Mycenaean Seminars

The University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of Classical Studies has announced the following schedule of Mycenaean Seminars for Autumn 2024, to take place in the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House South Block Ground Floor G22 / 26, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Unless otherwise stated, Mycenaean Seminars begin at 3:30 pm. Further information is available at https://ics.sas.ac.uk/search-events.
9 October 2024: L. Ursprung Nerling, “Resistance is Futile: An emerging Cretan collective ethos as displayed through the larnax”
13 November 2024: L. Spencer, “The Middle Helladic pottery from Lerna: an overview”
12 December 2024: J. Murphy, “How the dead fuel the living: A reassessment of the Bronze Age tombs excavated by Blegen around the Palace of Nestor, Pylos”

 

New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium

The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium has announced the schedule of lectures for 2024-2025. All meetings will be held virtually on Zoom. Registration information, as well as abstracts for each talk, may be found online at nyabac.tumblr.com a few weeks prior to each meeting.
29 October 2024: O. Kouka, “Emerging Complexity in Prehistoric Samos and Beyond”
5 December 2024: T. Carter, “The Hill of Ariadne? The Minoan Peak Sanctuary of Stelida, Naxos”
11 February 2025: M. Oddo, “My Precious! Bronze Hoards and Other Buried Treasures of Minoan Crete”
18 March 2025: T. Van Damme, “Climatic Variability and Its Impact on Mycenaean Greece: Evidence from the North Slope of the Athenian Acropolis”
23 April 2025 (co-sponsored with the AIA NY Society): K. Kopanias, “Cyprus in Flux: Shedding Light on the 12th Century BCE through New Discoveries from Palaepaphos-Marchello, Cyprus (2021–2024)”

 

Sparta Live!

The Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies at the University of Nottingham has announced the schedule of Sparta Live! talks for Autumn 2024, to be held online at 5-6pm BST on MS Teams. Further information will be available at https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/csps/news-and-events/sparta-live.aspx. Lectures of interest to Nestor readers will include:
12 December 2024: M. Georgiadis, “The sacred landscape of Kythera and the peak sanctuary at Leska”

 

ARCH_RNT

On 3-5 October 2024 the 8th Symposium Archaeological Research & New Technologies (ARCH_RNT) will be held in Kalamata, Greece. Further information is available at https://archrnt.gr/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
C. E. Tselios, “Mechanical properties and function of Mycenaean bronze Type A swords: From analytical data to iconography”
N. Nerantzis and D. Matsas, “Samothracian Middle Bronze Age Metallurgy: The evidence from Mikro Vouni”
V. Orfanou, B. O’Neill, D. Müller, B. Molloy, and L. Burghardt, “Towards a better understanding of prehistoric crucible metallurgy based on field of expreiments”
M. Kylafi, V. V. Panagiotidis, A. Kazolias, A. Karamitrou, E. Militsi, A. Stampolidis, and G. Tsokas, “Fusion of Remote Sensing data for ancient landscape interpretation: The Pylos Geoarchaeology Project”
S. Menelaou, “Crafting choices for pottery-making in prehistoric Thermi-Lesbos, Greece: Manufacturing strategies and connectivity”
A. Vafiadou, N. Laskaris, and G. S. Polymeris, “Obsidian hydration and luminescence (TL/OSL/IRSL) ages of archaeological interest from Greece and Turkey: an obvious hiatus within the 4th millennium BC”
S. Katsarou, A. Aidonis, C. Kakasa, E. Ganiatsou, A. Souleles, L. Winkelbach, J. Blocher, J. Burger, and C. Papageorgopoulou, “The Late Bronze Age population of the cave of Lakes, Peloponnese: An anthropological, palaeogenetic and palaeodietary study”
C. Kakasa, A. Aidonis, E. Ganiatsou, P. Bantavanou, V. Saripanidi, A. Chrysostomou, P. Chrysostomou, and C. Papageorgopoulou, “Archontiko during the Iron Age and the Early Archaic Period: Daily life, health and diet”
B. Semiz, M. Kibaroğlu, and F. Dedeoglu-Konakci, “Neolithic pottery from Ekşi Höyük in the Upper Menderes Basin in Western Anatolia: An archaeometric investigation of raw material sourcing and manufacturing processes”
K. Theodorakopoulou, M. Ghilardi, C. D. Athanassas, and C. Delhon, “Radiocarbon dating of a hearth layer beneath the Minoan eruption deposits at Akrotiri, Santorini”
L. A. Angelopoulou, M. Kouri, and V. V. Panagiotidis, “Mystery of sandy Pylos: Crafting an immersive escape room adventure in a web-based game around Voidokoilia”
A. Oikonomou and M Kaparou, “Degraded Mycenaean vitreous artifacts safe taxonomy: A handbook”
D. C. M. Brown, “Assessing artefact diversity in mortuary contexts of the Greek mainland during the Late Bronze Age Aegean”

