ICAZ 2027

On 25 August 2026 abstracts (200 words) are due for the International Council for Archaeozoology 15th Conference. Interconnections Among Communities Past and Present — Ocean, Land, and Sky (ICAZ 2027), to be held on 17–22 May 2027 in Vancouver, Canada. Further information is available at https://sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6td4Y. The conference themes include:
• Ocean Connected Communities / Communautés connectées à l’océan
• Public, Stakeholder Engagement, and Descendant Community Priorities / Engagement du public et des parties prenantes, priorités des communautés descendants
• Transboundary Approaches in Archaeozoology / Approches transfrontalières en archéozoologie : à travers les terres et les mers, et au-delà
• Social Zooarchaeology / Zooarchéologie sociale
• Old Bones – New Methods – Blue Skies / Vieux os, Nouvelles méthodes, nouveaux horizons
• Economy and Domestication / Économie et domestication
• Multispecies Worlds / Mondes multi-espèces

SOMA 2026

On 13 September 2026 abstracts (250 words) are due for the 27th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology: The Impacts of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage (SOMA 2026), to be held on 5–7 November 2026 in Warsaw, Poland. Further information is available at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/larogonzalez_soma-xxvii-activity-7480923725010407424-LKq4/.

ICAANE 2027

On 20 September 2026 submissions for workshop proposals and oral or poster abstracts (300 words) are due for the 15th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE 2027), to be held on 4–8 May 2027 in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. Further information is available at https://15icaane.tsu.ge/. Themes at 15th ICAANE are:
• Excavations and Survey Reports
• Transitions and Transformations: Methodologies for Defining the Dynamics of Cultural Change between the Chalcolithic and the Achaemenid periods
• Environment, Landscape, and Climate Transformations
• Political Organization, Urbanism, and Settlement Patterns
• Metallurgy, Craft, and Trade Networks: The crossroads of Exchanges in Technology, Minerals and Finished Products
• Mortuary Practices, Ritual Landscapes, and Identity
• Scripts and Shifts: Cultural Innovation and Transformation
• Islamic Archaeology
• Genomic, Biological, and Bioarchaeological Analysis: New Perspectives and the Broader View
• Cultural Heritage and Museum: Ethics, Technologies & Public Engagement
• Teaching Archaeology: The Dig as a Field School for Didactic and Training

EMAC2027

On 31 October 2026 abstract submissions for oral or poster presentations and applications for enrollment in the Lab&Museum School are due for the 18th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics (EMAC2027), to be held on 24–28 May 2027 in Brussels, Belgium. The application form and further information are available at https://emac2027.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en. Oral and poster presentations on the archaeometry of ceramics are welcomed through the following thematic sessions:
• Mobility of crafts, skills, and pottery products
• Pottery technology, from production to use
• The art of terracotta
• Innovation and tradition in ceramic crafts
• Ceramic ecology
• Ceramics and society
• Archaeometry at the museum
• New advances in the archaeometry of ceramics

ScapeCon9

On 10 November 2026 abstracts (250 words) are due for the 9th ScapeCon. Transforming Scapes: Processes of Transformation and Continuity in the Prehistoric Aegean (ScapeCon9), to be held on 27–28 May 2027 in Lublin, Poland. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/ScapeCon. The conference will focus on the following thematic areas:
• Transforming Materials
• Transforming Technologies
• Transforming Places
• Transforming Bodies
• Transforming Communities
• Transforming Beliefs and Representations
• Transforming Knowledge
• Approaches to Transformation

