Mobility, Social Integration and Culture Change
On 12-13 June 2025 a workshop entitled Mobility, Social Integration and Culture Change in the Mediterranean Bronze Age was held in in Udine. Further information is available at https://dium.uniud.it/it/notizie-ed-eventi/eventi/2025/6/12/mobility-social-integration-and-culture-change-in-the-mediterranean-bronze-age-workshop-progetto-prin-2020-final-workshop/ Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
G. van Wijngaarden, “Mediterranean Mobility and Connectivity in the Bronze Age: Blind Spots and Promising New Perspectives?”
G. Recchia, “Interacting Societies: Connections and Socio-Cultural Transformations in the 3rd Millennium BC Central Mediterranean”
M. Gori, “Mobility across the Adriatic between the 3rd and the early 2nd millennium BCE”
A. Mercogliano, P. M. Day, M. Gazis, A. Spiroulias, and K. Filis, “Pottery Production in the western Peloponnese between the late 3rd and early 2nd millennia BCE: new evidence and future directions”
S. T. Levi, “Circulation, Innovation, Hybridization: Data and Insights from Archaeometry”
M. Gazis, “East-West and North-South. Ionian-Adriatic Relationships in the Late Bronze Age. The Role of Achaea and Teichos Dymaion”
M. Bettelli, “Variability in Reception and Interpretation of Late Minoan Ceramic Style in Italo-Mycenaean Pottery”
E. Borgna, “Around 1200 BC. Mediterranean Mobility from a Cretan Perspective”
P. Stockhammer, “Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Human Mobility in the Bronze Age Aegean”
K. Aktypi, “Cultural Interaction between western and eastern Mycenaean Achaea... and beyond. An overview of the burial customs from Voudeni, Chalandritsa and Nikoleika”
E. Borgna, G. De Angeli, A. Mercogliano, and A. Verri, “Social and Culture Change at MBA-LBA Trapeza: the Multidisciplinary Project and the Contextual Archaeological Framework”
M. Roumpou, “Investigation of diachronic commemoration rituals at the Trapeza: preliminary observations using a multidisciplinary approach to consumption practices”
Spartan Studies
On 27-29 June 2025 the 1st Local Forum of Spartan Studies. Sparta, Archaeology and Green Tourism: Strategies for the Preservation and Promotion of the Monuments of Laconia was held in in Sparti, Greece. Further information is available at https://dium.uniud.it/it/notizie-ed-eventi/eventi/2025/6/12/mobility-social-integration-and-culture-change-in-the-mediterranean-bronze-age-workshop-progetto-prin-2020-final-workshop/ Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
C. Gallou, “Archaeology as a science of sustainability: The underwater archaeological site at Pavlopetri”