 

The Connected Past

On 3-6 October 2024 a conference entitled The Connected Past: Religious Networks in Antiquity will be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, with an optional network science workshop on 2-3 October. Further information is available at https://phh-connected-past-2024.sites.olt.ubc.ca/conference-info/program/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. A. Keyser, “The Role of Rhyta in Mycenaean Networks of Ritual Practice and Power”
E. Bentley and S. A. Cox, “Protection for the Ladies: Diffusion of Egyptian Bes and Taweret to Minoan Beset and Genii during the Bronze Age”
K. Mallinson and M. Harder, “Computational Approaches to Minoan Peak Sanctuaries Outside of Crete”

 

FoMArc2

On 4-5 October 2024 the 2nd Graduate Forum for Mediterranean Archaeology (FoMArc) will be held on Zoom by the Archaeological Research Unit (ARU) of the University of Cyprus. Further information is available at https://www.ucy.ac.cy/fomarc/#:~:text=FoMArc%2C%20as%20a%20student%20initiative,focusing%20on%20the%20Mediterranean%20region. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
J. Webb, “Metal artefacts and artefact production in Early and Middle Bronze Age Cyprus”
A. Dybkjaer, “Minoan seal analysis: exploring the opportunities of GIS and network models”
E. Grabar, “Revisiting the bronze artifacts excavated by the French Expedition at Enkomi”
M. Mertens, “Exploring diet through the lens of zooarchaeology: The case of the Late Bronze Age site of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus”
N. Köknar, “Cultural Landscape and Connectivity of the Coastal and Inland Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age”
P. De Weirdt, “Lost in Time, Bound by Space — Tracing the Diachronic Evolution and Spatial Configuration of the Archaeological Hinterland surrounding the Late Bronze Age site complex of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus”

 

YRA 2024

On 15-19 October 2024 the 7th workshop Young Researchers in Archaeometry (YRA 2024) will be held at the Cyprus Institute, in Nicosia, Cyprus. Further information is available at https://yrarch.github.io/current.html. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
C. Theotokatou, “Breaking into the ‘Black Box’: The contribution of ethnographic work in decoding Late Cypriot household structures”
A. Cercone, “A Dangerous Tradition: Asbestos-tempered Pottery in Prehistoric and Modern Eskişehir, Türkiye”
S. Gkinoudis and E. Margaritis, “Ongoing Archaeobotanical Research in Mycenaean Iklaina, Messenia, Greece”
G. Kasapidou, “Phytolith analysis for the investigation of plant exploitation in Bronze Age Cyprus”
P. Koullouros, “Fuelling Ancient Idalion: Charcoal Analysis and Insights into 1st Millennium BCE Cyprus”
E. Margaritis and M. Boyd: Keynote
M. Giannakopoulou, “Silver-lead and copper production on Early Bronze Age southern Sifnos: an overview”
K. Regnier, “The ‘production’ of Minoan red serpentinite”
N. C. Andriopoulou, G. C. Polymeris, K. C. Stamoulis, M. Schöbel, G. E. Christidis, S. Papadakis, A. Novikova, and N. Papadopoulos, “Deciphering Past Coastal Environments: Beachrock Characterisation and Luminescence Dating in SE Lasithi, Crete, Greece”

