On 24-26 September 2015 the 13th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics (MAC 2015) was held at the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece. Further information is available at http://www.emac2015.gr or from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:
C. Makarona, A. Jacobs, P. Claeys, and K. Nys, "The elemental dimensions of ceramic fabrics: re-evaluating Late Bronze Age Cypriot pottery recipes using micro-XRF elemental mapping"
R. Mentesana, P. M. Day, V. Kilikoglou, and S. Todaro, "Exploring technological variability in pottery manufacturing: How, why and what for? A case study of Final Neolithic-Early Bronze Age ceramics from Phaistos, Crete"
E. Nodarou and Y. Papadatos, "From the Far East to the Far West: Patterns of pottery production and consumption in the Final Neolithic sites of Petras Kephala and Nerokourou (Crete)"
On 1 November 2015 applications are due to the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) for 2016 New or Renewal Research Grants, the Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete (SCEC) Librarian Fellowship, the SCEC Petrography Internship, Six-Week Research Grants at INSTAP SCEC, and the Petrography Internship at INSTAP SCEC. Applications for Publication Team Support and Publication Subventions have no specific due dates. Further information and applications are available at http://www.aegeanprehistory.net/; applications should be submitted via e-mail as MS WORD or PDF documents or in two hard copies.
On 1 September 2015 abstracts (150-200 words) are due for the conference 22nd Neolithic Seminar: Modelling the Processes of Neolithisation, to be held on 6-7 November 2015 by the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The Neolithic Seminar proceedings are published in the Documenta Praehistorica international journal (numbers XXX-XLI are available at http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica). Further information is available at http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/arheologija/1/Dejavnosti/Konference-in-posveti/Neolithic-seminars.aspx.
On 7 September 2015 proposals for sessions, roundtables, and workshops are due for the 44th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2016): Exploring Oceans of Data, to be held on 29 March-2 April 2016 in Oslo, Norway. On 18 October 2015 abstracts are due for papers or posters. Further information is available at http://caaconference.org/.
Commemorative Symposium in honor of Professor Oliver Rackham
On 30 September 2015 expressions of interest (to be indicated by filling out the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ST9QMLD) are due for a Commemorative Symposium in honor of Professor Oliver Rackham, to be held on 13-14 August 2016 at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Further information is available at http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/seminars/2016-08-13.
PeClA 2015
On 15 October 2015 detailed abstracts (500 words specifying methodology and main results) for 20-minute papers or posters are due for the 4th Perspectives in Classical Archaeology 2015 (PeClA 2015) Postgraduate Conference. From Elites to the Others: Degrees of Visibility, to be held on 10-11 December 2015 at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Further information is available at http://www.arup.cas.cz/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/PeKlA-2015_CFP_final.pdf.
In Poseidons Realm XXI
On 31 October 2015 titles and abstracts (250 words) for papers or posters are due for the conference In Poseidons Realm XXI: Underwater archaeology - interdisciplinary approaches and technical innovations, to be held on 22-24 April 2016 in Dresden, Germany. Conference papers will be published in Skyllis. Further information is available at http://www.deguwa.org/.
BANEA 2016
On 31 October 2015 abstracts for posters or papers are due for the 2016 Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA 2016): Land, Sea and Sky in the Near East, to be held on 6-8 January 2016 at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter. Further information is available at http://www.banea2016.org/.
GAO
On 27 November 2015 submissions for papers are due for the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford (GAO) Annual Conference, to be held on 12-13 March 2016 in Oxford. The conference will focus on the multidimensional ways in which humans have interacted with their natural environment in prehistoric and historic times. Further information is available from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Adalya XIX (2016)
On 31 December 2015 article submissions are due for volume XIX (2016) of Adalya, the annual refereed journal of Adalya, Suna – İnan Kıraç Akdeniz Medeniyetleri Araştırma Enstitüsü'nün (AKMED). The scope of the journal is the research, study, documentation, conservation, and interpretation of the relationships between the cultures of the Mediterranean Sea in the fields of history, archaeology, and other related disciplines, especially the geography determined as the "entire Anatolian Mediterranean", namely, Lycia, Pamphylia, Cilicia, and Pisidia. Further information is available at http://www.akmedadalya.com/index_en.php.