31 July 2026

EAA AM 2026

On 26-29 August 2026 the 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists: Resonant Pasts (EAA AM 2026) will be held in Athens, Greece. Further information is available at https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2026. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
I. Georganas, “Aegean Late Bronze ‘Warrior Graves’ Before, During and After the Palatial Period: Similarities and Differences”
N. Ivanova, T. Bogdanova, and R. Hristova, “Microremains and macroquestions: plant processing and subsistence strategies in two Late Neolithic sites in Eastern Bulgaria”
E.-S. Kourti, “Out of the Pit: First phytolith results from the upper levels of a Neolithic site in Northern Greece”
Y. Katreva, E, Marinova, and E. Bozhinova, “Resinous Adhesive Materials as Multi-Proxy Archives of Environmental and Technological Practices for the LBA. A Case Study from Plovdiv, Bulgaria”
D. Borowka, “Resilience at the Margins: Rethinking Prehistoric Settlement in the Underexplored Landscapes of Southwest Crete”
R. Vandam, G. Stoffels, P. De Weirdt, M. Polidorou, E. Egberts, R. Hoevers, S. Vervust, G. Verstraeten, M. Vanmaercke, and C. Schwarz, “Untangling the Late Bronze Age Collapse: An interdisciplinary study of landscape dynam¬ics and resilience strategies in the Larnaca Bay (Cyprus)”
D. Mihailovic, T. Carter, D. Contreras, J. Holcomb, C. Lahaye, and D. Athanasoulis, “Pleistocene Stelida in the Mega-Cyclades: Bioenvironmental Contexts of Insularity, Connectivity, and Technological Adaptation”
E. Ünlü and E. Kozal, “The Impact of Changing Political Landscape of Anatolia on Cilicia’s Maritime Connectivity during the Middle to Late Bronze Periods”
N. Kazamias, “Beyond the Grey Area: Lesvos and the Northeast Aegean in Late Bronze Age Maritime Networks”
G. Muti, “The Island that Made Sails: Landscape, Resources and Production of Maritime Textiles in Bronze and Iron Age Cyprus”
L. Pisanu, “Beyond the Aegean: Social Complexity, Agency, and Trade in Nuragic Sardinia”
B. Casa, “External auditory exostoses and the evolution of aquatic activity in Cyprus from the Aceramic Neolithic to the Roman period”
C. Broodbank, “Keynote: Islands in the stream of science: new perspectives and new opportunities”
M. Monnier, “Making and repairing a Mycenaean copper cauldron: understanding the techniques of the past with modern coppersmith”
C. Mcnamee, S. Vitale, T. Marketou, and M. Michailidou, “Settlement Strategies, Land Use Choices, and Human Agencies: A Comparative Case Study from the Island of Kos, Dodecanese, Greece”
M. Gurova and C. Bonsall, “Raw material networks in Balkan Prehistory: a proxy for social interaction and sustainability”
J. Fries-Knoblach, “Breaking the shell: Marine invertebrates in cultic and funeral contexts of the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean”
T. Theodoropoulou and V. Vlachou, “Shells for the deceased: shell remains from burial contexts in the Early Iron Age and Archaic Aegean”
A. Dimoula, “Keynote: Interactions between Northern Greece and the Southern Balkans during the 6th millennium BCE: The Case of Impresso Pottery”
L. Bonga, “Early Neolithic Impressed, Incised, and Finger-pinched Pottery from Pontokomi-Vrysi and Mavorpigi-Filotsairi, Western Macedonia, Greece “
A. Reingruber, “The importance of impressed pottery from newly discovered Neolithic flat sites in north-eastern Thessaly “
