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ICAZ 2027
On 31 May 2026 abstracts (250 words maximum) for session proposals are due for the 15th International Conference of the International Council for Archaeozoology: Interconnections Among Communities Past and Present - Ocean, Land, and Sky (ICAZ 2027), to be held on 17–22 May 2027 in Vancouver, Canada. Submission of abstracts for papers or posters will be open from 1 June 2026 – 1 November 2026. Further information is available at https://sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6td4Y. Subthemes will be:
• Ocean Communities Connected
• The Public, Stakeholder Engagement and Descendent Community Priorities
• Transboundary Approaches in Archaeozoology: Across Land and Sea, and Beyond
• Social Zooarchaeology
• Old Bones - New Methods - Blue Skies
• Economy and Domestication
• Multispecies Worlds
In Poseidons Realm XXXI
On 4–10 May 2026 the conference In Poseidons Realm XXXI. Pontos Axeinos - Pontos Euxeinos: Underwater archaeology in the Black Sea will be held in Batumi, Georgia. Further information is available at http://www.deguwa.org/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
S. Wachsmann, “Sea Peoples in the Medinet Habu Naval Battle Scene”
7th International Lychnological Association Congress
On 7–9 May 2026 the 7th International Lychnological Association Congress. Ancient Lights, Modern Insights: Recent Advances in Lychnology will be held in Athens, in collaboration with the French School at Athens and the Hellenic Open University. Further information is available at https://sites.google.com/view/ila2026/home?authuser=0. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. Theou and K. Kopaka, “Lighting a small island's nights. Gavdos's lamps in time”
S. Katsarou and F. Georgiadis, “Illuminating the Deep: Multi-temporal lighting assemblages from ‘Agriomernos’ Cave, Samos”
D. Spiliopoulou, “The lighting devises of the prehistoric settlement of Akrotiri, Thira. Evidence of daily life practices and religious rituals”
B. Rueff, “Conical cups and other spoutless vessels used as lamps in Bronze Age Crete. Technical and social insights”
S. Trucolo, “Light and function in the Protopalatial contexts of Phaistos (Crete): a Reassessment of ceramic lighting systems (1900-1700 BC)”
D. Gavriil, “‘And Let There Be Light’: The Lighting Conditions as an Organizational Factor of Mortuary Rituals and Experiences at LBA Alassa-Pano Mantilaris”
ISA 2026
On 18-22 May 2026 the 45th International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA 2026) will be held in Torino, Italy. Further information is available at https://isa2026torino.it/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
G. S. Polymeris, G. Tampakopoulou, J. Sanjurjo-Sánchez, I.K. Sfampa, G. Kitis, K. Stamoulis, A. Hein, A. Vafiadou, Y. Soukantos, P. Triantafyllidis, and Y. Facorellis, “Chronological Reconstruction of the Building Phases of the Largest Urban Center of Europe’s Prehistory; A Combined Tl and Radiocarbon Dating Study in Poliochne, Lemnos”
V. Orfanou, K. Aktypi, A. Batziou, E. Borgna, Th. Giannopoulos, A. Franjic, O. A. Jones, C. Kleitsas, K. Kostanti, Y. Lavallée, I. Lemos, D. Müller, P. Degryse, and P. W. Stockhammer, “Understanding the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean Through Metallurgical Technology and Knowledge Networks”
From the Pleistocene to Anthropocene
On 22 May 2026 a workshop entitled From the Pleistocene to Anthropocene: Navigating the Challenges of Representing Long-Term History will be held by the Danish Institute in Athens. Further information is available at https://www.cig-icg.gr/event/international-workshop-from-the-pleistocene-to-anthropocene-navigating-the-challenges-of-representing-long-term-history/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
I. Hodder, “'What goes around comes around': towards a wave theory of the long-term’”
S. Crewson, “Meeting the challenges of representing long-term histories: A Middle Pleistocene to Anthropocene case study from Stelida, Naxos (Greece)”
J. Bintliff, “Seeing with your feet: Landscape Archaeology in layered and compressed time”
R. Wragg Sykes, “Archaeological Imaginaries: Thinking Through Writing About the Past”
G. Vavouranakis, “Can Deep Time be considered an active constituent of Minoan society?”
D. Gavriil, “What is it to be a Cypriot? A Humanocentric Interpretation of Bronze Age Cypriot Settlements in the Longue Durée”
H. Dawson, “Keeping time: The multi-temporal histories of small Mediterranean islands”
D. Athanasoulis, “Showcasing the Cycladic past”
M. Dragouni, “Working with stakeholder communities in heritage research”
T. Carter, “Sources of history: Lithic quarries & archaeology of the long-term, the case of Göllü Dağ (Türkiye)”
T. Whitelaw, “To make a long story short: addressing the changing character and role of Knossos in Crete over nine millennia”
LAC 2026
On 18–20 March 2026 the Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC 2026) was held in Bamburg, Germany. Further information is available at https://lac2026.com/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
C. T. Shay and L. Nendick, “The Mycenaean Collapse and its aftermath on the Argive Plain, Greece”
M. Kalisch and E. Robakiewicz, “Climate Matters: Environmental Review of the Ionian Islands from the Bronze Age to the Roman Period”
M. Wittschen, A. Reingruber, G. Toufexis, and M. Nykamp, “Fluvio-lacustrine dynamics as a driver of prehistoric settlement relocations in eastern Thessaly, Greece? — first results”
E. Ridder, S. E. Pilaar Birch, S. E. Falconer, and P. L. Fall, “18O Isoscapes for Cyprus and Jordan: Baselines for Bronze Age Mobility and Agriculture”
A. Valette, “Modelling Mycenaean Roads in the Argolid through GIS and Historical Cartography”
M. Haagsma, S. Karapanou, M. Aiken, G. Canlas, E. Dotsika, M. Chykerda, S. Garvie-Lok, E. Middleton, A. Kaur, G. Toufexis, G. Tsokas, and A. Wiznura, “Peripheries as areas of Centrality: The Central Achaia Phthiotis Survey”
S. Ghislandi, M. Amadio, L. Bombardieri, R. Vandam, S. Vervust, E. Egberts, A. Cerón González, M. Eguiluz, Y. Devos, and I. Rellini, “Landscapes of Resilience: The Terraced Hills of Erimi, Cyprus”
K. Sporn, W. Kennedy, P. Kounouklas, S. Ortisi, and D. Grigoropoulos, “The Kephissos Valley Project. Human-Environment Relations in an Ancient Greek Riverine Environment”