 

MEDITARCH

On 18 October 2024 the 1st MEDITARCH Postgraduate Conference in Greek and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology will be held at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in hybrid format. Further information is available at https://meditarch.arch.uoa.gr/activities/meditarch_postgraduate_conference/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
P. García Alcalde, “Early Iron Age deathscapes: a case study of the cemeteries at Lefkandi”
E. Gourgouleti, “Fields of transformation: The case of the funerary field of Knossos during the Late Minoan IIB – IIIA transition”
C. Theotokatou, “New insight into the spatial arrangement and social significance of Late Cypriot households: the application of Space Syntax analysis”
A. Pefani, “Wall-paintings in their architectural environment: unravelling sociopolitical strategies through sensorial impact at the palace of Pylos”
G. Tasopoulos, “The Minoan channel kiln: A technological innovation of the late bronze age in Crete”
P. Peppe, “Maritime Trade and Urban Dynamics: The Role of Perge, Phaselis, and Aspendos in Shaping Interregional Networks from the LBA to the EIA”
M.-P. Kevork, “Τhe gender of Cycladic figurines”

 

Κέα-Κύθνος ΙΙ

On 20-24 October 2024 an international conference entitled Κέα-Κύθνος ΙΙ: Ιστορία και Αρχαιολογία will be held on Kythnos and Kea. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
Γ. Μπασιάκος, Ε. Φιλιππάκη, and Μ. Γεωργακοπούλου†, “Πρώιμες αιγαιακές μεταλλουργικές κάμινοι στην Κύθνο και σε άλλες θέσεις: Παλαιοτεχνολογικές συσχετίσεις”
Γ. Γαβαλάς, “Μετάλλων τόποι στις Δυτικές Κυκλάδες Κύθνος, Σέριφος, Σίφνος. Από την επιστημονική έρευνα στην δημιουργία βιώσιμων δράσεων για την ανάδειξη των αρχαίων και νεότερων μεταλλείων”
J. M. A. Murphy, N. Abell, S. LaFayette Hogue, M. Nazou, C. Papoulia, M. Georgakopoulou†, and J. R. Baxley Craig, “Insular Networks and Early Kea: Insights from the Kea Archaeological Research Survey”
Μ. Μαρθάρη, “Παναγία Αντιλαλούσα Γυάρου και Καρθαία Κέας στη Μέση Εποχή του Χαλκού: Βίοι Παράληλλοι”
D. M. Crego, N. Abell, and J. C. Overbeck, “Evidence for ritual at Ayia Irini in period IV”
A. Belza, “Refining Late Cycladic II: Period VII at Ayia Irini, Kea”
E. Gorogianni and R. D. Fitzsimons, “Revisiting the Northeast Bastion: Architecture, Ceramics, and Socio-Economic Dynamics in Late Bronze Age Ayia Irini”
N. Abell, “A preliminary report on ancient pot-mending practices at Ayia Irini, Kea”
J. R. Baxley Craig, “The Ground Stone Edge Tools from Kephala and Ayia Irini, Kea”
C. R. Hershenson and R. D. Fitzsimons, Early LBA Domestic Architecture at Ayia Irini: Notes and Observations”
N. Mourtzas and E. Kolaiti, “Human adaptation to the Late Holocene relative sea-level changes along the coast of Keos Island (NW Cyclades, Greece)”

 

