ScapeCon 8

On 28–29 May 2026 the 8th Ιnternational Conference of ScapeCon: No Escape: Timing. Life cycles, seasonality and human activities in the Bronze Age Aegean (ScapeCon 8) was held at the Università di Catania. Further information is available at https://scapecon8.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/7?fbclid=IwY2xjawSwuphleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeF9fzuGXJ0-DWrvQJuWdfreFDJO8z4byEKT9fNyWUTog3WeJbzuqPD4TKLsI_aem_ascPnKVQLEycwY40Fw1VIQ. The program was:
A. Brysbaert, “‘Like Sands through the Hourglass’. Seasons and Time as Resources in LBA Aegean Construction and Related Crafts”
C. Chiara, “Time and Living Spaces: Settlement Choices, Architectural and Topographical Solutions, and Relationships between Complementary Settlements in Response to Seasonal Climate Change in Minoan Villas”
M. Chiricallo, “Designing for Seasonal Rainfall? Sunken Catch Basins and Roof Configuration in Minoan Architecture”
M. Amadio and L. Bombardieri, “In Step with the Seasons: Earthen Architecture as an Adaptive Strategy to Climate and Social Changes in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus”
A. Peterková, “Enough Time to Build? An Energetic Study of Bronze Age Domestic Architecture in the Eastern Aegean Islands and Western Anatolia”
F. Buscemi, M. Figuera, and T. Messina, “From Quarry to Palace: Insights into Labour Time-Costs at the Late Bronze Age Palace of Phaistos”
C. Sofianou, T. Brogan, M. Eaby, and D. Mylona, “Evidence for Seasonality in the Bronze Age Settlement on Chryssi off the Coast of Crete”
G. Salvadori and L. F. Kaiser, “Living in an Older Frame: Temporal Rhythms and Settlement Change at Mochlos LM III”
E. Angeli, “Repairing Time: Post-Firing Perforations and the Temporal Habitus of Neolithic Pottery from Halai, East Locris (Central Greece)”
G. Ntzoufras, “Seasonality, Transhumance and Economic Transformations in Minoan Crete: The Evidence from the Uplands”
A. Karagianni, “Lines of Time, Cycles of Temporality: Interweaving Daily and Ritual Times at Final Palatial Knossos Based on Textual and Archaeological Data”
G. I. Lefa and S. M. Valamoti, “Tracing the Cycles of Time through the Integration of Archaeobotanical Remains and Linear B Texts: The Palace of Nestor as a Case Study”
E. Platania and F. Toscano, “Rhadamanthys’ Thread: Time and Space of Textile Production from Flock to Yarn at Phaistos”
L. E. Wilson, “Lamps and a Hearth: Using the Material Remains of Lighting to Study Social Activities in the Plateia Meïdani at Kastelli, Pediada, Crete”
S. Trucolo, “Light Devices in Context from Phaistos in the Protopalatial Period (1900-1700 BC): Living between Daily Activities and Ritual Practices”
B. Rueff, “Lighting Day and Night: Temporal Rhythms and Artificial Illumination in Minoan Domestic Space”
K. Lehmann, “Street Light: Seasonal Sun and Shadow in Neopalatial Gournia”
V. Kyriakidis, “Constellations and the Supernatural in Neopalatial Seal Iconography”
S. Guglielmino, “A Multidisciplinary Re-evaluation of Celestial Navigation in the Late Bronze Age Aegean”
A. Querci and C. Caleo, “Time, Distance, and Late Minoan Circulation: The Knossos-Kommos Sea-Route”
A. B. Dolino, “Ἐν δ᾽ὀπίσω Σκορπίος: Notes for a Reinterpretation of the Gold Pendant from Haghia Triada”
T. S. Andreovits, “Seasonality and Embodied Social Practice in Minoan Glyptic Imagery”
J. Komitzas, “Turning the Past into Memory: The Problematics of Time on Mycenaean Human Imagery”
L. Tapinos, “Heterotopia and Liminal Frames: The Running Spiral in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean”
F. Nani and S. Vitale, “Time After Time: Late Helladic IIA Aeginetan-Mycenaean Interaction through the Lenses of Repeated Feasting Practices at Mitrou, East Lokris”
A. Fatsi, “All in Good Time: Months, Religion and Production Cycles in the Mycenaean Palace Record”
S. Firtikiadou, “Aparchae: Seasonal Religious Offerings in the Creto-Mycenaean World”
I. Högner, R. Friedrich, and P. W. Stockhammer, “Revealing Secondary Practices in Mycenaean Chamber Tombs through Chronological Divergence of Skeletal Material and Finds”
N. B. Ayash, “No Escape from the Times of the Dead: Revisiting the Spatial Arrangement and Orientations of Minoan Tholoi in Relation to their Functionality”
J. Mahl, “Time after Death: The South-Central Cretan Tholoi Annexes as Physical Markers of Passage from Individual to Ancestor”