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AIA 2025

On 2-5 January 2025 the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA 2025) will be held in Philadelphia, PA. Further information is available at http://www.archaeological.org. Based on the preliminary program, papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
S. Lupack, P. Kasimi, B. Weissova, S. Ross, A. Sobotkova, and M. Skuse, “Perachora Peninsula Archaeological Project 2024: The Sanctuary of Hera and the Inhabited Landscape of the Perachora Peninsula”
J. S. Meier, V. Pliatsika, and K. Shelton, “Fossil and Bone: Human-Animal Interactions in Household Environments of Mycenae”
Ž. Tankosić, P. Zafeiriadis, F. Mavridis, D. Nenova, and H. Ç. Öztürk, “Architecture and Landscape Management in Prehistoric Gourimadi: Results of the 2024 Season”
J. C. Wright, “The Heritage Master Plan for the Ancient Harbor at Kommos, Crete”
L. Mazow, “Monkeys, Musicians, and Weavers: Multivalency in the Monkey Frieze from Xeste 3”
B. Buxton, F. X. Alves Pereira, L. Carcieri, P. Holland, and D. Carpenter, “The Phaistos Disk Revisited”
K. Dempsey and M. G. Clinton, “The House of the Rhyta at Pseira: A Statistical Analysis of Access and Circulation”
T. J. Kellenbarger, “Smite Him Down: Constructing Images of Power in the Late Bronze Age”
N. Abell, “Mending and Memory at Ayia Irini, Kea, Greece”
R. Worsham, “Homemaking and the Hearth in EH III-LH I Greece”
E. Keyser, “Reconfiguring Sacred Space in the Mycenaean Argolid”
K. Hall, “Violent and Vulnerable Bodies: Negotiations of Mycenaean Warrior Ideology in Mortuary and Iconographic Contexts”
L. Holland Goldthwaite, “Childless Deer Lady? A New Take on Mycenaean Artemis”
A. Van de Moortel and S. Vitale, “A Jug with ‘Sea People’ Ships and a Horned Helmet Emblem from a Final Palatial Context at Mitrou”
A. Galumbeck, “The Cultic Significance of Wheelmade Terracotta Figures in Late Helladic IIIC Eleon, Greece”
A. R. Knodell, D. Athanasoulis, J. Banks, A. Belza, E. R. Campbell, and J. F. Cherry, “The Small Cycladic Islands Project 2024: The Islets of the Southern Cyclades”
K. Mallinson, T. Carter, S. Crewson, M. Eaby, D. Faulmann, M. Harder, and K. Harper, “Situating the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Complex of Stelida within its Larger Socio-Religious Landscape via Drone, LiDAR and GIS Analyses”
E. Gorogianni and R. D. Fitzsimons, “Revisiting the Northeast Bastion: Architecture, Ceramics, and Socio-Economic Dynamics in Late Bronze Age Ayia Irini”
A. Belza and N. Abell, “A New Look at LC II Pottery and Phasing at Ayia Irini, Kea”
T. Carter, “Intra-Community Dynamics in Later Minoan Crete: Obsidian Consumption at Neopalatial Mochlos”
L. Watrous, “A New Vision of an Old Town: Recent Excavations at Minoan Gournia on Crete”
R. A. K. Smith, “The Neopalatial and Postpalatial Pottery Sequence of Gournia: New Evidence for Long Term Continuities and Change”
L. Ursprung Nerling, “It Never gets Old, the Longevity of the Pacheia Ammos Cemetery”
B. R. Jones, “Religion and Ritual at Pseira”
J. Craig, “Unfair Ground: Assessing Publishing Trend in Ground Stone Tools Studies of the Prehistoric Aegean”
T. Petit, “The First Iron Age Palace in Cyprus and the Rise of the Cypriot City-Kingdoms. A Ninth Century Building on the Acropolis of Amathous”
S. Nanoglou and Y. Papadias, “Inhabiting a Changing Landscape: Central Macedonia in the Late Second and the Early First Millennium BCE”
K. Roungou, “The Aeolian Sanctuary at Klopedi on Lesbos from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Eighth Century BCE and the Historical Background of the Island during this Period”
P. Zervaki, “Bridging the Gap: Rhodes in the 11th and 10th centuries BCE. The Cemeteries at Aghia Agathe and Lindos”
N. Petrocheilos, E. Kountouri, and A. Psalti, “From Parnassus to Giona: The Appearance and the Growth of Three Ethne”
C. Sofianou and T. Brogan, “Eastern Crete after the Theran Volcanic Eruption and before the Creation of the City-States. Recent Excavations, Surface Surveys, and the Mycenaean Tombs at Kentri and Palaikastro”
A. Vasilogambrou, “New Data on Mycenaean Palatial Greece: The Palace at Ayios Vasileios near Sparta”
V. Lambrinoudakis, A. Sfiroera, and E. Kazolias, “The Sanctuary of Apollo and Asclepius at Epidaurus. Recent Excavations Shed New Light on the Early History of the Site”
M. Mitrovich, “Minoan Genius: De-mystifying the Function of the Mysterious Hybrid in the Bronze Age Aegean and Beyond”
S. Cushman, “On the Origin of the Chamber Tomb”
S. L. Hilker, “Reassessing Late Helladic Zygouries though Legacy Data”
T. Stark, “Mr. Smith Goes to Pylos: Investigating the organization of metal production in Late Bronze Age Messenia”
I. A. Tewksbury, “What was Slavery at Pylos? A Marxist Reading of the Material Evidence”
N. Hirschfeld, N. G. Blackwell, M. Jansen, E. Kuruçayırlı, and J. W. Lehner, “The ‘Slab Ingots’ from the Cape Gelidonya Shipwreck”
A. Duray, “The Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age Transition in Greece: Archaeological Practice, Empiricism, and Hellenism”
A. Ratzlaff, J. Ur, R. Palermo, C. Lopez-Ruiz, L. A. Hitchcock, I. W. N. Jones, S. P. Harvey, and E. H. Cline: Beyond the Bronze Age: Resilience, Transformation, or Darkness. A Panel Discussion on “After 1177 BC” (Workshop)

