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New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium

The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium has announced their schedule of lectures for spring 2023. All lectures will take place on Zoom and begin at 12 pm EST. Further information is available at https://nyabac.tumblr.com/.
Monday, 13 February 2023: E. Egan, “Death and the Pylos Megaron”
Tuesday, 28 March 2023: N. Abell, “An Exploration of Mechanisms of Interaction and Exchange in the MBA–LBA Cyclades”

 

AIA & SCS 2023

On 5-8 January 2023 the Annual Joint Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and Society for Classical Studies (AIA & SCS 2023) will be held in New Orleans, LA. Further information is available at http://www.archaeological.org and https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/detailed-preliminary-program-sessions-2023. Based on the preliminary program, papers, posters, and workshops of interest to Nestor readers will include:
J. M. Engstrom, “Carl Blegen and Homeric Troy: An Archival History of the Origins and Objectives of the University of Cincinnati Troy Expedition”
M. J. Daniels, K. Archibald, and L. Hickox, “The Nude Female in Eastern and Central Crete, 900-600 BCE: Between Foreign Imports and Local Landscapes”
F. Georma, I. Nikolakopoulou, and I. Bitis, “Building Beta at Akrotiri, Thera. New Excavation Data and 3D Architectural rReconstruction”
A. Koh, C. Floyd, T. Luke, J. Fu, and I. Liritzis, “The Southern Phokis Regional Project: Results of the 2022 field season at Desfina-Kastrouli and Its Environs”
J. S. Soles, C. Davaras, C. Sophianou, and G. Doudalis, “The 2021-2022 Greek-American Excavations at Mochlos, Crete”
Z. Tankosic, F. Mavridis, P. Zafeiriadis, A. Psoma, D. Nenova, and H. Öztürk, “Gourimadi Archaeological Project: The Summary of the First Five Years of Fieldwork”
C. Knappett, A. Shapland, C. Sofianou, and T. Theodoulou, “Coastal Excavations at the Bronze Age Town of Palaikastro, East Crete”
E. Oddo, J. Day, and C. Trainor, “KLASP 2022: Preliminary Results from the Knossos Legacy and Sustainable Archaeology Project”
R. A. K. Smith, “The Late Minoan I to Late Minoan III Transition: A Ceramic Perspective from Gournia”
C. J. Sturge, “Plain Tableware as an indicator of Mainland Influence at Final Palatial Knossos”
G. Doudalis, “Living on the Edge? Exploring Cultural Boundaries in the Mirabello Area from MM IB to MM IIIB (ca. 1900-1600 B.C.E.)”
D. Nadal Koussiounelos, “The Formation and Contacts of Laconian Sanctuaries during the LBA and EIA Periods”
T. Carter, S. Crewson, M. Georgakopoulou, K. Hall, C. Murphy, and D. Athanasoulis, “The Production and Use of Minoan Anthropomorphic Bronze Votives: Insights from the Peak Sanctuary at Stelida, Naxos”
K. E. Stiles and C. S. Jazwa, “A Chronology of Mobility and Interment at the Late Bronze Age Site of Golemi Agios Georgios, Greece”
D. Easton, J. Stora, and B. Weninger, “New Radiocarbon Dates Confirm a Gap in Blegen’s Early Bronze Age Sequence at Troy”
M. G. Hyytiainen-Jacobson, “So, What? Contextualizing Dental Anomalies at Aidonia”
L. Kaiser, “Stirring the Cooking Pot: An Anthropological Interpretation of Cooking Technology at Early Bronze Age Mochlos”
Y. Kourayos, “Despotiko Excavation and Restoration Project: Twenty-Five Years in the Making”
A. Alexandridou, “Life on the Islet of Despotiko in the Early Iron Age: Moving away from the Sacred-Profane Polarity”
P. Johnson, “Dissolution or Collapse? The Early Iron Age in the Western Borderlands of the Hittite Empire”
R. Phillips, “Affective Gold: Exploring Materiality in Early Mycenaean Burials”
