MAGG

On 8 November 2024 the 3rd Meeting of the Archaeobotany in Greece Group (MAGG) will be held online. Further information is available at https://www.efa.gr/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024-11-08_ARCHEOBOTANIQUE_programme.pdf. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
S. M. Valamoti, “Identification Criteria, Mystery Seeds and Misidentifications: Coming to Terms with a Process”
C. Diffey, A. Livarda, and H. A. Orengo, “‘DarkSeeds Updated’: Ongoing Investigations into the Nature of Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age Agricultural Economies in the Aegean”
A. Karathanou, “Charred Macrobotanical Remains from the 2nd mil. B.C. Kolonna, Aigina: Some First Results from the Study of Area K10”
S. Gkinoudis and E. Margaritis, “Bronze Age Aegean Agricultural Economy: Project Presentation”
T. Maltas, “Crop Diversity in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean: Regional Trends and their Agroecological Significance”
G. Tsartsidou and L. Vokotopoulos, “Phytolith Evidence on Grapevine Cultivation at the Minoan Agricultural Terraces of Choiromandres, Eastern Crete”
G. Kasapidou and E. Margaritis, “Exploring Plant-related Practices in the Mycenaean Site of Iklaina”
N. C. Andriopoulou, E. Apostolaki, and C. E. Galanaki, “Preservation of Phytoliths from the Sediments of the Protopalatial Settlement of Agriana, North-Central Crete”
L. Picornell-Gelabert, M. Ntinou, T. Brogan, A. Livarda, C. H. Sophianou, and J. Soles, “The Role of Trees in Late Minoan East Crete Settlements: An Anthracological Approach”
A. Mavromati, “Bronze Age Vegetation in the Cyclades: A View from the Island Complex of Santorini”

SEAC 2024

On 12-17 November 2024 the XXXI Societé Européenne pour l’Astronomie dans la Culture (SEAC 2024): Skyscapes in the Sun Island will be held in Catania, Sicily. Further information is available at https://www.seac2024catania.com/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. Riorden and A. Orlando, “Archaeoastronomy and Landscape at Troy”
E. Riorden and A. Orlando, “An Early Bronze Age open-air sanctuary at Troy with depiction of Orion constellation”