L. Hüntemann, “Beyond the Early Neolithic: Impressed Pottery from Agia Sophia Magoula in Thessaly, Greece”
E. Andoni, “Keynote: Between the Adriatic and the Balkans: Impressed Neolithic Pottery in Albania”
D.-A. Tsami, “A critical approach to field data for the study of impressed ceramics between the Aegean and Adriatic seas”
R. George, “Human Population Genomics and the Cardial-Impresso phenomenon”
Z. Tsirtsoni, “Keynote: Impressed pottery as expression of pottery traditions in pre- and protohistoric Greece and Eastern Balkans”
O. Bamyaci, “Symbolism of Ground Stone Tools in the Northeastern Aegean: Practises from Gulpınar”
T. Bekiaris, “Crafting Communities: Stone Edge Tool Technologies and Traditions in Neolithic Kastoria”
L. Sorensen, M. Brandl, and O. Bamyacı, “Pieces of Places: The Discovery of Novel Neolithic Exchange Networks in the Aegean”
M. Brandl, L. Sørensen, and K. Manteli, “From Stone to Network: The Rise of Sesklo and Dimini as Neolithic Hubs of Exchange”
M. Mexi, “Small Tools, Long Lives: Ground stone cutting tools from the Early Bronze Age Settlement at Koropi (Attica)”
V. Fries, E. Andoni, J. Anvari, D. Orton, and P. Willett, “Faunal Remains from the Middle Neolithic Site of Luadisht (Albania): Subsistence and Animal Exploitation”
T. Valchev, “Bronze Age stone casting mould from the village of Drama, Yambol district, Bulgaria”
A. Kayaalp, “From Furnace to Philosophy: Western Anatolian Metalwork and Early Aegean Understandings of Physics”
E. Grabar, A. Charalambous, and G. Papasavvas, “Revisiting the metal artifacts excavated by the French Expedition at Enkomi”
Y. Facorellis and C. Marangou, “Metallurgical activities in the rock-cut coastal landscape of Myrina Kastro, North Aegean”
E. Chrysocheri and N. Karapetsi, “Mobile Communities, Anchored Sites: Collaborative Practice at the Mycenaean Shipwreck off Modi Islet, Poros”
E. Brachou and S.-M. Valamoti, “Exploring diversity and specialization in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Dikili Tash through charred plant remains”
E. Banou, “Ritual Reflections of the Land-, Sea and Sky-scape of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno, Kythera”
S. Aulsebrook, “What the Cult Centre Megaron does and does not tell us about craft and religion at Late Bronze Age Mycenae”
A. Brysbaert, “Sacred skills, self-definition, and scale: object and space biographies in Prehistoric East Mediterranean crafts and rituals”
T. Boloti, “The economic role of sanctuaries as producers and consumers: textiles/garments in sacred spaces during the Mycenaean period”
S. Cvecek, “Enthrone, dethrone, rethrone: Interpreting Matrilineal Kinship in Aegean Prehistory”
C. Marangou, “Representing physical or symbolic gender differentiation in the Neolithic – reflections of reality, transition, liminality and ambiguity?”
K. Doležalová, C. Luke, and C. Roosevelt, “Surveying the Stones of Daily Life: Grinding Stone Production at the Bronze Age Citadel of Kaymakçı in western Anatolia”
A. Chroni and V. Karathanassi, “The Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean cultural network: GIS for theory and practice crossroads, public engagement and cultural heritage management reconciliation”
A. Chroni and C. Merkouri, “Applied archaeology: geoinformatics for a holistic documentation of the Mycenaean cemetery at Kambi, Zakynthos island, Greece”