2024 World Neolithic Congress

On 4-8 November 2024 the 2024 World Neolithic Congress will be held in Sanliurfa, Türkiye. Further information is available at https://www.worldneolithiccongress.org/sessions.aspx. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
J.-D. Vigne and T. Cucchi, “Domestication of insular ungulates during the Cyprus-PPNB”
A. Mari and A. Tiliakou, “Treating the dead, choosing the bone(s?): performing Neolithic secondary burials in the Cave of Pan at Marathon, Attica, Greece”
R. Haddad, “The False Pretense of Permanence: Early Neolithic Sedentism Seen from Cyprus”
L. Webster and B. Horejs, “Setting the absolute chronology of Neolithic Çukuriçi Höyük, western Anatolia”
R. Asal, M. A. Polat, S. Çölmekçi, E. Öncü, H. Yıldırım, and Y. Yılmaz, “An Old Village in The Historical Peninsula: Neolithic Settlement of Yenikapi Istanbul/Turkey”
N. Nikolova, A. Tsurev, and K. Bacvarov, “The Early Neolithic of the Middle Maritsa Valley”
M. Grebska-Kulow, “The Early Neolithic in South-west Bulgaria; causes and consequences”
A. Hafner, A. Bogaard Amy, K. Kotsakis, and W. Tinner, “Submerged settlements of the South: early farmers between the Adriatic and the Aegean”
R. Ruka and E. Andoni, “Unwinding the Late Mesolithic-Early Neolithic transition in Albania”
A. Wasse and J. Clarke, “Choice in the Face of Change. How ‘Neolithic’ Were Cyprus and the Greater Syrian Desert in the 7th and 6th Millennia BC?”
J.-D. Vigne, F. Briois, and J. Guilaine, “The Southwest Asian Neolithic transition scrutinized from the island of Cyprus”
R. Özbal, A. Breu Barcons, H. Özbal, L. Thissen, A. T. Bıyık, and F. Gerritsen, “The Emergence and Evolution of Dairying in Neolithic Northwest Anatolia: Insights from Barcın Höyük”
A. Fassoulas, “Giving Meaning to the Technique: The Socio-Cultural Dimension of Figurine-Making in Neolithic Aegean”
S. Katsarou and A. Sampson, “Human Representations and Farming Economy. Insights from the Advanced Farming Stage in the Aegean”
A. Nafplioti and I. Serpetsidaki, “The Neolithic cemetery at Katsambas (near Knossos) on Crete in Greece: Shedding light onto complex mortuary practices”
A. Papathanasiou, “Ritual intensification and ancestral memory in Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave of Southern Greece”
S. Katsarou, F. Georgiadis, A. Papathanasiou, A. Siros, and A. Darlas, “Burials and Caves: The Spiritual Aspect of Their Relationship”
A. Aydoğan, M. Somel, and Y. S. Erdal, “Association with Mesolithic-Related Ancestry or Demic Diffusion in Neolithic Northwest Anatolia”
C. G. Santiago-Marrero, M. Lymperaki, E. Vika, D. Urem-Kotsou, S. Kotsos, and J. J. García-Granero, “Insight into Neolithic cuisine: a holistic approach for investigating charred food crust and absorbed residues from cooking vessels from Neolithic Stavroupoli (northern Greece)”
S. Souvatzi, “Ring-Shaped Settlements in Neolithic Greece and Turkey: Social Significance and Diverse Habitation”
S. Cveček, S. Stefanović, Y. S. Erdal, R. Özbal, and F. Gerritsen, “Infant Burials Associated with Houses in Central Balkans and Western Anatolia during Neolithic: Similarities, Differences, and Exceptions”
J. Chapman and B. Gaydarska, “Exotics: kick‐starting the earliest hunter‐gatherer ‐ farmer networks in Anatolia, the Aegean and the Balkans”
D. Sarı, “Short‐term Hilltop and Cave Settlements during the Neolithic Period: The Case of Keçiçayırı and Gedikkaya Sites”
