CAA 2025

On 5-9 May 2025 the 52nd Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2025). Digital Horizons: Embracing Heritage in an Evolving World will be held in Athens, Greece. Further information is available at https://2025.caaconference.org/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
T. S. Andreovits, “Bridging 3D Documentation and Traditional Methods in the Study of Miniature Objects: A Case Study of Human Body Representations on Bronze Age Aegean Seals”
P. Cuthbertson, P. Tsakanikou, S. Kübler, T. Ullmann, and N. Galanidou, “Complexity at what scale? A quantitive multi-scalar approach to topographic complexity at the Acheulean Site of Rodafnidia (Lesbos, NE Aegean)”
A. Michalopoulou, “Spatial Interactions and Socio-Political Organization in Late Helladic Messenia: A Computational Modeling Approach”
B. Keramida, “Modelling Settlement Dynamics and Interaction: Exploring the Landscape of the Bronze Age North-East Peloponnese”
Q. Drillat, “Divisions and Connections in First Millennium BC Central Crete: A Geospatial Approach to Borderlands”
G. Nekhrizov, J. Tzvetkova, V. Gencheva, and N. Kecheva, “Mountains in Scales: Point Process Models of Early Iron Age Sites in Southeastern Bulgaria”
A. Xenaki, “Point Process Modelling: Applications, Challenges, and Limitations of Exploring Human-Landscape Relations in Dikte (Eastern Crete)”
G. Apostolou, “A gate to the past: Systematising the use of historical aerial imagery to explore montane cultural landscapes in Greece”
A. Sarris, A. Agapiou, A. Vionis, M.-A. Vella, and F. Chelazzi, “Exploring the Cultural Landscapes of Xeros River Valley in Cyprus through a Manifold Approach”
N. Ayash, “The Minoan Central Asterousia as a Case of DEM-Aided GIS Study of Network Connectivity”
R. Bieńkowski, D. Buell, D. and A. Kaliszewska, “A Diachronic (Final Neolithic – Venetian) GIS Analysis of Settlement Patterns in the Agios Nicolaos Area of East Crete”
E. E. Papadopoulou, S. Proestakis, L. Moysidou, G. Tataris, N. Soulakellis, P.Tsakanikou, N. Galanidou, “Advanced 3D Mapping and Documentation of the Rodafnidia Archaeological Excavation in Lesvos Using UAV, TLS, and LiDAR Technologies”
M. Konstantakis, M. Larentzakis, K. Kaza, V. Antonopoulou, G. Daskalaki, I. Gourtzioumi, “Creating a Digital Twin of the Early Helladic Cemetery of Asteria Glyfadas: Challenges and Innovations in Field Documentation”
N. Sepetzoglou, “Reconstructing Aegean Bronze Age wall paintings through drawing. From using watercolors to digital images. What’s next?”
C. Scott, “Reflecting on 10 Years at Kaymakçı: Institutional Memory and Bespoke Solutions in Archaeological Data Management”
E. Vereketi, E. Paliou, V. Petrakis, and Y. Papadatos, “Unraveling Identities: A GIS-Based Approach to Weapon Burials and Maritime Networks in Bronze Age Western Greece”
C. Papoulia, A. Chliaoutakis, P. Zervoudakis, and N. Papadopoulos, “Integrating Agent-Based Modelling and Experimental Archaeology for the study of Middle Palaeolithic sea-crossing scenarios. The Inner Ionian Sea Archipelago as a case study”
P. Tsakanikou, N. Galanidou, and S. Kübler, “Modelling the landscape of the Acheulean activity on Lesvos Island, Greece through an affordance-based GIS approach”
A. Argyrou, M. Christoforou, A. Papakonstantinou, D. Alexakis, A. Agapiou, A. Vionis, Athanasios, “Utilizing Low-Altitude Imagery and Weak Learner Algorithms for the Detection of Archaeological Surface Ceramics: The Kophinou case study”
R. Rivers, T. Evans, P. Gheorghiade, and C. Knappett, “Ariadne Redux”
K. Venieri, G. Apostolou, A. Garcia-Molsosa, M. Georgiadis, A. Krahtopoulou, and H. Orengo, “‘From the Mountains to the Plains’: Surveying diverse cultural landscapes in central and northern Greece using the Qfield mobile phone application”
P. Chrysafakoglou, K. Sgouropoulos, M. Dębiec, M. Tasaklaki, and D. Urem-Kotsou, “What’s up in the hood? Digital surface survey of the Thracian landscape around the Neolithic site of Paradimi”

Κέα-Κύθνος ΙΙ

On 10-14 May 2025 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:
Α. Σάμψων, “Ο Mαρουλάς της Κύθνου. Ο αρχαιότερος οικισμός του Αιγαίου”
Γ. Μπασιάκος, Ε. Φιλιππάκη, and Μ. Γεωργακοπούλου†, “Πρώιμες αιγαιακές μεταλλουργικές κάμινοι στην Κύθνο και σε άλλες θέσεις: Παλαιοτεχνολογικές συσχετίσεις”
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 and N. Abell, “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)”
N. Mourtzas and E. Kolaiti, “Changes in the coastal landscape of the Cyclades over the last 6,000 years”

ASWA XV

On 25-28 May 2025 the XVIth International meeting of the ICAZ Working Group “Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas” (ASWA XV) will be held in Munich. Further information is available at https://spm.snsb.de/staatssammlung-fuer-palaeoanatomie-muenchen/icaz-working-group-archaeozoology-of-southwest-asia-and-adjacent-areas/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
S. Özlem, “Human-Animal Dynamics in Neolithic Anatolia: A Zooarchaeological Study of Suluin Cave in the Lakes District”
P. Crabtree and D. V. Campana, “Hunting in Neolithic and Chalcolithic Cappadocia: Evidence from Tepecik”
B. Arbuckle, H. Ekmen, and G. Ekmen, “Animals in the Kaska lands: Naturecultures, Social Zooarchaeology, and Faunal Remains from Inönü Cave, NW Türkiye”