K. Karanikola, S.-M. Valamoti, and G. Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, “Crop flexibility and adaptation in marginal environments: Late Bronze Age millet from Skala Sotiros, Thasos (northern Greece) in its regional context”
D. Brown, “Assessing Shape Variation in Mycenaean Artefacts Using 2D Geometric Morphometrics”
N. Aleksandrov, “Expected Choices: Organization of Lithic Technology and Morphological Change in Neolithic and Chalcolithic Bulgaria”
L. Kvapil and K. Shelton, “How do we ‘handle’ this? Exploring vessel handles to reconstruct social practices”
M. Kaczmarek, K. Winnicka, M. Przymorska-Sztuczka, M. Truszkowski, and A. Ulanowska, “Changes in Function, Structure, and Morphology of Textile Impressions on Pottery from the Late Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age”
F. Georgiadis, K. Trimmis, and S. Katsarou, “Unfinished Tales: Towards a Diachronic and Interdisciplinary Approach in Mediterranean Cave Archaeology”
T. Strasser, “Iconographical Superimposition at Asphendou Cave on Crete: Practice and Meaning”
E. Karkazi, S. Katsarou, S. Ligkovanlis, E. Asouti, and C. Kabukcu, and A. Darlas, “Reconstructing a Lost Cave Stratigraphy: Marine and Karst Processes at Limnopoula Rockshelter (Varassova, Western Greece)”
C. Perlès and M. Rose, “Constructing a chronostratigraphic framework for the Franchthi Cave and Paralia”
J. Beck, P. Birchler Emery, and D. Sakellariou, “From subterranean to submerged: investigating the Bay of Kiladha, beyond Franchthi Cave”
A. Papathanasiou, “Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave and memorialization: interpretive challenges of the ritual practices and the mortuary record”
D. Chadjiangelou, “The excavation of the Klenia Cave in Corinthia. Ritual practices in prehistoric Peloponnese and comparisons with Cretan caves”
I. Efstathiou and N. Daskalakis, “New Finds and Stratigraphic Evidence for the Diachronic Use of the Psychro Cave, Crete”
S. Ferrence, L. Bonga, and A. Kanta, “Making Sense of Taphonomic Processes in the Neolithic “Longue Durée” in the Pelekita Cave, Crete: An Ongoing Discussion”
K. Trimmis, “Surveying the Underground: Discovery Units, Deposits, and Non-Invasive Cave Archaeology in the Mediterranean”
A. Sarris and S. Katsarou, “Archaeological CaveScapes in Central-West Greece”
A. Aidonis, E. Ganiatsou, A. Souleles, C. Kakasa, P. Bantavanou, S. Katsarou, I. Efstathiou, A. Darlas, and C. Papageorgopoulou, “Caves as biocultural archives: Interdisciplinary methods for study and outreach”
Y. Facorellis, “Radiocarbon Dating of caves and rockshelters in Greece – An overview”
A. Tsurev and P. Leshtakov, “Between Rivers and Mountains: Rethinking Movement in Early Neolithic Thrace”
S. Stylios, “Pottery and Domestic Space in Neolithic Eastern Attica”
K. Papayianni, “A microcosm of micromammals in Neolithic settlements of Greece: evidence for early synanthropy or just environmental indications?”
I. Mathioudaki and P. Pavuk, “Rethinking Middle Helladic (Pottery) Traditions”
C. Hale, “Resisting the Lustre: Central Euboean ‘Grey Power’ and the Entrenched Traditions of Middle Helladic Central Greece”
D. Frank, “From Fingerprints to Orbits: Reassessing NAA Provenance in the MH–LH Northeast Peloponnese “
S. Vitale, “Crafting Complexity: Middle Helladic Traditions, Mainland Agency, and the Making of Mycenaean Lustrous Decorated Pottery”
F. Nani, “Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something New: Aeginetan-Mycenaean Interactions at Mitrou, Central Greece, during the Early Late Bronze Age”