N. Kolankaya‐Bostancı and E. Fidan, “Bahçelievler Neolithic Chipped Stone Assemblage: Local Tradition and Interregional Contacts”
I. Gatsov and P. Nedelcheva, “Lithic Technologies and the Raw Material Supply as an Adaptive Strategy in the Settlement Patterns of Marmara Sea Region During 7‐6 mill BC”
Ş. Aydıngün, “Istanbul Lagoons Neolithic Finds”
F. Dedeoğlu, “Looking the Aegean from Inner Southwest Anatolia: Ekşi Höyük and its relations and interactions”
H Taşkıran, “A Late Neolithic Cave Settlement in Southwest Anatolia: Suluin”
A. Beyazıt, “The Origin of Paint Decorated Pottery from the Neolithic Period in the Burdur‐Antalya Region”
A. Arslan, “Unveiling Community Identities: Tracing Clay Object Makers via Ancient Fingerprints”
Z. Derin, “Yeşilova Höyük and the Neolithic ‘Coastal Aegean Culture’”
A. İ. Aytek, A. Y. Yavuz, and E. Tarhan, “Lion King and the others: Preliminary results of faunal analysis of Yeşilova Höyük, İzmir”.
A. Ozan and H. Sağlamtimur, “An overview of the Neolithisation of Western Anatolia: What does the Ege Gübre settlement tell us about the Neolithisation of the coastal Aegean?”
A. Cura, “Spread of Round Shaped Objects identified as Sling Missiles in the Aegean during the Neolithic Period”
S. V. Todaro, “Red Ochre and Seafaring? Some implications for connectivity in the southern Aegean during the Neolithic”
A. Minelli and M. R. Belgiorno, “The lithic industry of the archaeological site of Pyrgos Mavroraki: new data for the reconstruction of the human presence on the island of Cyprus”
A. H. Simmons, “The Neolithic on Water: Neolithic Seafarers and the Colonization of Cyprus”
C. Marangou, “Neolithic Symbolic Imagery: Reality and Fiction, Memories or Illusions in a Material World”
V. G. Koutrafouri, “Rituals and Symbolic Systems in Early Prehistoric Cyprus: A Transdisciplinary Analysis of Social Cohesion and Transformation”
K. Bacvarov, N. Nikolova, G. Katsarov, A. Tsurev, and K. McSweeney, “Regional ideologies vs local expressions: the Early Neolithic burial evidence from Nova Nadezhda in Upper Thrace”
Ö. Çevik and Mine Uçmazoğlu, “Common and Rarer Polished Stone Tools from Neolithic Ulucak”
T. Strasser, “Neolithic Stone Axes from Crete and their Implications for the Wider Aegean”
L. Dietrich, B. Horejs, and M. Brandl, “Greenstone chisel-like adzes for carpentry were components of the Neolithic Package in Anatolia and the Balkans”
H. Tekin, “Reflection of the Turkish Eastern Mediterranean's Late Neolithic Lifestyle on Pottery: The Case of Domuztepe”
Ç. Atakuman, D. Erdem, and B. Erdoğu, “Pits, Pots and Bodies at Uğurlu Höyük: The Case of the Poly-Pod Box Pottery”
D. Koptekin, A. Aydoğan, N. E. Altınışık, K. B. Vural, D. D. Kazancı, C. Karamurat, A. Doğu, D. Kaptan, H. C. Gemici, G. Umurtak, E. Fidan, Ö. Çevik, B. Erdoğu, T. Korkut, C. J. Knüsel, S. D. Haddow, E. Özdoğan, M. Özdoğan, F. Gerritsen, R. Özbal, U. O. Usanmaz, Y. C. Derici, M. Uçmazoğlu, A. Götherström, Ç. Atakuman, Y. S. Erdal, A.‐S. Malaspinas, F. Özer, and M. Somel, “Unravelling Cultural and Genetic Interactions during the Aegean Neolithization”
L. Bonga, “Island Neolithic of the Aegean Sea”
M. Boyd, D. Smith, J. Hilditch, E. Margaritis, J. Wright, G. Gavalas, D. Athanasoulis, M. Marthari, K. Dellaporta, and C. Renfrew, “Integrated approaches to emerging later Neolithic Islandscapes in the Cyclades”
P. Tomkins, “Regional diversity in the adoption of pottery in the Aegean during the late seventh millennium BC. A new view from Knossos, Crete”
