On 12 November 2020 proposals for sessions are due for the 27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists: Widening Horizons (EAA AM 2021), to be held in Kiel, Germany on 8-11 September 2021. From 16 December 2020 until 11 February 2021 paper and poster abstract submission will be open; on 22 April 2021 registration and payment is due from presenters. Further information and forms are available at https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2021. The meeting will consist of sessions, round tables, and poster presentations focusing on the following main themes: Widening horizons through human-environment interconnections Pandemics and climate change: responses to global challenges The new normality of heritage management and museums in post-Covid times Globalisation and archaeology Assembling archaeological theory and the archaeological sciences Material culture studies and societies From global to local: Baltic-Pontic studies
‘Modern’ Women of the Past?
On 30 November 2020 abstracts (200 words maximum for papers of 15 minutes length) are due for an online conference entitled ‘Modern’ Women of the Past? Unearthing Gender and Antiquity, to be on 5-6 March 2021, hosted by the AAIA, CCANESA, AWAWS, CCWM and the University of Sydney Departments of Archaeology and Classics & Ancient History. Further information is available at https://www.awaws.org/news/call-for-papers-modern-women-of-the-past-unearthing-gender-and-antiquity.
DIG 2021
On 15 January 2021 abstracts (300 words maximum) are due for the 9th Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference (DIG 2021), to be held on 17-21 September 2021 at the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal either in-person or virtually. Further information is available at https://dig2021.icarehb.com/wp/.
The University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of Classical Studies has announced the following schedule of Mycenaean Seminars for 2020-2021. From October through January, the lectures will be held online; from February through May, the lectures are scheduled to take place in the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Further information is available at https://ics.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/Mycenaean%20Seminar%202020-21_final.pdf The first four seminars will take place online via Zoom. Each seminar will be set up as a separate meeting on Zoom with a unique link, ID and password. It will be necessary for all attendees to register in advance by visiting the ICS events web page https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events which lists all events in date order and clicking on the ‘Book now’ button for the Seminar you are interested in. An email will be sent to each person booking with joining details for the event on Zoom. It is not necessary to download the Zoom application or to have a Zoom account to participate in the seminar. Clicking on the event link will bring up a prompt to open the Zoom application or to join by clicking on ‘start from your browser’. If you encounter any issues, please contact Valerie James: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. To book a place for our first seminar, please follow the link: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22941 We look forward to seeing you! 14 October 2020: J. Mokrisova, “Crossing Borders, Re-thinking Paradigms: Aegean-Anatolian Interactions in the Late Bronze Age” (online) 11 November 2020: N. Papadimitriou, “From Wessex to Mycenae via l’Armorique? An old question under the light of goldworking technologies” (online) 2 December 2020: V. Isaakidou, “Of animals and humans on prehistoric Crete: interdisciplinary approaches to animal exploitation” (online) 13 January 2021: C. Palyvou, “‘Great Expectations’. What can architecture tell us about the past?” 10 February 2021: T. Brogan, “Purple Production on Chryssi Island in the Bronze Age” 10 March 2021: R. Orgeolet, “Layers of memory. 2009-2019: Ten years of excavations and research at Kirrha (Phocis, Greece)” 12 May 2021: S. R. Stocker and J. L. Davis, “Tales from Nestor’s Crypt: Pylos 2015-2020”
Archaeological Science Methods
On 12-14 October 2020 a workshop entitled Archaeological Science Methods in the Field and in the Laboratory: What, How, and Why will be held by the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center (STARC) at the Cyprus Institute together with the University of Cambridge and KU Leuven to advance Archaeological Science research in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (EMME). The workshop can be attended as an online event or in person after expression of interest subject to limitations in place regarding COVID-19; for in-person attendance, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Further information and links to the online platforms are available at https://www.cyi.ac.cy/index.php/component/k2/archaeological-science-methods-in-the-field-and-in-the-laboratory-what-how-and-why.html.
Sixty Years of Exploring Prehistoric Kea
On 22 October 2020 a webinar entitled Sixty Years of Exploring Prehistoric Kea: A celebration of John L. Caskey’s excavations at Ayia Irini will be held at noon EST, 7:00 P.M. Athens time. Presenters will include Jenifer Neils, Jack Davis, Miriam Caskey, Lyvia Morgan, Natalie Abell, and Kostantinos Tzortzinis. Further information and a registration form is available at https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/events/details/sixty-years-exploring-prehistoric-kea.
My thanks to everyone who has sent references to or digital copies of publications not previously included in the Nestor database. Please keep them coming! I tender my deep gratitude to the librarians of the John Miller Burnam Classical Library at the University of Cincinnati — Rebecka Lindau, Mike Braunlin, and Shannan Stewart — sine quibus non.
We have received the following note from Professor John Bennet (BSA) and Dr. Yannis Galanakis (Cambridge): “We are delighted to announce the launch of the digital Mycenae Archive in celebration of the centenary of British excavations at the renowned Bronze Age site. It draws upon the core collection in the Archive of the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge and two collections from the Archive of the British School at Athens (BSA): the Mycenae Excavation Records and part of its BSA-Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (SPHS) Image Collection. The Mycenae Archive consists of notebooks, drawings, plans and photographs of the archaeological endeavours of the team of the BSA at Mycenae in 1920-1923, 1939 and 1950-1957 under the directorship of Alan John Bayard Wace (1879-1957), BSA Director (1914-23). All these documents have been digitised and reunited to be available as a resource for exploring Mycenae in the University of Cambridge Digital Library: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/mycenae. The material held at the BSA is also available via the School’s Digital Collections website https://digital.bsa.ac.uk/ Happy Browsing!” Please send queries about the Archives at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; please send queries about the BSA Archives to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Photographs in the CMS series
We also reprint this note from Professor Ingo Pini regarding the photographs in the CMS series: “To all colleagues interested in the study of Minoan and Helladic seals, signet rings and sealings: In recent years I undertook the time-consuming effort to improve the quality of the photographs of original seals, signet rings and sealings as well as that of modern impressions. Many new photographs of impressions were made. In addition a better quality of the already existing photographs as published in the volumes of the CMS series was achieved by using Photoshop. Colleagues should now use the photographs of ARACHNE (https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Farachne.uni-koeln.de%2Fdrupal%2F&data=02%7C01%7Caegeanet%40lists.ku.edu%7C24fe9d22f9b34433407708d842ba4439%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C1%7C637332715075810355&sdata=As5juMHPUnVIk0khevP2WFMpmvgCvtjQEvgHejxiR%2BE%3D&reserved=0) or get scans, at present from Professor Diamantis Panagiotopoulos at Heidelberg University, Faculty of Philosophy (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). In the near future a small amount of colour photographs will be available, too."
