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International Ancient Warfare Conference 2016

On 28-30 June 2016 the International Ancient Warfare Conference 2016 will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden. Further information is available at http://historiskastudier.gu.se/forskning/konferenser/international-ancient-warfare-conference-2016. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

M. Kramer, "Of Ships and Shields: The Dipylon Shield and the Mycenaean Galley at the Bronze Age-Early Iron Age Transition"

I. Georganas, "How Militaristic were Aegean Bronze Age Societies?"

P. M. Fischer, "Cyprus in the Centre of the Storm: The 12th Century's BCE Crisis Years on Cyprus"

L. Alberti, "Peaceful 'Minoans' vs. Warlike 'Mycenaeans'? The Meaning of Weaponry found in the Knossian Tombs of the Late Bronze Age: Roles, Status and Multiple Identities"

T. Alusik, "Slinging in the Prehistoric Aegean: New Perspectives"

LAC 2016

On 23-25 August 2016 the 4th International Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC 2016) will be hosted by the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University. Further information is available at http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/LAC_2016+/?languageId=1. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

R. Veropoulidou, "Eating Cockles, Wearing Cockles in Neolithic and Bronze Age Northern Greece"

L. A. Kvapil, "Labor and Negotiation in a Terraced Landscape: The LBA Terraces of Korphos-Kalamianos"

K. Efkleidou, "Mobility in Landscapes of Death: Exploring the value of mobility and visibility in the formation of Mycenaean Death-scapes"

H. A. Orengo, A. Krahtopoulou, A. Dimoula, A. Garcia-Molsosa, K. Palaiochoritis, Y. Papadias, N. Saridaki, and E. Vliora, "Reconstructing the Lost Prehistoric and Classical Landscapes of Western Thessaly, Central Greece, Through Combined Historic Aerial Photography, Remote Sensing, GIS and Archaeological Survey"

38th Annual Excavation, Survey & Archaeometry Symposium

On 23-37 May 2016 the 38th Annual Excavation, Survey & Archaeometry Symposium organized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture was held in Ankara. Further information is available at http://38kst-en.trakya.edu.tr/pages/about-the-symposium#.V2RyEiMrKqm. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

M. Özdoğan, "Excavations and Underwater Investigations at Liman Tepe, 2002"

N. Karul, "Excavations at Aktopraklık, 2015"

S. Özdöl Kutlu, "Çatalhöyük Excavations 2015"

On 25-29 May 2016 the Γ ΄ Διεθνές Κυκλαδολογικό Συνέδριο. Οι Κυκλάδες στη διαχρονία: Χώρος-Άνθρωποι. 3rd International Cycladological Conference. Cyclades through the Ages: Space-People was held in Hermoupolis, Syros. Further information is available at http://www.ekyklamel.gr/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:

C. Renfrew, M. Boyd, D. Athanasoulis, I. Legaki, N. Brodie, G. Gavalas, J. Hilditch, and J. Wright, "The 2015 Southeast Naxos survey"

Ν. Μουρτζάς and Ε. Κολαΐτη, "Οι επιπτώσεις των μεταβολών της θαλάσσιας στάθμης στη παράκτια ανθρώπινη δραστηριότητα κατά την προϊστορική και ιστορική αρχαιότητα στον χώρο των βόρειων Κυκλάδων"

On 10-11 June 2016 an international colloquium entitled From Maple to Olive: A Colloquium to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Institute in Greece was held at the Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene. Further information is available at http://www.cig-icg.gr/events. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:

D. W. Rupp, "From Maple to Olive: Canadian Fieldwork and Research Transforming the Archaeologies of Greece"

M. Nazou, "Kiapha Thiti: the pottery from the earliest phase of the acropolis (Final Neolithic-Early Bronze Age)"

L. Tyree, "Kamares Cave and the early, ritual landscape of South Central Crete: Diachronic changes in cave rituals"

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