T. Krapf and M.-F. Papakonstantinou, “Between Mitrou and Pefkakia: End of MBA and the process to Mycenaeanization at the coastal site of Raches (Central Greece)”
N. Abell and D. Roberson, “Evaluating the persistence of mainland-style consumption practices into the Late Bronze Age at Ayia Irini, Kea”
T. Van Damme, “Quantifying and qualifying Late Helladic (LH) I at Eleon”
D. Agnousiotis, “Pottery of non-Mycenaean traditions during the early Late Bronze Age at the site of Kastro-Palaia, Volos”
G. Tsiaggouris and M. Tsouli, “Communities in transition in the Eurotas Valley: a Middle Helladic III/Late Helladic I small tholos tomb from Sparta”
L. Phialon, “Continuity and change in late Middle Helladic and early Late Helladic Boeotia: an update”
B. Huber, “Innovation, representation and fortification in Aegina Kolonna. New thoughts on the representative function of fortifications in the Early Mycenaean period”
S. Dimaki and M. Georgiadis, “The Early Neolithic Vrastero in southern Grevena”
B. Legarra Herrero, “The transformative power of the fringes and in-betweens. Exchange and change in the Bronze Age Mediterranean”
T. Malachtaris, “Social complexity in Neolithic Thessaly: Case studies from the settlements of Dimini, Mandra, and Palioskala”
M. Mitrovich, “The Body Politic: what the iconography of the human body can reveal about the socio¬political structure of Minoan Crete”
Y. Beld, “The emergence of inequality and socio-political complexity in early Mycenaean Laconia: a bottom-up story?”
S. Hilker, “Non-palatial Agency in Mycenaean Settlement Development”
T. Sager, “Building Agency in Late Bronze Age Crete: Architectural micro-history as an approach to social change”
I. Papaioannou, S, Valamoti, Z. Intze, A. Siros, and G. Konidaris, “Preliminary Zooarchaeological evidence from Antartes Cave in Northern Greece”
A. Harding, “Keynote: The Balkans in the Bronze Age: connected or disconnected?”
V. Szeverenyi, “Early Bronze Age networks between the Carpathian Basin and the Aegean”
J. Dani, “Birds flying high... The Balkanic roots of the bird representations of the Bronze Age Carpathian Basin”
E. Pasztor, “Trading cosmological symbols? Bronze Age cosmological depictions and the southern relations”
F. Frankovic and P. Pavúk, “From Hand to Hand: Bronze Age Two-Handled Cups between Anatolia, the Aegean, and the Carpathian Basin”
O. Gyurka, “The Maros Group and Aegean Connectivity: Local Communities in Bronze Age Networks”
Á. Mengyán, Z. Hrabák, B. Bajnóczi, V. Szilágyi, Z. Kasztovszky, and F. Kristály, “Local, regional, long-distance? Trade networks in the Tumulus period through raw material analyses from Maklár (NE Hungary)”
A. Kapuran, “Burial Rite between the Central Balkan and North Aegean World during Early and Middle Bronze Age”
T. Daróczi, “Funerary kits, high-res c14 and a late Middle Bronze Age Danubian epidemic, as contextual data for southeast European contacts”
D. Ilieva,Y. Mutafchieva, and V. Dimitrova, “The Middle Bronze Age site of Slivnitsa, Bulgaria: at the crossroads of Northern and Southern Balkans”
P. Minkov, “The amber road: The earliest evidences of amber in context of territory of present-day Bulgaria”
E. Bozhinova, “The End of the Bronze Age. The Case of Plovdiv, Bulgaria”
L. Marta, “Mycenae and the Carpathians. Similarities in social valorization of architecture”
D. Ložnjak Dizdar, “Old stories from the local view of the southern Carpathian Basin: new finds and contexts”
