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Aegean Seminar in Zagreb

The Aegean Seminar in Zagreb hosted the following lectures. Further information is available from Helena Tomas at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

13 March 2017: C. Murphy, "Breakable objects designed to last: the case of Minoan peak sanctuary anthropomorphic figurines"

27-28 March 2017: R. Palmer, "Evidence for Wine and Fermented Beverages in the Bronze Age Aegean" and "Deer, Wild Goats and Horn-working in the Linear B Tablets"

CAA 2017

On 14-16 March 2017 the 45th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2017): Digital Archaeologies, Material Worlds (Past and Present) was held in Atlanta, GA. Further information is available at http://caaconference.org/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:

M. Pihokker, "Determining Spatial Relationships between Domestic Sites and Cemeteries of the Central Peloponnese"

L. Harrison, "Mobilizing a Salvage Archaeology Dataset to Build a 3D Interpretive Visualization"

W. Schmidle, S. Cuy, N. Kallas, F. Thiery, and J. Wieners, "Analyzing Reasons for Different Datings of Periods using the ChronOntology Time Gazetteer"

Ancient Phokis

On 30 March - 1 April 2017 an international congress entitled Ancient Phokis. New Approaches to its Archaeology, History, and Topography was held at the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Athen in cooperation with the École française d'Athènes. Further information is available at https://www.dainst.org/documents/10180/2746993/Programme_Phokistagung2017-03-13_lowRes.pdf/a2dd01ed-dddf-4871-a7db-720ead037a62. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

J.-M. Luce, "La céramique à Delphes et à Kalapodi de l'Age du fer"

S. Jalkotzy-Deger, "The Mycenaean cemetery of Elateia-Alonaki and the Early Iron Age: a historical essay"

2017 UK Archaeological Science Conference

On 5-8 April 2017 the 2017 UK Archaeological Science Conference was held at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. Further information is available at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/conferences/ukas2017. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:

E. Stroud, "Chalcolithic agricultural practices on the Anatolian plateau: investigating crop husbandry through a multistranded approach"

P. Vaiglova, A. Bogaard, R. Fraser, T. Karkanas, J. Evans, P. Halstead, T. Valamoti, M. Pappa, and J. Lee-Thorp, "Of Cattle and Feasts: using multiple isotopes to understand short- and long-term management patterns of animals consumed during feasts at Neolithic Makriyalos"

M. Lorenzon, "Raw source materials in Minoan mudbrick production"

R. Vykukal, "Lipid Analysis of Pottery from Ayia Triada Cave, Greece: Evidence for Ritualized Consumption?"

11o Επιστημονικό Συμπόσιο

On 6-7 April 2017 the Ενδέκατο Επιστημονικό Συμπόσιο - Ανασκαφή και Έρευνα XI: από το ερευνητικό έργο του Τομέας Αρχαιολογίας και Ιστορίας της Τέχνης was held by the Department of Archaeology and History of Art of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Further information is available at http://www.arch.uoa.gr/fileadmin/arch.uoa.gr/uploads/drast_arch/anaskafh_kai_ereyna_xi_program_2017.pdf. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

Κ. Κοπανιάς, "Πού βρισκόταν η Χώρα της Danuna; Where was the Land of Danuna located?"

Ε. Μαντζουράνη, Κ. Κοπανιάς, and Ι. Βοσκός, "Ο 'μεγάλος βασιλιάς της Αλασίας': αρχαιολογικές και γραπτές πηγές για την κοινωνικο-πολιτική οργάνωση της Κύπρου κατά την Ύστερη Εποχή του Χαλκού. The 'Great King of Alashia': archaeological and textual evidence on the sociopolitical organization of Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age"

Γ. Παπαδοπούλου, "'Τώρα σου έστειλα 500 'τάλαντα' χαλκού...'. Η επιστολή ΕΑ 35 από το αρχείο της Αμάρνα σταλμένη από τον βασιλιά της Αλασία προς τον Φαραώ. ʻNow I have sent to you 500 'talents' of copperʼ. Letter EA 35 of the Amarna archive sent by the king of Alašiya to the Pharaoh"

On 6-9 April 2017 a Conference on Environment and Human Activity in the Peloponnese was held at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, organized by the PELOPS group in cooperation with the Swedish Institute at Athens and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Further information is available at http://www.sia.gr/topics/2017/03/13/international-conference-human-environment-dynamics-peloponnese-beyond-ideas-methods-results/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

J. Kaplan, P. Sommer, and R. Hughes, "Quantitative modeling of land use in the prehistoric and classical Peloponnese, to characterize influence on land cover, sustainability, and vulnerability of society to environmental change"

A. Bogaard, V. Isaakidou, E. Nitsch, A. Styring, and P. Vaiglova, "Characterising land-use in prehistoric Greece and beyond: interdisciplinary approaches to on-site bioarchaeological evidence"

M. Prent and S. Kluiving, "The Geraki Archaeological Project: 6000 years of human-environment interactions in southeastern Laconia"

On 7 April 2017 the 24th Archaeology and Theory Conference: Power and Authority – an archaeologist's friend or foe? was held at Groningen University. Further information is available at http://www.archaeologicaldialogues.nl/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

C. W. Wiersma, "From domestic architecture to social hierarchies"

C. V. Alonso-Moreno, "Mycenae Rich in Gold: Social Discourse, Bias and Performance in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens"

IEMA10

On 8-9 April 2017 the Tenth Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology (IEMA) Visiting Scholar Conference. Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Research Strategies of Agro-Pastoralism in Upland Regions was held at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Further information is available at http://www.iema.buffalo.edu/conference/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

M. L. Galaty, "Agro-Pastoralism in a Dispersed Village, Mountain Economy: Results of the Shala Valley Project, Northern Albania"

M. Georgiadis, "Research at the Late Bronze Age peak sanctuary on Mt Leska, Kythera (Greece)"

AURA

A new journal has been announced: the Athens University Review of Archaeology (AURA), an international, peer-reviewed archaeological journal published biannually by the Department of Archaeology and History of Art of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The journal will publish original papers in Greek or English about archaeology, art and material culture of the broader Hellenic world, from early Prehistory to Modern times, as well as about Environmental Archaeology, Archaeometry, Museology, and Computer Applications in Art and Archaeology. The range of studies will include synthetic works, reports on excavations and field surveys, studies of archaeological material or works of art, various case studies, as well as preliminary publications of on-going research projects dealing with the scientific areas described above. There will also be an AURA Supplement series, comprising monographs in Greek or English with the same areas of interest as the journal, and will include monographs, edited volumes, conference proceedings, and publications of excavations, archaeological material or works of art. Both AURA journal and AURA Supplements are open-access publications published electronically as a PDF file, with printing restrictions. Further information and author and submission guidelines are available at http://aura.arch.uoa.gr/aura/ or via email from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Études Crétoises

The Études Crétoises series is now available online at http://cefael.efa.gr/result.php?site_id=1&serie_id=EtCret.

  1. Future Lectures and Conferences
  2. The Creation of Landscapes V
  3. SSB 2017
  4. Ritualizing Funerary Practices in the Prehistoric Aegean