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19th Neolithic Seminar

On 1 September 2014 abstracts (150-200 words, including name, institution, and the title of the paper) are due for the 19th Neolithic Seminar. Pottery and food: dietary practices in prehistory, to be held from 7-8 November 2014 at the Department of Archaeology, Ljubljana University, Ljubljana, Slovenia. All previous Neolithic Seminar proceedings are available in the periodical Documenta Prehistorica XXI-XXXIX. Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; further information is available at http://arheologija.ff.uni-lj.si/.

CAA 2015

On 30 September 2014 proposals for sessions (500 words maximum, including title, affiliations, and key words) are due for the 43rd Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2015): Keep the Revolution Going, to be held on 30 March-3 April 2015 in Siena, exploring topics to showcase ground-breaking technologies and best practice from various archaeological and computer science disciplines. Further information is available at https://caaconference.org/ocs/index.php?conference=caa&schedConf=caa2015. Themes will include:

Field and laboratory data recording

Data modelling, management and integration

Linked data and the semantic web

Data analysis and visualisation

3D modelling, visualization, thinking, interpretation and simulations

Spatio-temporal modelling, GIS and remote sensing

Users and interfaces: education, museums and multimedia

Theoretical issues and the relation of CAA with the Digital Humanities

Digital Cities, cultural heritage interpretation and modelling the past

In Poseidons Realm XX

On 31 October 2014 abstracts (250 words maximum) are due for the conference In Poseidons Realm XX: Land unter!, to be held on 16-22 March 2015 at the Germanic National Museum at Nuremberg and the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Papers are invited on flood control by digging sewers, building dikes and embankments or by other methods; conference papers will be published in Skyllis. Conference languages will be German and English. Further information is available at http://www.deguwa.org/.

Contacts, Migrations and Climate Change

On 30 November 2014 abstracts are due for the conference Contacts, Migrations and Climate Change: Conference in Honour of Prof. Dr. Jan Bouzek, to be held on 19-23 May 2015 in Prague. Abstracts (300 words maximum, in MS Word or Open Office format) for 20-minute presentations or for posters (portrait, maximum 100 x 70 cm) should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Conference languages will be English, German, and French; Powerpoint captions should be in English. The conference proceedings are to be published by the Masaryk University at Brno. Further information is available at http://ukar.ff.cuni.cz/en/Contacts_Migrations_and_Climate_Change_2015_Prague. Themes of the conference will be:

Interconnections in Bronze and Early Iron Age Europe

Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece

Celts on the Move

The Black Sea Area

Thrace and its Rulers

Roman Provinces

EAA2014

On 10-14 September 2014 the 20th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA2014) will be held in Istanbul, Turkey. Further information is available https://www.eaa2014istanbul.org/site. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

M. Gurova "Lithic Studies: An Alternative Approach to Neolithization?"

E. Marinova, "Archaeobotanical Evidence on the Neolithisation of Bulgaria in the Context of the Balkans and Anatolia"

T. Dzhanfezova, "Shaping the Future of Painting: The Early Neolithic Pottery from Dzhulyunitsa, Central North Bulgaria"

On 13 September 2014 a symposium entitled Saluting Ellen N. Davis: a Memorial Symposium will be held by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, 47-49 East 65th Street, New York City (between Park and Madison Avenues). R.S.V.P. by September 5 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The program will be:

P. P. Betancourt, J. D. Muhly, and S. C. Ferrence, "Cycladic Connections in the Metallurgy from the Petras Cemetery in Eastern Crete"

G. Kopcke, "Reading Ellen's 'The Gold of the Shaft Graves: the Transylvanian Connection' - Some Thoughts"

M. H. Wiener, "Helladic Pairs of Cups"

On 15-17 September 2014 an international conference entitled The Crossroads II, or There and Back Again? will be held at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia. Further information is available at http://egyptologie.ff.cuni.cz/?req=doc:konference&lang=en. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

A. B. Knapp, "Maritime Transport Containers, Mobility and Connectivity in the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age"

G. J. van Wijngaarden, "Questioning hybridity. Transcultural appropriation of manufactured artifacts in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean"

R. Prévalet and E. Morero, "Technological transfers of luxury craftsmanship between Crete and the Orient during the Bronze Age"

On 17-19 September 2014 the NARNIA international conference Interdisciplinary Studies of Ancient Materials from the Mediterranean will be held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Further information is available at http://narnia-itn.eu/highlights/narnia-international-conference-interdisciplinary-studies-of-ancient-materials-from-the-mediterranean/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

P. M. Day, "Ceramic analysis and critical mass: new evidence for longevity of major pottery production centres in the Aegean"

M. Dikomitou-Eliadou, A. Georgiou and A. K. Vionis, "Cooking pot fabric recipes: An interdisciplinary study of Cypriot cooking pots of the Late Bronze Age"

E. Nodarou and P. Keswani, "Regional variation in Late Cypriot pithos production: preliminary results from the petrographic analysis"

C. Makarona, P. Keswani, E. Nodarou, A. Jacobs, N. Mattielli, K. Nys, and P. Claeys, "Leave no mudstone unturned: geochemical provenancing reveals potters' choices and interactions in Late Bronze Age Cyprus"

  1. LAC 2014
  2. Past Lectures and Conferences
  3. May 2014 issue available
  4. From the Editors