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On 8-9 December 2016 an international workshop entitled Gathered in Death: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives on Collective Burial and Social Organisation will take place at Salle du Sénat Académique, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). Further information is available at http://sites.uclouvain.be/arc-crisis/?p=14703%3E. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

C. Knüsel, E. Schotsmans, and S. Haddow, "House Societies, Ancestors, and Burials at Neolithic Çatalhöyük: Attempting to Disentangle Collective and Multiple Burials"

B. Legarra Herrero, "Collective burials and the creation of communities in the 3rd and 2nd Millennium Mediterranean: Crete and southeast Iberia"

N. Papadimitriou and D. Catapoti, "Performing the 'collective' in Early Minoan and Early Mycenaean funerals"

Οι Αχαιοί στην Ελλάδα. Gli Achei in Grecia

On 12-13 December 2016 a conference entitled Οι Αχαιοί στην Ελλάδα και στη Μεγάλη Ελλάδα: νέα ευρήματα και νέες προοπτικές. Gli Achei in Grecia e in Magna Grecia: nuove scoperte e nuove prospettive will be held at the Πολύκεντρο - Συνεδριακό Κέντρο Αιγίου. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

E. Borgna and A. G. Vordos, "Micenei e Achei. Note preliminari sull'occupazione della Trapezà tra la fine dell'età del bronzo e la prima età storica"

Β. Αργυρόπουλος, "Ευρήματα των Μυκηναϊκών και των Μέσων Γεωμετρικών χρόνων σε Μεσοελλαδικό κτιστό κιβωτιόσχημο τάφο στην περιοχή των Φαρών. Η ερμηνεία των στοιχείων"

Ι. Μόσχος and Φ. Ζ. Αλεξοπούλου, "Η Μυκηναϊκή νεκρόπολη των Πατρών μεταξύ Ανατολής και Δύσης"

Ι. Μόσχος, "Πολιτικές και Κοινωνικές εξελιξεις κατά την μετάβαση στους Ιστορικούς χρόνους"

Μ. Γκαζής and Κ. Ακτύπη, "Η χρήση του Μυκηναϊκού νεκροταφείου της Βούντενης Πατρών κατά την Πρωτογεωμετρική και τη Γεωμετρική περίοδο"

Γυναίκες της Μεσογείου

On 11 September 2016 a conference entitled Γυναίκες της Μεσογείου. Γυναικείες Παρουσίες στην Προϊστορίατης Κρήτης και του Αιγαίου was held in Iraklion. Further information is available at http://www.heraklion.gr/municipality/municipality-press-releases/heraklion-cultural-festival-pente-syn-enas-politismoi-hmerida-gynaikes-mesogeios-110916.html. The program was:

L. Goodison, "Sun/moon gender perceptions. Evidence for a female sun in the prehistoric Aegean"

Χ. Μαραγκού, "Θήλεια πλάσματα: Aπομιμήσεις του αισθητού και είδωλα του φαντασιακού κόσμου. Ερμηνευτικές προσεγγίσεις της γυναικείας εικονογραφίας στο πρώιμο προϊστορικό Αιγαίο και τις γειτονικές περιοχές"

Κ. Κόπακα, "Γυναίκες στο προϊστορικό Αιγαίο και τη μινωική Κρήτη. Μια αναστοχαστική αφήγηση"

Egyptian Commerce and Communication

On 12 September 2016 a conference entitled Undercurrents: new work on Egyptian commerce and communication outside the Nile valley was held at the University of Liverpool. Further information is available at https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/archaeology-classics-and-egyptology/undercurrents-conference/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

M. Montesanto, "Use and appreciation of the Aegean-inspired pottery at Alalakh in the Early Iron Age"

M. Cultraro, "All not so quiet on the western front: Manifold patterns of Cypriot-Aegean interactions in Egypt, North Africa and Sicily during the New Kingdom"

A. Hodgkinson, "Amara and Uluburun: archaeological evidence of long-distance trade of Egyptian glass ingots?"

Cyprus

On 24 September 2016 a conference entitled Four Decades of Hiatus in Archaeological Research in Cyprus: Towards Restoring the Balance was held in Lefkosia. Further information is available at http://www.moi.gov.cy/MOI/pio/pio2013.nsf/All/94A1CCB38FAD6FF9C22580350044CD79?OpenDocument&L=E. The program was:

M. Mina, "Piecing together the prehistoric archaeological record: the view through the Cyprus Museum storage rooms and archival material"

E. Alphas, "From a Bronze Age tomb in Cyprus to the estate of a gentleman in Sussex: measures taken and problems faced in the investigations on the illicit trade of antiquities"

A. H. Simmons, "Protecting and preserving the 'deep time' prehistory of Cyprus"

On 27-28 September 2016 a conference entitled The Aegean and the Levant at the Turn of the Bronze and Iron Ages was held at the University of Warsaw. Further information is available at http://www.ihuw.pl/system/files/announcement-attachments/program_konferencji_the_aegean_and_the_levant_at_the_turn_of_the_bronze_and_iron_ages.pdf. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

A. Maeir, "The Philistines: 'Things ain't what they used to be'"

R. Oreshko, "Ahhiyawa - Danu(na) - Palasti(na). Aegean Ethnica in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Light of Old and New Hieroglyphic-Luwian Evidence"

Z. Simon, "What do we really know about the Philistine language?"

On 1 October 2016 a conference entitled Έρευνα και προβολή του αρχαιολογικού υφάσματος στην Ελλάδα was held at ICOM - Hellenic National Committee in Athens. Further information is available at http://www.museology.gr/events/artex. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

Δ. Σφακιανάκης: “Ρίξε κάτι πάνω σου. εναλλακτικοί τρόποι ένδυσης και σχήματα μινωικών ρούχων"

Χ. Κουκούλη Χρυσανθάκη, Σ. Παπαδόπουλος, Σ. Βακιρτζή, and Δ. Κεχαγιάς, “Προϊστορική κλωστοϋφαντουργία . Η περίπτωση της Σκάλας Σωτήρος Θάσου”

Τ. Μπολώτη, “Ύφάσματα και θρησκευτικά δρώμενα στη Γραμμική Β”

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