V. Tsikritea, “Shaping Offerings: Technology and Craft of Early Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Sanctuary on Mt. Juktas, Crete”
S. C. Murray, M. McHugh, M. Clinton, R. Stephan, G. Erny, J. Frankl, M. Godsey, E. Chreiazomenou, B. Lis, P. Sapirstein, and C. Pratt, “The Bays of East Attica Regional Survey: Results of the 2022 Season”
A. R. Knodell, D. Athanasoulis, J. F. Cherry, M. Giannakopoulou, E. Levine, D. Nenova, H. Öztürk, and Ž. Tankosić, “The Small Cycladic Islands Project 2022: An Archaeological Survey of Polyaigos and the Uninhabited Islets near Milos and Kimolos”
A. Dakouri-Hild, E. Andrikou, S. Davis, A. Agapiou, P. Bes, X. Charalambidou, M. Chidiroglou, T. Kinnaird, S. McGary, W. Rourk, K. Sarri, and A. Yangaki, “The Kotroni Archaeological Survey Project (KASP) at Ancient Afidna in Northern Attica: Results of the Second and Third Seasons (2021, 2022)”
A. Kotsonas, “Lyktos Archeological Project (Crete): First Results on the Archaeology of the Early Iron Age to Classical Periods”
M. J. Haagsma, S. Karapanou, G. Toufexis, M. Aiken, G. Canlas, C. M. Chykerda, E. Middleton, A. Wiznura, and A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, “The Central Achaia Phthiotis Survey (CAPS), results of the 2020-2022 seasons”
D. Scahill, “The Aigeira Archaeological Project: Preliminary Results on the Architectural Landscape at Aigeira in the Northern Peloponnese”
S. German and A. Simandiraki-Grimshaw (organizers); B. Burke, S. Lupack, J. McEnroe, J. E. Morrison, C. Murphy, and S. M. Valamoti-Kapetanaki (panelists): Outside the Network: Non-Elites and ‘Other’ in the Aegean Bronze Age (workshop)
S. C. Murray, M. McHugh, M. Clinton, R. Stephan, G. Erny, J. Frankl, M. Godsey, E. Chreiazomenou, B. Lis, P. Sapirstein, and C. Pratt, “The Bays of East Attica Regional Survey: Results of the 2022 Season”
S. L. Hilker, “Localized Habitation Mobility in Mycenaean Greece”
J. R. Baxley Craig, “A Preliminary Spatial and Contextual Analysis of Ground Stone Tools from House A at Ayia Irini, Kea”
M. C. Harder and K. Mallinson, “The Topography of Non-Cretan Peak Sanctuaries: New Perspectives on Minoan-like Cult Sites”
E. Fuller, “The Power of the Liminal: A Reassessment of the Relationship Between Kommos and Phaistos in the Protopalatial Period”
G. Paglione, “Building Roads in the Kingdom of Nestor? Some Thoughts on the Role of to-ko-do-mo in PY An 35”
L. Kvapil, “Warriors Across the Divide at LBA Aidonia”
G. Price, “Keeping it in the Family: Relatedness and Mortuary Trends Among the Interred at Aidonia”
S. Cushman and E. Keyser, “Small Finds in Situ: A Contextual and Diachronic Analysis of Grave Assemblages at Aidonia”
B. Gillespie, C. Hall, and D. Sakkas, “Ritual, Iconography, and Identity: Object Case Studies from the Aidonia Tombs”
D. Wheeler, “(Re)Performance and the Mycenaean Funeral: A Case Study from Aidonia”
S. Kimmey, “What comes next? Aidonia after the Bronze Age”
A. Van de Moortel, “Life and Death in Prepalatial Elite Building H at Mitrou, Central Greece”
J. Meier, T. Lynn, and K. Shelton, “The Catalog of Sheep(s): Faunal Records of Caprines at Petsas House, Mycenae”
O. A. Jones, “Small but Mighty: A Multifaceted Approach to Mycenaean Infant Burial Practices”
M. G. Clinton, “The Tombs of Mouliana Sellades: Architectural Influence and Cultural Syncretism in East Crete at the End of the Bronze Age”
A. M. Gaggioli, “Geoarchaeology and Soil Micromorphology Perspectives on Late Helladic Burial and Ritual at Eleon, Greece”
B. R. Jones, “The Kilts on the ‘Cupbearer’ and Men on the Procession Fresco from Knossos”
J. McInerney, ‘Pelasgians and Penestai: Class, Race, Ethnicity in Ancient Greece’
C. Zhang, “Remarks on Myc. ra-wa-ke-ta and Dor. λᾱγέτᾱς”

 

