Interactions-Transmission-Transformation
On 31 October-3 November 2024 a conference entitled Interactions-Transmission-Transformation: Long-distance Connections in Metal Ages of South-eastern Europe was held at the Domus Scientiarum Viminacium, Serbia. Further information is available at https://rai.ai.ac.rs/bitstream/id/5154/3aps.pdf. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
K. Tsampa, A.G. Karydas, M. J. Boyd, and C. Renfrew, “Gold Crafting in the Aegean: Insights from Keros”
B. Heeb, “How to build a rampart – On the development of complex fortifications in Bronze Age (south-eastern) Europe”
B. Molloy, “Bronze Age megaforts of the south Pannonian Plain in their temporal and social context: An argument against proto-urbanism and for contra-urbanism in light of long-term macroculture traditions and neighbouring societies”
V. Kiss, “Mobility and trade: long-distance connections in the western part of the Carpathian basin at the dawn of the 2nd millennium”
S. Gimatzidis, “Archaeological imperialism and cultural hegemony in Balkan archaeology”
P. Zafeiriadis, Ž. Tankosić, and F. Mavridis, “At Aegean Crossroads: Southern Euboea in the Bronze Age”
A Deep Dive into the Kouris Valley
On 21 November 2024 an open workshop entitled A Deep Dive into the Kouris Valley: Past, Present and Future Research Perspective was held by the Erimi Archaeological Project at the Università di Siena. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1093709989421363&id=100063471176954&_rdr. The program was:
E. Mantzourani, “The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) excavation at Kantou-Kouphovounos: thirty-two years ago”
Y. Voskos, “Revisiting the ‘type sites’ of Kouris Valley: The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Cyprus Project (NCCP)”
G. Vavouranakis and Y. Voskos, “Back to the Future: Chalcolithic Erimi Pamboula under reconsideration”
F. Constantinou, “(Re)Discovering Chalcolithic Erimi: The case of Erimi Pampoula plot 313 and plot 568”
P. Christofi, “Erimi Bamboula: the 2011-2012 excavations. Topography, findings and historical continuity”
V. Stivarou, “From the Chalcolithic to the Late Bronze Age, a summary of three rescue excavations at Erimi”
D. Aristotelous, “Trial and rescue excavations at Erimi — the necropolis of Erimi-Kafkalla”
L. Bombardieri, “Erimi. A dynamic community in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus”
K. Papanikolaou, “Erimi-Pitharka: A Late Bronze Age settlement”
L. Recht and K. Zeman-Wisniewska, “New excavations at Late Bronze Age Erimi-Pitharka”
S. Hadjisavvas, “Alassa: A Regional Center of Alasia”
M. Amadio, “Erimi under the Microscope. Results and perspectives of microanalytic approaches to Middle Bronze Age Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou”
S. Meneleaou, “Identifying strategies for pottery manufacture, consumption, and circulation at Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou, through thin-section petrography”
S. Ghislandi and I. Rellini, “The EartHeritage Project and the paleoenvironmental studies in the Kouris valley”
A. Vandelli, T. Scarano, G. Baratti, and L. Bombardieri, “The LINK Project. An archaeological survey of the middle and upper Kouris valley. 2023-2024 preliminary results”
PoCA 2024
On 21-23 November 2024 the 21st Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology Meeting (PoCA 2024) was held at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Further information is available at https://pocadublin24.wordpress.com/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
E. Mavros, “Tactics of Power Establishment and Economic Stabilization in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Case of Alassa in Kouris Watershed”
D. Gavriil, “‘Death Becomes Them’: The Interplay of Domestic and Funerary Taskscapes in the Materialization of Burial Rituals at Alassa-Pano Mantilaris”
D. Papageorgiou, “Just Another Hole in the Ground? Reconsidering Pit/Shaft Graves in Palaepaphos During the Late Bronze Age”
C. Barnes and G. Braun, “Architectural Survey and Energetic Analysis of Late Bronze Age Ashlar Constructions on Cyprus”
E. de Koning, “The Crux of the Cruciform: Childbirth and the Iconography of Chalcolithic Cypriot Figurines”
A. Ladas, “Intriguing Inscribed Ship Representation at Palaepaphos: The New Data from the Excavation at Marchello’s Plateau”
T. Humphrey, “Tools of Trade? Cylinder Seals and Mercantile Identities in Late Bronze Age Cyprus”
F. Hájek, “Shell Exploitation and Marine Adaptation at the Late Neolithic Site of Paralimni Nissia, Cyprus”
H. Cliffen, “Fifty Shades of Clay: An Examination of Pottery Manufacture in the Late Bronze Age Through the Non-Destructive X-Radiographic and pXRF Analysis of Ceramics”
B. Clark and L. Recht, “Stratigraphic Insights from Erimi-Pitharka: LC IIC-IIIA Ceramic Sequences”