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On 1-3 June 2016 the International Obsidian Conference will be held in Lipari, Italy. Further information is available at http://rtykot.myweb.usf.edu/Obsidian%202016/index.html. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

M.-P. Montagne, "Consumption of obsidian during the Middle Bronze Age: a use wear analysis of obsidian from Kirrha (Phocis, Greece)"

P. Acquafredda, I. M. Muntoni, and R. H. Tykot, "New data on Antiparos obsidian (Greece) for provenance study by SEM and XRF"

J. A. Morgan, R. H. Tykot, and T. Carter, "Obsidian source selection in the Early Bronze Age Cyclades"

Religious Convergence in the Ancient Mediterranean

On 23-26 June 2016 a conference entitled Religious Convergence in the Ancient Mediterranean will be held at the Villa Whitaker, Palermo, Sicily. Further information is available at http://www.palermo2016.net/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

B. J. Collins, "The 'Arzawa' Rituals and Religious Production in Hittite Anatolia"

M. R. Pitone, "Rituals in Late Bronze Age Southern Etruria and Their Connection with Aegean Cultures"

L. Niesiolowski-Spano. "Philistine Influences on the Cult in Jerusalem?"

Computer Applications Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2016)

On 29 March-2 April 2016 the Computer Applications Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2016) was held in Oslo, Norway. Further information is available at http://caaconference.org/. Papers and posters of interest to

T. K. Tsonev, "Least Cost Path Analysis and Conditional Perception of Prehistoric Travelers"

S. Rutishauser, "Urbanism in the Cilician Plain from Chalcolithic to Byzantine Period"

M. C. Kormann, S. Katsarou, D. Katsonopoulou, and G. Lock, "On roof construction and wall strength: Non-Linear Structural Integrity Analysis of the Early Bronze Age Helike Corridor House"

A. Zanotti, R. Moussa, and J. Bocquet-Appel, "An agent-based modelling approach to a complex problem: economics and demography of the first farming expansion in the Balkans"

9TH IEMA Visiting Scholar Spring Conference

On 2-3 April 2016 the 9TH IEMA Visiting Scholar Spring Conference. Coming Together: Comparative Approaches to Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization was held at the Institute for European and Mediterranean Archeology, State University of New York at Buffalo. Further information is available at http://www.iema.buffalo.edu/conference/. Papers of interest to

A. N. Bilgen and L. Harrison, "Urbanism at a Crossroad: Trade, Settlement, and Society in Early Bronze Age Anatolia"

D. J. Pullen, "If You Build It, Will They Come? Will They Stay? The Mycenaean Port Town of Kalamianos"

R. Osborne, "Why Athens? Population Aggregation in Attica in the Early Iron Age"

SAA 2016

On 6-10 April 2016 the 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA 2016) will be held in Orlando, Florida. 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:

R. Vandam, P. Tomkins, B. Neyt, B. Scott, and P. Degryse, “Investigating the Late Prehistoric (6500-2400 BC) socio-economic landscapes in the Burdur Plain, SW Turkey”

R. Fitzsimons, “Monuments for the Living, Monuments for the Dead: A Stone-by-Stone Guide to Mycenaean State Formation”

G. Price, “Discriminating Tastes: Intra-Species Variation in Exploited Fauna at Mycenae, Greece”

7-8 April 2016 The 4th Students’ and Young Researchers’ Conference in Aegean Archaeology will be held at the Archaeological Museum in Poznań, Poland. Further information is available at https://aegeanconference.wordpress.com/. The program will be:

P. Zeman, “Strategies of a Pottery Acquisition in the Mycenaean Palace at Pylos”

D. Mroczek, “Archaeometric Studies of Mycenaean Pottery”

M. Kosowicz, “Stan badań nad metalurgią Centralnej Macedonii na przełomie epoki brązu i żelaza (1400-1000 r. p.n.e.)”

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