Social Groups and Production in Mycenaean Economies

On 24-25 February 2023 the Spring 2023 Langford Conference on Social Groups and Production in Mycenaean Economies will be sponsored by the Department of Classics at Florida State University. Further information is available from Daniel J. Pullen at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The program will be:
N. Abell, “Crafting communities and constellations of practice: An exploration of production and exchange networks in the earlier LBA southern Aegean”
P. M. Day and E. Kardamaki, “Potting Communities during the Mycenaean Palatial Period”
A. Dill, “Craft Industries at Kalamianos”
J. Driessen, “A House Divided? Social structure before, during and after the Mycenaean administration at Knossos”
M. L. Galaty and W. A. Parkinson, “Not a Great Kingdom: Mycenaean Economic Variation as a Measure of Nonintegration”
S. C. Murray, “Mycenaean Economic Institutions, Expensive Exchange, and the Theory of the Firm”
D. Nakassis, “Reading between the lines: textual evidence for socioeconomic organization in the Mycenaean world”
K. Shelton, “Petsas House: potters, the workshop, and ceramic production in Mycenae’s society and economy”
T. F. Tartaron, “Social Groups in the Mycenaean Maritime Economy”
S. Voutsaki, “Kinship and the roots of inequality in pre-palatial Laconia”

Relations between the Indus and the Aegean in the Bronze Age

On 3-4 December 2022 an international workshop on Relations between the Indus and the Aegean in the Bronze Age was held at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. Further information is available from Prof. Robert Arnott at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The program was:
S. Ratnagar, “Old Assumptions Die Hard”
R. Arnott, “Crossing Continents: between the Indus and the Aegean in prehistory”
G. Ludvik and J. M. Kenoyer, “Indus-Aegean Interaction in the third millennium BCE: a comparative analysis of Indus style carnelian beads in the Aegean, the Near East and the Indus”
S. Ferrence, A. Giumlia-Mair, P. Betancourt, and M. Tsipopoulou, “The Junction Point: New Evidence for Long Distance Trade between Minoan Crete and the East”
M. N. Pareja, “Polyvalent power and Bronze Age Ideologies: goddesses of paradoxical duality”
M. Porter, “The iconography of game animals in Afro-Eurasia”
A.-E. Kechagias, “The ancient views of India and Ethiopia as evidence for intercultural contacts between Bronze Age India and the Mediterranean”
C. Schwall, M. Numrich, and E. Pernicka, “Early Bronze Age Gold Finds in the Aegean, Anatolia and beyond: a marker for increasing social complexity and connectivity”
P. Stockhammer, A. Scott, and C. Warinner, “Evidence of long-distance movement of food between South Asia and the Southern Levant in the second millennium BCE”
S. Muthukumaran, “The Eastern Milieu of the Gilgamesh Epic”
S. Durnford, “Assessing the limited linguistic evidence”

 