E. Fejer, “The ‘cutting-edge’ perspective – utilitarian implements and transregional interactions between the Aegean and the Carpathian Basin”
C. Bodnár and A. Márton, “Bronze socketed axes from Corinth? – Balkan–Aegean interactions in the post-palatial and Early Iron Age: evidence from metal objects”
J. Maran, “Keynote: Endnote to the session”
G. Cavillier, “The ‘Shardana Project,’ Pirates and navigators in the eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age: perspectives and research”
E. Apostola, “Egyptian religious ideas in the Mediterranean during the Early Iron Age: the funerary and votive aspects of Egyptian amulets”
K. Boyadzhiev, T. Popova, M. Andonova-Katsarski, and Y. Katreva, “Visibility and reconstruction of timber and daub architecture in prehistoric tell sites: the case of Chalcolithic Yunatsite, South Bulgaria”
G. Cavillier, “‘Shardana Project’: the impact of the Sea Peoples in Egypt: perspectives and research”
G. Ntzoufras, Y. Papadatos, and T. Kalantzopoulou, “How Marginal? How Central? The case of Mt. Dikte, East Crete, during the Bronze Age”
H. Aleksandrova and M. Andonova-Katsarski, “Regulating Archives and Archaeobotanical Archiving: Challenges from Bulgaria”
M. Pieniazek, “Carnelian and Amber in the Aegean Bronze Age: Changing Values over Time”
N. Chatzitheodoridou, “Corridors of Mobility and Connectivity: Human-Landscape Interaction in the Neolithic Strymon River Valley”
R. Laoutari, “Legacy Data, Inherited Narratives: the Site of Philia/Vasiliko-Laksia tou Kasinou in Occupied Cyprus at the Dawn of the Bronze Age”
A. Ulanowska, M. Kaczmarek, M. Przymorska-Sztuczka, K. Winnicka, and K. Żebrowska, “Practice, execution, implementation - what we can learn from handling textiles and clay, based (mostly) on evidence from the Aegean”
J. Marks, “Peopling the Past: Crafting Textile Communities of Practice in the Late Bronze Age Aegean”
L. Alberti and N. Abell, “Women as Brokers, Movers, and Shakers: Facilitating Change in Bronze Age Aegean Ritual Practice”
V. Tsikritea, “Material Elements of Cult: EIA Pottery and Terracotta Animal Figurines at the Peak Sanctuary of Mt. Juktas”
A. Pegoraro and G. Da Villa, “Shields for the Gods: Mapping Rituals and Connections through Miniature Shield Offerings in Early Iron Age Crete and the Mediterranean”
S. Souvatzi, “Rethinking the relationship between architecture, kinship and household in the Neolithic”
M. Semmoto, “Synchronization and cultural relations between Southern Bulgaria and the adjacent areas in the Early Bronze Age”
Z. Vasileva and P. Minkov, “Connecting Shores and Plains: The Role of Thrace in Southern Balkan Interactions during the Third Millennium BC”
K. Jazwa, “Early Helladic Settlement in Central Greece and the Influence of Coastal Proximity”
K. Douni and M. Mexi, “An Early Bronze Age mainland center in the Aegean: mobility, technological innovation and craft specialization at Koropi (east Attica)”
C. Nuttall, “Across the Saronic: Interaction and Exchange in the Third Millennium BC. Evidence from the Little Islandscapes of the Saronic Project”
J. Baxley Craig, “Covering Old Ground: Ground Stone Tools as Part of Legacy Data from Ayia Irini, Kea”
A. Papastathopoulou and O. Vus, “Echinos (Phthiotis) through the Ages: Landscape, Connectivity and Community Resilience from Prehistory to Byzantium”
E. Voulgari and M. Sofronidou, “Reassembling cooking practices in Neolithic Dispilio, NW Greece”
