA 4
On 25-28 September 2024 the 4th Perspectives on Balkan Archaeology (PEBA 4). The Things of Life: Resources and Religion in the Metal Ages in Southeastern Europe will be held in Varna. Further information is available at https://pebasite.wordpress.com/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
S.-M. Valamoti: Keynote
R. Kurti, “Some Consideration on the Early Iron Objects from Iron Age Albania”
T. Valchev, “Late Bronze Age Daggers from the Lower and Middle Course of the Tundzha River, Bulgaria – Imports and Local Imitations”
J. Fries-Knoblach and M. Leppek, “Late Bronze Age Bresto (South-Western Bulgaria) - multiple resources, multi-purpose settlement?”
B. Athanassov, I. Kulov, and P. W. Stockhammer, “Pots and Pits: Ritual Practices at Iron Age Bresto?”
K. Çipa and S. Xhaferaj, “Economic Resources and Religious Aspects During the Bronze and Iron Age in Southwestern Albania”
M. Gori, “Mobility Between Tangible and Intangible Resources. What Makes the World Go Round?”
T. Krapf, “The Things of Life: The Diffusion of Cooking Pots in the Late Bronze Age Southern Balkans”