ASOR 2024

On 20-23 November 2024 the American Schools of Overseas Research Annual Meetings (ASOR 2024) will be held in Boston and hybrid format. Further information is available at https://www.asor.org/am/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Georgiou, “After 1177 BC: The Case of Cyprus”
L. Hitchcock, “This-Integration: When Utopia is Dystopia (aka 1176 BCE)”
E. Cline: Respondent to workshop “What Happened after Collapse? A Panel Discussion on After 1177 BC”
J. R. Chadwick, “Gath of the Philistines, Khirbet Qeiyafa, and the Metheg-ammah of 2 Samuel 8: Observations, Suggestions, and a Unique Proposal”
E. Fuller, “Desolate Shores: Late Bronze Age Aegean Harbours as Heterotopias”
J. Darwin, “Ships, Shells and Cyprus: The Maritime Significance of Late Cypriot Cult at Kition”
J. C. Skinner and A. E. Killebrew, “The Archaeology of Mediterranean Identities in the Erzin, Iskenderun, and Arsuz Plains (Cilicia, Turkey): The Bay of Iskenderun Landscape Archaeology Survey”
L. Meiberg, “A New Examination of the Philistine Pottery from the Weisenfreund Collection in the Hecht Museum”
K. M. Grossman, T. S. Paulette, L. Graham, and A. McCarthy, “Archaeological Research at Makounta-Voules-Mersinoudia, 2023–2024: New Results from a Prehistoric Site on the Northwest Coast of Cyprus”
L. Crewe, “The Bronze Age Settlement of Kissonerga-Skalia”
M. Godsey, T. Landvatter, and B. R. Olson, “Daily Life in a Fortification on Cyprus: Excavations at Pyla-Vigla 2024”
A. M. Wright, “Managing a Sustainable Database for the Excavations at Idalion, Cyprus”
P. M. Fischer, “The Cemetery of the Cosmopolitan Societies of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus: Results from Recent Field Work”
S. Guterman and A. M. Maeir, “Clay Chronicles: The Figurines from Area P at Tell es-Safi/Gath”
E. Anderson, “Mutual Invasions? Moving Beyond Narratives of Takeover and Emulation in the Late Bronze Age Aegean”
B. Davis, “The Origin of Philistia - an Aegean Invasion?”
A. Georgiadou and A. Georgiou, “Maritime Transport Containers from the Region of Paphos: Exploring External Contacts and Exchange Networks in Southwestern Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age”
B. A. Clark, L. Recht, M. Yamasaki, and K. Zeman-Wiśniewska “Pithoi and Bathtubs: Storage and Processing at Erimi-Pitharka”
C. Barnes, G. C. Braun “A Study of Monumental Ashlar Constructions in Late Bronze Age Cyprus”
Z. Chovanec, “Local Vegetation Considerations in Interpreting Analysis of Microbotanical Remains: A View from Ais Giorkis, Cyprus”
G. Bourogiannis, “Phoenician Cult at the Sanctuary of Ayia Irini, Cyprus?”
B. A. Clark, “The Practicalities of a Digital Typology: A Case Study from Erimi-Pitharka”
C. Trent, D. Adams, and A. M. Büyükkarakaya, “Utilizing Two Dental Stress Markers to Infer the Most Stressful Periods of Juvenility at Early Bronze Age Karataş-Semayük”
Ç. Bal and E. Piskin, “The 4.2 ka BP Event in Western Anatolia: Tracing the Impact of Climatic Change”
M. T. Horowitz, “The 2024 Field Season of the Kalavasos-Laroumena and Arkhangelos Archaeological Research Project”
H. Herrick, “‘Getting Plastered!’: Experimental Lime Plaster Production and the Analysis of Late Bronze Age Plaster Floors at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, Cyprus”
E. H. Cline, “The Relentless Search for Atlantis and the Public Perceptive of Ancient Catastrophes”
S. J. Richardson, H. J. Greenfield, and A. M. Maeir, “Scanning, Statistics, and Scrutiny: Digitally Integrating Specialist and Legacy Datasets to Understand the Use of Space in the E5 Strata at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath”
J. Davis, S. R. Stocker, and M. Kilani, “Hathor at the Palace of Nestor in Bronze Age Greece”

ΑΕΠΕΛ4

On 20-23 November 2024 Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στην Πελοπόννησο: η τέταρτη συνάντηση (ΑΕΠΕΛ4) will be held in Kalamata. Further information is available at https://ham.uop.gr/arhaiologiko-ergo-stin-peloponniso-aepel. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
Δ. Χατζηαγγέλου, “Nεολιθικό αγγείο από το σπήλαιο της Κλένιας με γραπτή απόδοση προσώπου στις λαβές του”
Ά. Παπαδημητρίου, “‘Τίρυνθά τε τειχιόεσσα’: Μια μυκηναϊκή ακρόπολη στον 21ο αιώνα”
Α. Κόσσυβα, “Μυκηναίοι στην Ερμιονίδα: Η μαρτυρία των νεκρών”
Σ. Βουτσάκη, “Το Βόρειο Νεκροταφείο στον Άγιο Βασίλειο Λακωνίας: Νέα πορίσματα και νέα ερωτήματα”
Ε. Μπάνου and Δ. Κουτσούμπα, “Νέα δεδομένα για τον βυθισμένο προϊστορικό οικισμό Παυλοπετρίου Ελαφονήσου Λακωνίας”
Ν. Παπαδημητρίου, Ε. Παπακωνσταντίνου, Α. Μπαλιτσάρη, Κ. Νικολέντζος, Μ. Αναστασιάδου, Ο. Μεταξάς, and Φ. Τσεμπερά, “To προϊστορικό νεκροταφείο στη θέση Κλειδί Κάτω Σαμικού Ηλείας”
Χ. Ματζάνας, “Σωρός κρανίων σε αψιδωτό κτήριο της Μέσης/Νεότερης Νεολιθικής και ενδείξεις μεταθανάτιας (;) αποκοπής ανθρώπινων μελών σε νεκροταφείο της Νεολιθικής στον Χελωνάτα Ηλείας”
Χ. Παπούλια, “‘Αρχαιολογική έρευνα επιφανείας στην Άνω Μεσσηνία (2021-2025)’: τεχνολογία λαξευμένου λίθου από υπαίθριες θέσεις της BA Μεσσηνίας”
Ε. Ζυμή, Α. Μπάνου, Μ. Ξανθοπούλου, Γ. Μαλαπέρδας, Ε. Μηλίτση-Κεχαγιά, and Μ. Κάππας, “‘Αρχαιολογική έρευνα επιφανείας στην Άνω Μεσσηνία (2021-2025)’: αρχική επισκόπηση και προκαταρκτικά αποτελέσματα”
Α.-Χ. Νικόλαρου, “Κέρατα καθοσιώσεως: Ένα μινωικό σύμβολο στη μυκηναϊκή Πελοπόννησο”
Γ. Γρηγορακάκης and Ε. Παπαφλωράτου, “Η Πρώιμη Εποχή του Σιδήρου στην Κυνουρία: Το νεκροταφείο στη θέση ‘Μάκρος’”
Ε. Σαρρή, Χ. Αντωνιάδης, Χ. Τζανετέα, and Σ. Ψυχογυιός, “Εργασίες ανάδειξης του αρχαιολογικού χώρου της Λέρνας: πεπραγμένα και προοπτικές”