Πρωτοπόροι της Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας

On 14-15 December 2022 a workshop entitled Ηeinrich Schliemann, Χρήστος Τσούντας, Παναγιώτης Σταματάκης. Πρωτοπόροι της Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας was held at National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Further information is available at https://www.namuseum.gr/new/imerida-quot-protoporoi-tis-proistorikis-archaiologias-sto-ethniko-archaiologiko-moyseio-quot-15-dekemvrioy-2022/. Tapes of the lectures will be available at https://www.blod.gr. The program was:
J. Davis and S. Stocker, “Standing on the Shoulders of Which Giants?”
Κ. Νικολέντζος, “Η Γένεση της Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας στην Ελλάδα – ιστορικό πλαίσιο και ιδεολογικά προτάγματα”
Γ. Βαβουρανάκης and Ι. Μπούζα, “Πρωτοπορία και μεταιχμιακότητα: η μυκηναϊκή αρχαιολογία στα τέλη του 19ου και στις αρχές του 20ου αιώνα”
N. Vogeikoff-Brogan and Ε. Δαλέζιου, “Το αρχείο του Ερρίκου Σλήμαν στα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα: διαφύλαξη, συντήρηση, πρόσβαση και μετάβαση στον ψηφιακό κόσμο”
M. S. Bertram Scheibe, “The influence of Rudolf Virchow on Heinrich Schliemann’s Excavation and Research Methods”
Χ. Τσέλιος, “Heinrich Schliemann – Χρήστος Τσούντας. Πέρα από τη μορφή. Η πρώιμη περιπέτεια της Αρχαιομετρίας στην Ελλάδα του 19ου αιώνα”
Μ.-Ξ. Γαρέζου and Α. Χατζηδημητρίου, “Γύρω από τον Παναγιώτη Σταματάκη: Οι περιπέτειες ενός αρχαιολόγου και η περιπλάνηση των καταλοίπων του”
Ν. Βασιλικού, “Από τον εμπειρισμό στη μέθοδο”
Α. Παπαδημητρίου, “Οι έρευνες του Ερρίκου Σλήμαν στην Τίρυνθα”
Β. Πλιάτσικα, “Ανακτώντας τον χαμένο χρόνο. Νέα πολύτιμα τεκμήρια της δράσης του Χρήστου Τσούντα στις Μυκήνες”
Ε. Κωνσταντινίδη, “Το ανασκαφικό ημερολόγιο Μυκηνών του Παναγιώτη Σταματάκη και η πολύτιμη συμβολή του στην επανεξέταση του Ταφικού Κύκλου Α”
Κ. Πασχαλίδης, “‘( ... ) έρρωσο. Ερρίκος Σχλιέμανν’. Η ανακάλυψη του Μυκηναϊκού Πολιτισμού και η δημιουργία του Μυκηναίου Μουσείου μέσα από τις αναφορές των πρωταγωνιστών της”
Α. Μπάτζιου, “Σύντομη επισκόπηση του αρχαιολογικού έργου του Χρήστου Τσούvτα στη Μαγνησία μέσα από τη ματιά του σήμερα”
Κ. Κωστάντη, “Αγώγι εις Διμήνι, δραχμαί 9’. Οι περιοδείες του Χρήστου Τσούvτα στη Θεσσαλία το 1905-1906 μέσα από το οικονομικό – ταξιδιωτικό του σημειωματάριο”
Κ. Μαντέλη, “Τα νεολιθικά ειδώλια από τις ανασκαφές του Χρήστου Τσούvτα στο Σέσκλο και το Διμήνι: η μαρτυρία από τα ημερολόγια του και τηv δημοσίευση του 1908”
Κ. Βουτσά, “Η Σίφνος του Χρήστου Τσούvτα μέσα από τηv ανάγνωση του ημερολογίου του”
Γ. Κορρές, “Η επανεμφάνιση του ‘Θησαυρού του Πριάμου’ στα τέλη του 20ου αιώνα”

Changing of the Guard at INSTAP

The Institute for Aegean Prehistory has sent the following announcement regarding the changing of the guard at INSTAP:
Prof. Philip Betancourt has retired as Director of The Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) on October 22nd. He is the founding Director of INSTAP and has served with dedication and distinction for the past 41 years.
The INSTAP Board of Trustees has elected as his successor Dr. Thomas Brogan, who has served as the Director of the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete since 1997. Dr. Brogan will remain at his post on Crete in his expanded role as Director of The Institute for Aegean Prehistory.
Dr. Susan Ferrence continues in her role as Director of the INSTAP
Academic Press located in Philadelphia. Dr. Konstantinos Chalikias and
Dr. Jason Earle, recently named Assistant Directors of The Institute for Aegean Prehistory, remain in those roles with a focus on Administration and Grants respectively.
Malcolm H. Wiener, the Founder of The Institute for Aegean Prehistory
and the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, retired as Vice President of both Boards. He remains an INSTAP Trustee and has accepted the title Chairman Emeritus for the Study Center.
Finally, the Trustees have elected as President of both Boards Prof. Jeffrey Soles, a long-serving Trustee of INSTAP and the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete and the director of the Mochlos Excavation Project.
The editors of Nestor thank the retiring INSTAP officials for their years of service to the study of Aegean prehistory and congratulate the appointees.

Michael Ventris Award

On 1 February 2023 applications are due for the Michael Ventris Award for Mycenaean Studies for 2023 (up to £2500), to be awarded to scholars who have obtained a doctorate within the past eight years or postgraduate students about to complete the doctorate in the field of Mycenaean civilization or kindred subjects, to promote research in (1) Linear B and other Bronze Age scripts of the Aegean and Cyprus and their historical and cultural connections, or (2) all other aspects of the Bronze Age of the Aegean and Cyprus. Applications (6 pages maximum) should be sent by email, ideally as a PDF attachment to the Classics Manager, Valerie James (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Further information, including detailed application instructions, is available at https://ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/awards-prizes/michael-ventris-award-mycenaean-studies-2023#:~:text=The%20Award%20is%20open%20to,fund%20doctoral%20research%20per%20se.

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  3. Past Lectures and Conferences
  4. November 2022 issue available

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