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Unsung Pioneer Women in the Archaeology of Greece

On 8 March 2023 a workshop entitled Unsung Pioneer Women in the Archaeology of Greece will be hosted by the École française d’Athènes. Further information is available at https://www.efa.gr/fr/manifestations-scientifiques/appels-a-communication/2275-appel-a-communication-colloque-unsung-pioneer-women-in-the-archaeology-of-greece. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
D. Douskos, “The problem of elusive figures: Louise Burnouf and contributions to archaeology”
J. Banks, “Alice Leslie Walker Kosmopoulos: A pioneer against all odds”
N. Vogeikoff-Brogan and L. Costaki, “Hazel D. Hansen: A forgotten American prehistorian”
S. Déderix, “Marthe Oulié and the 1923-1925 Excavations of the École française d’Athènes at Malia”
S. Todaro, “Working behind scenes. Luisa Banti and Italian research in Crete between 1930 and 1940: The archaeologist you don’t expect”
M. Cultraro, “A look at Aegean prehistory from Italy: Pia Laviosa Zambotti, a pioneer woman in exploring networks in Mediterranean archaeology”
E. Foley, “Vronwy Hankey in and beyond Greece”
A. Ulanowska and K. Lewartowski, “The first post-World War II generation of female archaeologists at the University of Warsaw: Ludwika Press and the gendered and non-gendered challenges to becoming an Aegeanist within the confines of Marxist ideology and the Iron Curtain”
M. Nikolaidou and D. Kokkinidou, “Angeliki Pilali-Papasteriou (1945-2007): A pioneer prehistorian at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki”
D. Kokkinidou and M. Nikolaidou, “From the museum to the trench and beyond: Greek women in archaeology since the 1950s”

 

ΑΕΜΘ 2023

On 9-10 March 2023 the 35th meeting on Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και τη Θράκη (ΑΕΜΘ 2023). will be held in Thessaloniki. Further information is available at https://www.aemth.gr/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
P. Darcque, Χ. Κουκούλη-Χρυσανθάκη, Δ. Μαλαμίδου, and Ζ. Τσιρτσώνη, “Ανασκαφή στον προϊστορικό οικισμό Φιλίππων – Ντικιλί Τας 2022”
Ο. Πάλλη, Ρ. Βεροπουλίδου, Ι. Ναζλής, Γ. Κουρτέση-Φιλιππάκη, Κ. Κωτσάκης, Σ. Ανδρέου, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Εργαστηριακές δραστηριότητες στο κτήριο Μ στην Τούμπα Θεσσαλονίκης”
N. Zorzin, Δ. Μαλαμίδου, J. Taylor, and Ι. Σουκάντος, “Συστηματική αρχαιολογική έρευνα στον νεολιθικό οικισμό Τούμπας Σερρών 2021-2022”
Δ. Καδή, Α. Σαμούρης, Σ. Χρονάκη, Σ. Ανδρέου, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Η πανεπιστημιακή ανασκαφή στην κορυφή της Τούμπας Θεσσαλονίκης”
Χ. Ζιώτα, “Νεότερα δεδομένα για το προϊστορικό νεκροταφείο της Αχλάδας Φλώρινας”
Γ. Μάνος, “Φευγαλέες ενδείξεις παλαιολιθικής παρουσίας στην Καστοριά”
Κ. Κωτσάκης, “Δισπηλιό και πρόγραμμα EXPLO: οι ξύλινοι πάσσαλοι αποκαλύπτουν την ιστορία του νεολιθικού οικισμού”

 

CAA2023

On 3-6 April 2023 the 50-year anniversary edition of the annual conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA2023): 50 Years of Synergy will be held in Amsterdam. Further information is available at https://2023.caaconference.org/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
R. Rivers, H. C. W. Price, P. Gheorghiade, V. Vasiliauskaite, A. Diachenko, T. Evans, and F. Rossi, “Minoan Assemblage Distributions and Machine Learning”
P. Cuthbertson, P. Tsakanikou, S. Kübler, and N. Galanidou, “Landscape Heterogeneity at the Acheulean Site of Rodafnidia (Lesbos, NE Aegean): Connecting sites and continental models through intermediary scales”
E. Mavros, “Gaming as a Guide to the Past Environments: A Gentle Assistance to Landscape Archaeology in Palaepaphos, Cyprus”
K. A. Crawford, G. Artopoulos, and I. Romanowska, “Does economic exchange drive settlement persistence patterns? Simulating patterns between Cyprus and the Levant during the Late Bronze Age”
P. Gheorghiade, H. C. W. Price, and R. Rivers, “Travelling the wine dark sea – Networks of mobility in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean”
A.-M. Xenaki, “Point Process Modelling of human-landscape relations in Eastern Crete”
P. Kyriakidis and E. Gravanis, “A Framework for Modeling/Simulating Controls, Patterns and Consequences of Maritime Human Mobility Potential in Early Prehistory”

Social Groups and Production in Mycenaean Economies

On 24-25 February 2023 the Spring 2023 Langford Conference entitled Social Groups and Production in Mycenaean Economies was held the Department of Classics at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Further information is available at https://classics.fsu.edu/spring-2023-langford-conference. The program was:
D. Pullen, “Elites and non-elites in Mycenaean economies”
D. Nakassis, “Reading between the lines: textual evidence for socioeconomic organization in the Mycenaean world”
J. Driessen, “A House Divided? Social structure before, during and after the Mycenaean administration at Knossos”
S. Voutsaki, “Kinship and the roots of inequality in pre-palatial Laconia”
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”
T. F. Tartaron, “Social Groups in the Mycenaean Maritime Economy”
N. Abell, “Crafting communities and constellations of practice: An exploration of production and exchange networks in the earlier LBA southern Aegean”
K. Shelton, “Petsas House: potters, the workshop, and ceramic production in Mycenae’s society and economy”
A. Dill, “Craft Industries at Kalamianos”
P. M. Day and E. Kardamaki, “Potting Communities during the Mycenaean Palatial Period”