E. Angeli, “Everyday Vessels, Enduring Practices: The Simple Hemispherical Bowl and Its Users at Neolithic Halai, Central Greece”
A. Kaliszewska, “Early Pottery from Gournia (Crete): facts, hints and traces. Reconstructing the inner workings of a Late Prepalatial Production Centre”
M. Árvai, “The process of creation: the role of the chaîne opératoire and scientific analysis in the study of Mycenaean terracotta figurines”
A. Dybkjaer, “Crete in a Transitional Period: Interaction, Identity, and the Emergence of Social Complexity in Pre-Palatial Seal Use”
A. Anastasi and K. Anastasi, “Topography, Environment, and Settlement Variability in Prehistoric Pile-Dwelling Sites of Albania: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Approach”
A. Varis, P. Karkanas, V. Tourloukis, and K. Harvati, “Site Formation Processes at Apidima: A Preliminary Micromorphological Framework”
D. Fallu and S. Voutsaki, “Detecting Disturbance: Integrating Micromorphology, Geochemistry, and Luminescence to Disentangle Cemetery Site Formation in Bronze Age Greece”
V. Martin, “Following in the footsteps of the Neolithic metalwork in north-eastern Aegean: reconstructing chaînes opératoires from archaeological material”
D. Ioannides, R. Campbell, M. Boyd, and T. Rehren, “Recovering the Unseen: Micro Residues and Metallurgical Practice in the Early Cycladic Bronze Age”
A. Charalampous, M. Roggenbucke, E. Filippaki, and Y. Papadatos, “Functional assessment of bronze weapons from a ‘warrior burial’ at Plasi Marathon: archaeological and analytical perspectives”
A. Nikolopoulou, “Forms of Copper and Modes of Circulation in the Bronze Age Aegean”
E. Dotsika, P. Meratzis, P. Gamaletsos, and P.-L. Poutoukis, “Bioapatite δ¹⁸O as a Complementary Paleoclimate Proxy in Greece: Insights from the Neolithic to the Present”
D. Skoulikari, J. Bendle, G. Iliopoulos, C.-C. Shen, D. Sahy, M. Campbell, H. Vonhof, and V. Ersek, “A Detailed Climatic Context for Crete, Greece: Speleothem-Based Climate Reconstruction from the Late Bronze Age to Present”
M. Wittenberger, “The Golden Fleece, between legend and reality”
P. Pavuk and C. Hale, “Minoans Who? Decentering the ‘Big Two’ to Reclaim Regional Agency in the Central and Northern Aegean Middle Bronze Age”
L. Dautais and J. Rutter, “Tracing the Regional Provenance of Late Helladic IIA Ceramic Imports in Crete and Egypt: A Typo-Stylistic Approach”
V. Verešová, “Egyptian, Syrian, or Aegean? Entangled Iconographies of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium BCE”
C. Lindesay, “‘Asiatic’ Aegeans in Egyptian tombs: The interconnectivity of the Aegean and Levant, through the Egyptian record (ca.1479-1352 BCE)”
E. Bentley and S. Cox, “Traveling magic: Mediterranean exchange of childbirth protection and legitimacy”
L. Hitchcock, “Surfing the Entangled Mediterranean Web: If Water is the Network, Bronze is the Surfboard”
O. Chatys, “Tanaya: A Discussion of Evidence or of Premise?”
U. Matic, “Ancient Egyptian toponym Mnws-Kingdom of Pylos?”
K. Giannakos, “Was Henti, Queen of Hittite Great King Suppiluliuma I, an Achaean Princess Named (χ) Ἑνδηίς or (χ)Ἧτις-(χ)Ἥτεια?”
L. Phialon, “Seas Apart? Differences and Similarities in the Use of Kraters in the Second Millennium BCE Aegean and West Anatolia”
P. Meratzis, P. Gamaletsos, P. Karalis, P.-L. Poutoukis, A. Chrysostomou, and E. Dotsika, “Environmental and Cultural Signals in Human Remains: A δ³⁴S Multi-Isotope Study from Mainland Greece”

