Latest

On 24-26 March 2017 a conference entitled Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies Conference (SSB 2017) will be held at the University of Southampton, U.K. Further information is available at https://www.sssbconference.co.uk/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

S. Kiorpe, "Commingled entities: the secondary manipulation of the dead in Early Bronze Age House Tomb 5, Kephala Petras, Siteia, Crete"

SAA2017

On 29 March - 2 April 2017 the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeologists (SAA2017) will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia. Further information is available at http://www.saa.org/AbouttheSociety/AnnualMeeting/tabid/138/Default.aspx. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

L. Gonzalez Carretero and D. Q. Fuller, "9,000-Year-Old Cereal Meals: New Methods for the Analysis of Charred Food Remains from Çatalhöyük East (Turkey)"

B. Tung, "Excavation Narratives and Reflexive Practices at Çatalhöyük"

D. Lukas and C. Engel, "Changing Technologies, Changing Practices: The Transformation of the Çatalhöyük Research Database"

On 6 April 2017 a workshop entitled Ritualizing Funerary Practices in the Prehistoric Aegean: acts of transforming and viewing the human body will be held by the Department of Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in collaboration with the Institute of Classical Archaeology of the University of Heidelberg. Further information is available at http://www.hist.auth.gr/el/content/%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B1-ritualizing-funerary-practices-prehistoric-aegean-06042017. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

S. Triantaphyllou and D. Panagiotopoulos, "Ritualizing death: acts of transforming and viewing the human body"

G. Panagopoulou, "Αspects of spatial organization using the Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The example of the manipulation of the dead in Neolithic Greek Macedonia"

A. Ion, "Broken bodies: addressing the dynamics of postmortem depositions in Neolithic settlements from the Balkan area"

CAARI Conference

On 17-19 February 2017 the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) Conference. Environment, Landscape and Society: Diachronic Perspectives on Settlement Patterns in Cyprus was held in Nicosia, Cyprus. Further information is available at http://caari.org/uncategorized/environment-landscape-and-society-diachronic-perspectives-on-settlement-patterns-in-cyprus/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

J. C. Wright, "The longue durée: the piedmont of the Corinthia and cycles of regional occupation"

C. McCartney, "Ayia Varvara Asprokremmos, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A taskscape on the Yialias River in central Cyprus: implications of focused resource exploitation for understanding early connections between Cyprus and the mainland"

P. Mylona, B. Devillers, and J.-D. Vigne, "Reconstructing the palaeoenvironment in southern Cyprus and its interaction with the Neolithic humans: the case of Klimonas (PPNA)"

CALIBRA

The Cambridge Mycenaean Epigraphy Group has announced the launch of CALIBRA: the Cambridge Linear B Research Archive (http://calibra.classics.cam.ac.uk/). The archive currently hosts a searchable database of photographs of the Linear B tablets from Pylos (digitised and made available for personal academic use by kind permission of the University of Cincinnati; users are required to create an individual account in order to access the photographs). More information is available from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or at http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/Research/projects/mycep/.

  1. Calls for Papers
  2. Future Lectures and Conferences
  3. In Poseidons Realm XXII
  4. Past Lectures and Conferences