3rd Radiocarbon and Diet Conference

On 22 February 2023 abstracts (250 words maximum) are due for the 3rd Radiocarbon and Diet Conference, to be held at the University of Oxford on 20-23 June 2023. Further information is available at https://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/radiocarbon-and-diet-2023. The sessions will be:
• Reservoir effects: current challenges
• Diet reconstruction: from modelling to diet, chronology and mobility
• Compound specific approaches
• Diachronic change in subsistence practices and high resolution approaches
• Chronology of domestication
• Chronology of dietary practices
• Radiocarbon and diet in ecology and forensics

Harbours, maritime networks, and infrastructures

A Classical Archaeology Seminar has been announced entitled Harbours, maritime networks, and infrastructures in ancient Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period, to be held on Mondays at 5 pm at the Ioannou Centre, Oxford and accessible online (https://zoom.us/u/aelYxMUuQ1; Meeting ID: 958 9922 7597 Passcode: 306649). Further information is available at https://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/files/classicalarchseminarsht23pdf. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
16 January 2023: L. Hulin, “A meeting of requirements: a mariner view of ports and trade in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean”
23 January 2023: S. Sherratt, “Pottery as tracers of maritime networks”
30 January 2023: S. Fournier, “The ancient harbour of Kition-Bamboula, Cyprus”
13 February 2023: D. Greger, “Euboean Trade in the Bigger Picture: Early Iron Age Pottery Exchange through Network Analysis”
27 February 2023: C. Sofianou and T. Brogan, “Maritime CoastScapes and Small Worlds in East Crete from the Middle Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period”

 

ASCS44

On 31 January - 3 February 2023 the 44th Conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS44) will be held at the in Christchurch, New Zealand. Further information is available at https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/events/active/uc-events/the-44th-conference-of-the-australasian-society-for-classical-studies.html. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
V. Kerr-Harris, “Dread-Nots: Hairstyle, Revisionism, and (Mis)Appropriation in Aegean Art”

 

SOMA 2023

On 2-4 February 2023 the 24th annual Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA 2023): Ideas that travelled by the sea will be held in Udine, Italy. Further information is available at http://genama.info/soma/2023/Registration.html?fbclid=IwAR0UMR-GiTCXZD0xiO-UzDZja2ywT7CMdUYF8wuh_eQgRa276Eumzn6s7LM. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
M. Girtzi, N. Papadopoulou, and A. Bountidou, “‘The ‘Time-traveller’ visits Minoan Crete’: an innovative museological project”

 

The Golden Bough at 100

On 10-12 February 2023 a conference entitled Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough: The Golden Bough at 100 will be held via Zoom, hosted by the University of Melbourne, Australia. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/JamesGFrazer/. Abstracts should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
C. Morris, “Rejecting the embrace of the Goddess? Minoan archaeology and the divine feminine”
B. Jones, “The Girl on the Mycenean Ivory Triad: Her Garment, Hairstyle and Identity”
L. Mazow, “Narrative Myth in Bronze-Age Aegean Wall Paintings and the Function of the Rooms They Decorate”
C. Eller, “How the Minoans Became Matriarchal”
S. O’Brien, “Guess Who’s Back? Graeber and Wengrow’s Resurrection of Matristic Minoans in ‘The Dawn of Everything’”
L. Tittl, “Frazer’s Minoan Religion, by way of Mary Renault”

 

MAARC 2023

On 13-15 February 2023 the third annual meeting of the Mediterranean Archaeology Australasian Research Community (MAARC 2023) will be hosted online by the University of Sydney. Further information is available at https://mediterraneanarcha.wixsite.com/maarc/annual-meeting. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
L. Pisanu, “Mors tua vita mea. Perspective on the Late Bronze Age from the Sardinian shores”
M. Bowers, “Continuity and Change in the Aftermath of the LBA Collapse through the Aegean Textile Culture”
S. Lupak, “Did Everything Change in the Mediterranean Collapse? Signs of Religious Continuity from the Bronze Age through the Early Iron Age”
R. Merrillees, “Ethel Hunter and Kouklia: A Forgotten Episode of Australian Archaeological Activity in Cyprus”
L. Hitchcock, A. Maeir, and L. Pisanu, “Roll up for the Mystery Tour: Islands of the Transition and their Contribution to ‘Western’ Civilization”
E. H. Cline, “Resilience, Transformation, and Catastrophe: Looking at the Aftermath of the LBA Collapse through the Lens of the Adaptive Cycle, Resilience Theory, and Extreme Events”
V. Kerr-Harris, “A Dark Embrace: Darkness, Ritual Space, and the Senses”
Z. Tarhan, “Near Eastern Motifs on Cretan Metalwork: New Observations”
J. Webb, “Identifying violence within a Middle Bronze Age community in Cyprus”
J. K. Papadopoulos, “The Ancient Methone Archaeological Project”
E. Tour, “‘Pots don’t breed’: An exploration of the applications of phylogenetics in archaeology, and the debate around its suitability”
B. Casa, V. Vassallo, R. Orabi, S. Hermon, and P. M. Fischer, “Hand-held tools for rapid, detailed 3D documentation of archaeological sites and public outreach: A case study from Late Bronze Age Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus”
L. Tapinos, “Minoan Frescoes and Heterotopia: Creating Ritual Spaces and Visual Language at Mari, Alalakh, Tel Kabri”

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