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On 4-5 November 2016 the 23rd Neolithic Seminar: From Chronos to Chronologies. Radiocarbon Dating and Chronological Modelling of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Temporality in Eurasia will be held at the Department of Archaeology, Ljubljana University, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Further information is available at http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/arheologija/1/Dejavnosti/Konference-in-posveti/Neolitski-seminarji__.aspx. Papers of interest to

Y. Maniatis and K. Kotsakis, "Tracing the spreading of neolithisation in the Aegean with radiocarbon dating"

A. Reingruber, "Neolithic Thessaly: radiocarbon dated phases and subphases"

AIA 2017

On 5-8 January 2017 the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA 2017) will be held in Toronto. Further information is available at https://www.archaeological.org/annualmeeting. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

E.-A. Prevedorou, J. E. Buikstra, G. W. Gordon, and K. J. Knudson, "Paleomobility and Paleodiet through Biogeochemistry in Early Bronze Age Attica"

M. Carignano, "Soup's on! Expanding the Picture of Minoan Meals through Functional Analysis of Cooking Pots and Tablewares"

C. McNamee, "The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Using Microbotanical Evidence to Examine Bronze Age Subsistence"

EuroMed 2016

On 31 October-5 November 2016 the 6th International Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EuroMed 2016) was held at the Filoxenia Conference Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus. Further information is available at http://www.euromed2016.eu/index.php. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:

P. Koutsabasis, "Adult and Children User Experience with Leap Motion in Digital Heritage: The Cycladic Sculpture Application"

Mediterranean Archaeological Trust

On 31 January 2017 applications for grants (not normally exceeding £2,000) to assist with the publication of archaeological fieldwork in the Mediterranean world, with possible priority to Bronze Age subjects, are due to the Mediterranean Archaeological Trust. Applicants should complete the application form (downloadable from the MAT web-site: https://sites.google.com/site/medarchtrust/grants), which should be sent by e-mail attachment, to Dr. Jai Clifford-Holmes: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.;
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PeClA 2016

On 1 October 2016 abstracts for papers and posters (500 words) are due for the 5th International Postgraduate Conference Perspectives on Classical Archaeology 2016: New Directions in Classical Archaeology (PeClA 2016), to be held on 1-2 December 2016 at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Abstracts should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

CAA 2017

On 28 October 2016 abstracts for papers and posters (250 words) are due for the 45th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2017): Digital Archaeologies, Material Worlds (Past and Present), to be held on 14-16 March 2017 in Atlanta. Further information is available at http://caaconference.org/.

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