Status

On 28-29 November 2024 an online symposium entitled Decoding Representations of Status in the Bronze Age Aegean: Patterns, definitions and interpretations will be held via Zoom, hosted by the Dokuz Eylül University Archaeology and Archeometry Application and Research Center in Türkiye and the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens. Further information is available at https://www.iihsa.ie/events/symposium-decoding-representations-of-status-in-the-bronze-age-aegean-patterns-definitions-and-interpretations. The program will be:
C. De Gregorio, “Reassessing Social Distinctions: Ceramic Motifs and Elite Symbolism in Southern Crete’s Tholos Tombs during the Prepalatial to Protopalatial Transition”
I. Kostopoulou, “Signs of Status? Imported Pottery and Social Structure at Pyla-Kokkinokremos”
S. Spanos, “Koukounaries. The pictorial vase painting and the manifestation of status”
L. Balogianni, “Approaching aspects of status through pottery analysis: the case of the Zakros palace”
E. Gerontakou and M. Kyritsi, “Religious or/and political? Display of status through emblematic symbols from the Minoan palace of Zakros”
L. Phialon, V. Aravantinos, and E. Tsota, “Some observations on the depiction of ‘horns of consecration’ on larnakes from Tanagra in Boeotia”
V. Pliatsika, “Earth to earth. Clay figurines from the Atreus tholos tomb at Mycenae”
B. R. Jones, “Decoding the Status of the Ivory Triad from Mycenae: A Re-evaluation of its Hairstyles, Garments, and Poses”
N. Antognelli Michel, “Status of divinity for an interpretation of the ivory head from the cult centre at Mycenae as a goddess statuette”
N. Akıllı, “Status symbol objects in the Early Bronze Age graves of Western Anatolia and the Aegean region”
M. Tsipopoulou, “‘Διαχωρίζοντας την ήρα από το σταρι’. Τwo attempts at status differentiation in the Early and late Prepalatial phases of the elite necropolis at Petras, Siteia”
G. Grigorakakis, E. Papafloratou, and E. Vika, “Beyond warriors: a burial with weapons in LBA Kefalonia”
C. Zikidi, “Silent Echoes: Status and the Politicisation of Death during the Late Helladic period in Messenia (Greece)”
K. Paschalidis, “Cups of blessing. Decoding the pattern of men with weapons and drinking vessels in the LBA Aegean”
D. M. Wheeler, “Archive and Repertoire in the Mycenaean Funeral”
S. Mills, “Power and status in the Argolid in the Late Helladic III period”
Ö. Çelik and Z. Derin, “Indicators of the Existence of Organizational Management at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium BCE: The Case of Yassıtepe Höyüğü”
J. Meier, “Status and Surplus from Suids at Petsas House, Mycenae”
L. Platon and A. Salichou, “Status in structure: a view from the palatial and domestic architecture of Minoan Zakros”
N. Bovoleti Ayash, “Insights of the Archaeological Implementation of the so- called Sanctuary of Koumasa”
A. Pefani, “Wall-paintings in their architectural environment: unraveling socio- political strategies through sensorial impact at the palace of Pylos”
H. Oniz, “Kumluca Bronze Age Shipwreck excavation – Antalya/Türkiye”
S. Dimaki, M.-C. Staikou, and Eleni Filippaki, “Metal objects from Late Helladic burials in Kalapodi, Phtiotis, Central Greece: symbols of status and wealth”
S. Aulsebrook, “Metals = Status: The Fundamental Law of the Mycenaean World?”
A. M. Vergaki, “Feasts as Rituals of Status: The case of Trypiti and Koumasa on the Southern Cretan Mountains”
T. S. Andreovits, “Shaping gender and status performances in Minoan seal imagery”
I. G. Worrall, “Interpreting Colour: The use of White in Late Bronze Age Aegean Wall Art”
K. Voutsa, “More than a bead: adding symbolic character to a small, semi- precious stone”
K. Nikita, “The power of technology, aesthetics and possession: the combination of glass with gold for the Early Mycenaean elites”
C. Kekes, “Nonverbal expression of status in the Bronze Age Aegean”
U. Thaler, “Competitive conformity. Prestige, self-limiting ambition and the fragility of power”
V. Petrakis, “Exploring nuances of status in the Third Palace Period Aegean: palatial agents in context”
D. Papadimitriou, “Absent Elites”
H. Kan, “Kings and Great Kings of the Mediterranean”
J. Kelder, “Empire Lost. On the status of the Ahhiyawan ‘LUGAL.GAL’ and the state of academic debate”
M. A. Erdem and Z. Derin, “The presence of the elites in Western Anatolia in the 2nd Millenium BC finds from İzmir Yassıtepe”
E. Kortanoğlu, “Narrative Production Processes in the Construction of Ancient Greek Cultural Chronology”

