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AURA

A new journal has been announced: the Athens University Review of Archaeology (AURA), an international, peer-reviewed archaeological journal published biannually by the Department of Archaeology and History of Art of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The journal will publish original papers in Greek or English about archaeology, art and material culture of the broader Hellenic world, from early Prehistory to Modern times, as well as about Environmental Archaeology, Archaeometry, Museology, and Computer Applications in Art and Archaeology. The range of studies will include synthetic works, reports on excavations and field surveys, studies of archaeological material or works of art, various case studies, as well as preliminary publications of on-going research projects dealing with the scientific areas described above. There will also be an AURA Supplement series, comprising monographs in Greek or English with the same areas of interest as the journal, and will include monographs, edited volumes, conference proceedings, and publications of excavations, archaeological material or works of art. Both AURA journal and AURA Supplements are open-access publications published electronically as a PDF file, with printing restrictions. Further information and author and submission guidelines are available at http://aura.arch.uoa.gr/aura/ or via email from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Études Crétoises

The Études Crétoises series is now available online at http://cefael.efa.gr/result.php?site_id=1&serie_id=EtCret.

Honouring Odysseus

On 3 March 2017 a conference entitled Honouring Odysseus: celebrating the work of Robert Laffineur will be held at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Further information is available at http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/news/eventDetails/honouring-odysseus-celebrating-the-work-of-robert-laffineur. The program will be:

J. Driessen, "Honouring Odysseus: celebrating the work of Robert Laffineur"

E. Kountouri, "Ερευνώτας τη μυκηναϊκή βόρεια Κωπαΐδα: επιφανειακές και ανασκαφικές έρευνες κατά την περίοδο 2011-2016 / Investigating the Mycenaean Northern Kopais: surface survey and excavation research during the period 2011-2016"

J. Wright, "Revolutionizing the social order and the creation of a Mycenaean visual culture"

J. Bennet, "ko-wi-ro-wo-ko (and other specialists in the Mycenaean documents)"

R. Laffineur, "Travelling the World. Thirty Years of Rencontres égéennes internationals/ International Aegean Conferences"

The Archaeology of Forced Migration

On 16-17 March 2017 a workshop entitled The Archaeology of Forced Migration: Conflict-induced Movement and Refugees in the Mediterranean at the End of the 13th c. BC will be held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Further information is available at https://sites.google.com/minoan-aegis.net/migration. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

J. Driessen and J. Bretschneider: Introduction

Y. Hamilakis, "A Migration Crisis? Displacement, materiality, and experience"

K. Nowicki, "The Late 13th Century BC Crisis in the East Mediterranean: Why the case of Crete matters"

On 20-24 March 2017 an international open workshop entitled Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes V will be held in Kiel, Germany. Further information is available at http://www.workshop-gshdl.uni-kiel.de/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

E. Marinova, B. de Cupere, D. Frémondeau, P. Georgiev, I. Hristova, L. Ninov, K. Nikov, and H. Popov, "Bioarchaeological and geoarchaeological evidence on the living conditions in southeastern Bulgaria during the 2nd and 1st millennium BC"

J. Whitley, "The multiple pasts of Archaic Greece: the landscapes of Crete and the Argolid 900-500 BCE"

K. Dudlik, "Creation of memory? Tumulus from Lerna in context of EH III – LH I Argolis"

On 24-26 March 2017 a conference entitled Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies Conference (SSB 2017) will be held at the University of Southampton, U.K. Further information is available at https://www.sssbconference.co.uk/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

S. Kiorpe, "Commingled entities: the secondary manipulation of the dead in Early Bronze Age House Tomb 5, Kephala Petras, Siteia, Crete"

SAA2017

On 29 March - 2 April 2017 the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeologists (SAA2017) will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia. Further information is available at http://www.saa.org/AbouttheSociety/AnnualMeeting/tabid/138/Default.aspx. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

L. Gonzalez Carretero and D. Q. Fuller, "9,000-Year-Old Cereal Meals: New Methods for the Analysis of Charred Food Remains from Çatalhöyük East (Turkey)"

B. Tung, "Excavation Narratives and Reflexive Practices at Çatalhöyük"

D. Lukas and C. Engel, "Changing Technologies, Changing Practices: The Transformation of the Çatalhöyük Research Database"

On 6 April 2017 a workshop entitled Ritualizing Funerary Practices in the Prehistoric Aegean: acts of transforming and viewing the human body will be held by the Department of Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in collaboration with the Institute of Classical Archaeology of the University of Heidelberg. Further information is available at http://www.hist.auth.gr/el/content/%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B1-ritualizing-funerary-practices-prehistoric-aegean-06042017. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

S. Triantaphyllou and D. Panagiotopoulos, "Ritualizing death: acts of transforming and viewing the human body"

G. Panagopoulou, "Αspects of spatial organization using the Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The example of the manipulation of the dead in Neolithic Greek Macedonia"

A. Ion, "Broken bodies: addressing the dynamics of postmortem depositions in Neolithic settlements from the Balkan area"

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  2. February 2017 issue available
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