 

Anatolian Chalcolithic Workshop

On 10 January 2025 the first meeting of the Anatolian Chalcolithic Workshop will be held online. Further information is available at https://www.nit-istanbul.org/projects/anatolian-chalcolithic-workshop. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
K. S. Girginer, Ö. Oyman-Girginer, and M. Koçak, “New Finds from the Chalcolithic Period and the Transition to the Early Bronze Age at Tatarlı Höyük”
O. H. Kaycı, “Chalcolithic Settlements in Cilicia: Insights from the Central Taurus and Çukurova”
G. Palumbi, “The Early Chalcolithic at Mersin-Yumuktepe”
I. Caneva, “The Late Chalcolithic Sequence at Mersin-Yumuktepe”
B. Ulaş “The non-urban hierarchical agricultural economy at Yumuktepe in the Vth millennium BC”

Τούμπα Θεσσαλονίκης

On 20-21 December 2024 a conference entitled 40 Χρόνια της Πανεπιστημιακή Ανασκαφή Τούμπας Θεσσαλονίκης 1984-2024 was held in Thessaloniki. Further information is available at https://www.hist.auth.gr/administration_annou/syblirosi-40-chronon-anaskafis-toubas/. The program was:
Σ. Ανδρέου, Κ. Κωτσάκης, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Η ανασκαφή του ΑΠΘ στην Τούμπα Θεσσαλονίκης”
Σ. Ανδρέου, Κ. Κωτσάκης, and Κ. Ευκλείδου, “Στρωματογραφία-Χρονολόγηση”
Κ. Ευκλείδου, Γ. Παρχαρίδου, Γ. Βλαχοδήμος, and Σ. Ανδρέου, “Αρχιτεκτονική και χωροργάνωση”
Σ. Τριανταφύλλου and Β. Παπαθανασίου, “Η ταφική χρήση του χώρου στην κορυφή της Τούμπας”
Σ. Κυριλλίδου, “Δραστηριότητες εντός του οικισμού. Μικρομορφολογική ανάλυση”
Δ. Μαργωμένου and Μ. Ρούμπου, “Διεπιστημονική διερεύνηση αποθηκευτικών χώρων και αγγείων”
Κ. Ψαράκη, “Η κεραμική της Μέσης και πρώιμης Ύστερης Εποχής του Χαλκού”
Ε. Bλιώρα, Ε. Κυριατζή, and Κ. Ψαράκη, “Η κεραμική της προχωρημένης και τελικής Ύστερης Εποχής του Χαλκού”
Γ. Παπαδιάς, Β. Κυλίκογλου, and Ε. Κυριατζή, “Η κεραμική της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Σιδήρου”
Τ. Ogawa and Ε. Κυριατζή, “Η μαγειρική κεραμική”
Γ. Στεργίου and Ρ. Πάλλη, “Τούμπα Θεσσαλονίκης: παραγωγή, διαχείριση και κατανάλωση της λιθοτεχνίας λαξευμένου λίθου”
Ε. Τσιολάκη, “Λίθινα τριπτά τεχνουργήματα από την Τούμπα Θεσσαλονίκης: πρακτικές κατασκευής και χρήσης”
Ρ. Χρηστίδου and Κ. Χονδρός, “Μεταβολή της χρήσης οστέινων πρώτων υλών κατά την Εποχή του Χαλκού: συζήτηση των δεδομένων από την Τούμπα Θεσσαλονίκης”