L. Karimali and S. Papadopoulou, “Neolithic obsidian Melian network in Greece: patterns of circulation and technical traits”
T. Carter, “Building Castles on Sand: Current Models on the Impact of Insular Aegean Hunter‐Gatherer Populations on Neolithisation Processes”
D. Guilbeau, “The relations between Aegean, Anatolia, Balkans between the 7th and the 5th millennium through the analysis of the chipped stone industry of Uğurlu (Gökçeada/Imbros Island)”
E. Özdoğan, “Early Neolithic in the Northern Aegean and Eastern Thrace: Cultural Contexts and Regional Connections”
H. Balcı, “An Archaeobotanical Perspective to the Neolithization of North Aegean through Hoca Çeşme Neolithic Site”
K. Trantalidou, “Before surplus production: foragers and food producers in inland and island caves of the Southern Balkan‐Aegean area”
A. Reingruber and G. Toufexis, “Flat sites of the late 7th and early 6th millennium BC in Thessaly, Central Greece (and beyond)”
G. Naumov and A. Reingruber, “Dating the Early Neolithic of Pelagonia: closing a chronological gap in Balkan prehistory”
J.‐P. Demoule, “Kovačevo and the oldest Neolithic villages in the Balkans”
S. Tsaneva, V. Nikolov, G. Samichkova, and V. Petrova, “Late Neolithic pit sanctuaries at Maritsa River Bend in Northern Thrace”
E. Yurtdaş, “Pottery Unity in Diversity: Red on White Ware and Neolithic Cultural Synthesis in Cyprus”
B. Kızılduman, E. Doğru, B. Semiz, and H. İcil, “Neolithic Pottery in the Karpaz Peninsula: Insights into Production Techniques and Cultural Practices”
M. Kiessel and E. Tangül, “A New Neolithic Settlement on Cyprus? Recent Discoveries at Aphendrika, on the North-Eastern Coast of the Karpas Peninsula”
D. Pullen, A. Papathanasiou, M. Galaty, and W. Parkinson, “Monumentality and Memory in Death at Ksagounaki (Alepotrypa Cave), Greece”
A. McCarthy, “Burying Memories: a Ritual Pit Complex at Neolithic Prasteio Mesorotsos, Cyprus”
Y. Yılmaz, “Archaeotanatological Analysis of the Graves found at Pendik Höyük in İstanbul”
H. Öniz, “A View at Sunken Prehistoric Settlements off the Turkish Coast”
O. Kaycı, “Potential prehistoric island communities in Cilicia to the north of the Eastern Mediterranean”
M. Brunner, A. Anastasi, K. Anastasi, A. Maczkowski, M. Bolliger, M. Hinz, S. Szidat, I. Gjipali, and A. Hafner, “Lake Maliq revisited: Fresh perspectives on Neolithic submerged settlements at former Lake Maliq, Albania”
M. Hinz, A. Anastasi, M. Brunner, K. Anastasi, M. Yermorkhin, I. Gjipali, and A. Hafner, “Discovering the wooden pillars of the Neolithic settlement: the waterlogged site Lin 3, Albania”
G. Karahan and K. Özçelik, “Epipaleolithic Layers of Karain B (Mediterranean Region, Turkey)”
Ç. Al. Algül, O. Kaycı, S. Balcı, A. Gopher, D. Mouralis, H. Tümer, and D. Silibolatlaz, “Epipalaeolithic Hunter-Gatherers of the Central Taurus: Eşek Deresi Cave (East Mediterranean/Türkiye)”
J.-D. Vigne, F. Briois, T. Cucchi, R. Hadad, N. Mazzucco, P. Mylona, M. Rousou, and A. Zazzo, “New light about the Epipaleolithic in Cyprus: the settlement of Pakhtomena”
Y. Aydın and E. Erbil, “Late Epipaleolithic Hunter-Gatherers of Northwestern Anatolia: Ballık Cave, İzmir/Turkey”
D. Sarı, “Gedikkaya Cave in North-western Türkiye: the Epipalaeolithic layer that connected to ritual activity”
Ç. Atakuman, C. Karamurat, H. C. Gemici, D. Koptekin, M. Somel, “Patterns of the Neolithization in the Aegean: A synthesis of Material Culture and a-DNA Evidence”
L. Bonga, “Say ‘Cheese’? Rim-perforated pans and basins of the Aegean Neolithic”