On 6‐8 May 2011 the 2011 Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) will be held in Berkeley, CA. Further information, a list of sessions, and forms are available at http://arf.berkeley.edu/TAG2011/about/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

S. Katsarou, "The Neolithic Past on an Imaginary Stage"

C. Knappett, "The Potter's Wheel in the Bronze Age East Mediterranean: Innovation, Learning and Communities of Practice"

L. Nikolova, "Prehistoric Lifestyles and Visual Culture as a Theoretical Model"

N. Vander Beken, "'The Politics of Feasting in Minoan Crete': Reflections on the Mediating Role of the Minoan Palaces in the Creation of Asymmetrical Power Relations"

03 May 2011

The March 2011 (38.3) volume of Nestor is now available as a free download. This is the new free digital publication model for all future issues of Nestor.

14 April 2011

8th ICAANE

On
15
April
2011
proposals
for workshops
are
due
for
the 8th
International
Congress on
the
Archaeology
of
the
Ancient
Near
East
(8th ICAANE),
to
be
held
in
Warsaw,
Poland 30
April–4
May
2012.
On
15
October 2011
abstracts
(200
words
maximum)
for
papers (20
 minutes) and
posters are
due.
Further
information
is
available
at http://www.8icaane.org/. The
following
themes
of
possible
interest
to Nestor readers
have been
announced:

Townships
and
villages

Excavation
reports
and
summaries

High
and
low
—
minor
arts
for
the
elites
and
the
populace

Archaeology
of
fire

Conservation,
preservation
and
site
management

Bioarchaeology
in
the
ancient
Near
East

14 April 2011

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NY Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium

The
program
of
the New
York
Aegean
Bronze Age
Colloquium has
been
announced for spring
 2011.
 All
lectures
will be
held at
the
Institute
of
Fine
Arts,
One
East
78th
Street
at 6:30 pm.
Please
R.S.V.P.
to
212‐992‐5803
or
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15
April
2011: P.
Pantou,
"The
Development
of
Social Ranking
and
Mycenaean
State Formation
in Thessaly"

13
May 2011:
N.
Papdimitriou,
"The
changing
faces
of
death:
Funerary
ritual
and
society
in Early
Mycenaean
Greece"

14 April 2011

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