On 30 June 2015 abstracts (200 words maximum) are due for papers, workshops, and posters at the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (10ICAANE), to be held on 25-29 April 2016 at OREA (Institut für Orientalische und Europäische Archäologie, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria. Further information is available at http://www.orea.oeaw.ac.at/10icaane.html. Special consideration will be given to the following themes:
Transformation and Migration
Archaeology of Religion and Rituals
Ancient Near Eastern Environments: Shifts, Impacts, and Adaptations
Prehistoric and Historical Landscapes and Settlement Patterns
Economy and Society
Excavation Reports and Summaries
Images in Context: Agencies, Audiences, and Perception
On 15-19 April 2015 the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA 2015) will held in San Francisco, CA. Further information is available at http://www.saa.org/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
K. DiBenedetto and L. Keach, "Playing with Fire at 'Ais Giorkis: A Geospatial Analysis of Prehistoric Fire Residue"
L. Keach, "Geospatial Analysis of Areal (Polygonal) Units: Applications at the Site Level in Neolithic Cyprus"
A. Basiran and C. M. Erek, "Direkli Cave: Aerial Photography of an Epipaleolithic Site"
On 17 April 2015, 6:30 pm, S. Lupack will address the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts, One East 78th Street, NY, New York on "The Mycenaean Worship of an Ancestral Wanax." Guests are always welcome; please R.S.V.P. 212-992-5803 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
On 7-8 May 2015 an international conference entitled First Textiles. The Beginnings of Textile Manufacture in Europe and the Mediterranean will be held at the National Museum of Denmark (http://natmus.dk/en/) and the Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen (http://ctr.hum.ku.dk/) in Copenhagen. Further information is available at http://ctr.hum.ku.dk/conferences/2015/First_Textiles_Conference_preliminary_programme.pdf. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
K. Sarri, "Textiles, baskets and pots: decorative craft transfer in the Aegean Neolithic"
A. Ulanowska, "More observations on functionality of Early Bronze Age textile tools from Greece"
G. Gavalas, "Textile tools and manufacture in the Early Bronze Age Cyclades: the evidence from Amorgos and Keros islands"
L. Völling, "Spindle whorls in Troy? A critical examination of a common opinion"
M. R. Belgiorno, "Pyrgos/Mavroraki textile production in 2000"
13th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium
On 9-13 June 2015 the 13th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium will be held in Gothenburg. Further information is available at http://bronsalderssymposiet.gu.se/english. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
M. Siennicka, "(In)Visible fibres? Textile production in the Early Bronze Age Greece (the 3rd millennium BC)"
A.-L. Schallin, "Amber and ritual at Mycenaean Dendra - The Baltic connection"
H. Whittaker, "The North from the Perspective of the Greek Mainland in the Late Bronze Age"
S. Sabatini, "Late Bronze Age Oxhide and oxhide-like ingots between Scandinavia and the Mediterranean: problems and challenges"
E. Pernicka, D. Berger, G. Brügmann, C. Frank, and B. Nessel, "Discovering Bronze Age Trade routes: archeological evidences and the potential of Tin Isotopes"
J. Ling and L. Melheim, "The Mediterranean turn: the importation of south European copper to Scandinavia and Atlantic maritime trade routes"
On 11-12 April 2015 the 8th IEMA Visiting Scholar Spring Conference: Water and Power in Past Societies was held at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Further information is available at http://iema.buffalo.edu/conference/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
S. Manning, "Drought and history in the Mediterranean: known knowns and known unknowns"
Necmi Karul, "The Effects of Changes in Rivers and Coastlines on Prehistoric Settlements in Anatolia"