Inequality

On 28-29 November 2024 a conference entitled Social and Gender Inequality in Early Iron Age Greece will be held in Vienna. Further information is available at https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/events/event-detail/social-and-gender-inequality-in-early-iron-age-greece-1-1. The program will be:
S. Gimatzidis, “Introduction to the Social and Gender Inequality in Early Greece”
H. van Wees, “Textual and material evidence for social inequality: minding the gap”
B. A. Olsen, “Gender and Coming-of-Age Rituals in the Early Iron Age: Archaeology vs Historical Memory”
D. Lyons, “Who Wields the Shuttle?: Women's Agency in Light of the New Materialism”
J. Whitley, “From warriors to heroes: Early Iron Age weapon burial rituals and narratives of the self”
S. C. Murray, “Socio-Economic Change, Gender, and Labor Allocation in the Aegean Early Iron Age”
J. M. Luce, “The funerary 'sequence' in Iron Age Greece, between community and society”
O. Mariaud, “Formal burial or formal cemetery? Returning to the burial customs, monuments and social inequality of Early Iron Age Greece”
S. Gimatzidis, “Social contradictions in central Greece during the Early Iron Age”
M. Rönnberg, “Warriors, Rich Ladies and Invisible Children? Social and Gender Differentiation at Athenian Gravesites during the Early Iron Age”
M. Haysom, “Cretan Women Across the Iron Age”
M. D’Acunto, “Social and Gender Inequality in Early Iron Age and Early Archaic Dodecanese”
G. Papasavvas, “People and objects on the move: Migrating memories, antiques, and social power in Early Iron Age Cyprus”
F. Bernstein, “Social Inequality and its Persistence: A Look at the Early Colonial World of the Greeks”
A. Esposito, “Craft practices and Mediterranean trade networks: an overview of women and socio-economic relations in Italy (IXth-VIth centuries BC)”
F. Quondam, “A view from the West: Gender and Social Inequalities in Early Iron Age and Archaic Age Southern Italy”
M. Pacciarelli, “Final Bronze and Early Iron Age (1050–740 BC) Central Mediterranean: evidence of social inequalities”
A. Naso, “Social and Gender (In)equality in Iron Age and Orientalizing Etruria”
S. Gimatzidis, “Social contradictions in central Greece during the Early Iron Age”
M. Rönnberg, “Warriors, Rich Ladies and Invisible Children? Social and Gender Differentiation at Athenian Gravesites during the Early Iron Age”
S. Sherratt, “The possible effects of economic activity in a wider Mediterranean context on social relations in Early Iron Age Greece”
T. Hodos, “Interpreting Social Inequalities in Iron Age Greece via Multiple Scales of Analysis”