UISPP 2026

On 31 August – 4 September 2026 the XXI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP 2026) will be held in Poznań, Poland. Further information is available at https://uispp2026.syskonf.pl/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
N. Correa da Silva e Vargas, “Digging in the Archive: Reassessing The Blegen Excavations At Troy Through Legacy Data”
J. Czebreszuk, K. Nikolentzos, K. Kostanti, I. Sobkowiak-Tabaka, J. Proch, M. Kontaki, P. Lazaris, and T. Zygouris, “Archaeometric Analysis of Mycenaean Amber from the Hellenic Archaeological Mission Authority (HAMA) Collection in 2026”
A. Hafner et al., “Early waterfront settlements between the Aegean and the Adriatic (6000-600 BCE). Chronologies, land use and environmental adaptation”
A. Hafner and M. Brunner, “Rapid Cultural Change and shifts in 4th and 3rd millennium BCE”
H. Wrobel Nørgaard, D. Berger, and H. Vandkilde, “On the trail of metal-driven interaction on Sardinia in the early first millennium BCE”
M. Poultsidis and C. Meramveliotaki, “The Knossos–Troy Axis: Spatial Analysis of Aegean Archaeological Sites and Their Geometric Correspondence with the Draco Constellation”
C. Meramveliotaki, M. Zerva, and S. Kollias, “Insights from Zakros and Stonehenge: Architecture, Astronomy and Intercultural Connections in the European Bronze Age”
M. Poultsidis and C. Meramveliotaki, “Geometric Spatial Relations and Alignments of Minoan Sacred Sites: Caves, Peak Sanctuaries and Regional Networks”
C. Meramveliotaki and M. Poultsidis, “Constellations of Cassiopeia and Andromeda: Celestial Mirroring and Geometric Correspondence in Five Minoan Rings”
A. Ulanowska, N. Buławka, S. Alvanos, C. Chatzisavvas, G. Ioannakis, T. Pappas, M. Truszkowski, and K. Żebrowska, “From Clay to Code: Advancing the Study of Textile Imprints on Clay through Experimental Training Data and AI”
J. Wilczyński, “Professor Janusz Krzysztof Kozłowski – a tireless researcher of the Stone Age”
A. R. Giumlia-Mair, S. C. Ferrence, P. P. Betancourt, and M. Tsipopoulou, “Gold Beads from Petras in Minoan Crete: Shapes, Composition, and Technology”
S. Pail and B. Horejs, “Reading Fire in Clay: Archaeometric Approaches to Burnt Architecture in the Neolithic”

31 July 2026

Koukounaries on Paros

On 6–7 June 2026 and international symposium in memory of Demetrius U. Schilardi entitled Koukounaries on Paros: An Assessment of Past and Recent Research was held at Naousa, Paros. Further information is available at https://www.academia.edu/144606071/KOUKOUNARIES_ON_PAROS_AN_ASSESSMENT_OF_PAST_AND_RECENT_RESEARCH_INTERNATIONAL_SYMPOSIUM_IN_MEMORY_OF_DEMETRIUS_U_SCHILARDI. The program was:
S. Katsarou, “The site in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age and its Aegean context”
I. Zogkos, “The architecture of the LH IIIC ‘Mansion’ in the context of the Cyclades”
R. B. Koehl, “Mycenaean pottery and small finds from the acropolis hill”
J. W. Earle, “The LH IIIC Late Reoccupation of the Mycenaean 'Mansion': Evidence from Excavation Square D4”
S. Spanos, “The site during the Mycenaean period. The Lower Plateau, the area of the tombs and the Temple-temenos area”
C. Brenner, “Observations on the Mycenaean textile tools”
E. Prevedorou, “People in ruins? The human skeletal remains from the Mycenaean acropolis”
A. Mazarakis Ainian, “The architecture of the acropolis of Koukounaries in the Early Iron Age in the context of the Cyclades”
T. K. Garonis, “The Early Iron Age pottery from the settlement of Koukounaries in context”
A. R. Knodell, D. Athanasoulis, T. K. Garonis, E. I. Levine, D. Nenova, H. Ç. Öztürk, A. Papadimitriou, and Z. Papadopoulou, “Filizi, Oikonomou, and the Bay of Naousa in the Geometric and Archaic periods: A landscape perspective”
A. Papadimitriou, “The Tholos at Paroikia in the Geometric and Archaic periods: archaeological data and interpretation of the site”
Y. Kourayos, I. Daifa, and A. Alexandridou, “From settlers to worshippers: The Parian presence on Despotiko during the Geometric and Archaic periods”
M. Bastide, “Thasos in the Early Iron Age and the chronology of the Parian colonization”

31 July 2026

The July 2026 summer communications from Nestor (53.7) are available as a free download.

30 June 2026