Archaeological Science

On 29 November 2024 an international conference entitled Half a Century of Archaeological Science in Greece will be held at the British School at Athens, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Marc and Ismene Fitch Laboratory for Archaeological Science. Further information is available at https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/fitchanniversaryconference2024/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
K. Harvati, V. Tourloukis, E. Panagopoulou, and P. Karkanas, “Paleolithic dispersals, survivals and population contacts: uncovering human evolution in Greece”
P. Karkanas, “Archaeological soil and sediment microstratigraphy: understanding how archaeological sites are formed”
N. Galanidou, D. Sakellariou, and P. Tsakanikou, “Aegean in the spotlight. A new paradigm for reconstructing early Palaeolithic dispersals, settlement, and landscapes of habit”
A. Krahtopoulou, R. Veropoulidou, C. Frederick, H. A. Orengo, S. Riera-Mora, C. Knappett, and A. Livarda, “Coastal landscapes at Palaikastro, eastern Crete, from the Late Neolithic to the Bronze Age and historical periods”
M. Ntinou, A. Mavromati, and P. M. Theodosaki, “Celebration time, come on: anthracological studies in Greece, looking back, looking ahead”
G. Jones and A. Bogaard, “Linking present and past farming landscapes through archaeobotany”
E. Weiberg, M. Finne, and A. Bonnier, “Climate change and landscape histories in the Aegean”
E. Kiriatzi, C. Gardner, E. Marzec, S. Menelaou, and N. Mueller, “Approaching the past through multiscale analysis of Ceramic Landscapes”
A. Bevan, “On the key-holes and broad-brushes of landscape history”
N. Galanidou, D. Sakellariou, and P. Tsakanikou, “Aegean in the spotlight. A new paradigm for reconstructing early Palaeolithic dispersals, settlement, and landscapes of habit”
E. Skourtanioti, “Ancient DNA research in the Aegean: recent findings and future perspectives”
E. Nikita, “Paleomobility studies in the Aegean: where do we stand and where are we heading?”
B. Lis and E. Kiriatzi, “Tracing craftspeople mobility in the Aegean – past, present and future”
C. Knappett, I. Nikolakopoulou, and J. Hilditch, “Models of movement: integrating networks with multidimensional ceramic data”
T. Valamoti, “Plants and culinary practices in the prehistory and history of the Aegean”
E. Margaritis, “The role of viticulture and wine production in the social revolutions of the third millennium BCE Aegean”
P. Halstead and V. Isaakidou, “Understanding everyday life in ancient Greece: the contribution of zooarchaeology”
M. Roumpou, C. Heron, N. Kalogeropoulos, V. Kilikoglou, S. Boyatzis, and D. Anglos, “Understanding various aspects of everyday life through the analysis of organic residues”
H. Procopiou, “Techniques, senses and emotions: the case study of stone polishing in the prehistoric Aegean”
M. Choleva, T. Ogawa, N. Petropoulos, N. Mueller, and E. Kiriatzi, “Making the everyday world: an anthropological interdisciplinary approach to artefacts and crafts”
C. Renfrew, M. J. Boyd, E. Margaritis, D. Athanasoulis, N. Brodie, R. Campbell, G. Gavalas, M. Gkouma, B. Hartzler, J. Herbst, J. Hilditch, H. Indgjerd, I. Legaki, N. Meyer, I. Moutafi, and J. Wright, “Keros and the Small Cyclades: a twenty-first century approach to research design, field methodology, interdisciplinary research, and answering big questions from granular connected data”
E. Nodarou, D. Mylona, C. Sofianou, and T. Brogan, “Inter-disciplinarity in action: the case of Neopalatial Papadiokampos in east Crete”
S. Triantafyllou, N. Papakonstantinou, and S. Kiorpe, “Experiencing life histories in the prehistoric Aegean: old trends and new perspectives from the study of human remains”