Α. Καραθάνου, Τ. Γκατζόγια, Μ. Ντίνου, Δ. Κοτζαχρήστου, and Σ. Βαλαμώτη, “Η Τούμπα πέρα από την τούμπα: διερευνώντας τις χρήσεις της γης κατά την Εποχή του Χαλκού και Σιδήρου μέσα από τα αρχαιοβοτανικά δεδομένα”
Σ. Χρονάκη, Α. Βασιλειάδου, Δ. Νικολαΐδου, Δ. Ανδρουλάκη, and P. Halstead, “Σαράντα χρόνια Τούμπα: όταν τα ζώα αφήνουν ίχνη”
T. Θεοδωροπούλου and Σ. Γαύρου, “Οι ψαράδες της Τούμπας και οι ψαριές τους: οργάνωση, διαχείριση, κατανάλωση στον χώρο και στον χρόνο”
Ρ. Βεροπουλίδου, “Τούμπα Θεσσαλονίκης: συμπεράσματα από τη μελέτη των οστρέων”
Σ. Χρονάκη, Α. Σαμούρης, Ν. Αθανασιάδης, Ζ. Αμοιρίδου, Σ. Βογιατζή, Δ. Καδή, Α. Καραθάνου, Ά. Λύκα, Κ. Μαστορογιάννης, Γ. Παπαδιάς, Γ. Παρχαρίδου, Κ. Παυλόγλου, Ι. Νεστορίδης, Κ. Χονδρός, Σ. Ανδρέου, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου “Η ανασκαφή σήμερα”
Κ. Χαβέλα, “Ο οικισμός στην τράπεζα και το νεκροταφείο (8ος-3ος αι. π.Χ.)”
Ζ. Μπίλη and Σ. Πρωτοψάλτη, “Νέα αρχαιολογικά δεδομένα από τις σωστικές έρευνες της ΕΦΑΠΟΘ στην Τούμπα Θεσσαλονίκης
Θ. Κατρακάζης, Β. Κοντογιάννη, Ε. Τζιβίλογλου, Ι. Καρατάσιος, and Β. Κυλίκογλου, “Διερεύνηση επιτελεστικότητας υλικών στερέωσης ωμόπλινθων από τον αρχαιολογικό χώρο Τούμπας Θεσσαλονίκης”
Ε. Τσιγαρίδα and Σ. Πρωτοψάλτη, “Η σημασία του αρχαιολογικού χώρου της Τούμπας Θεσσαλονίκης Πρόταση ανάδειξης”
Δ. Καϊμάρης, Π. Πατιάς, Σ. Ανδρέου, and Μ. Παππά, “Smart Eye”
Κ. Κασβίκης, “Εκπαιδεύοντας παιδιά στην ‘Τουμπίτσα’: χρονικό και αποτίμηση των εκπαιδευτικών δράσεων στην προϊστορική Τούμπα Θεσσαλονίκης

Michael Ventris Award

On 1 February 2025 applications are due for the Michael Ventris Award for Mycenaean Studies for 2025 (up to £3000), 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 Director (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-2025.

 

Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars and Cincinnati Summer Residency Programs

On 15 March 2025 applications are due for both the Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars Program and the Cincinnati Summer Residency Program for 2025-2026. Applicants for the Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars Program will ordinarily be senior scholars who are a minimum of five years beyond receipt of the PhD, with notable publication histories, who are expected to be in residence at the University of Cincinnati for a minimum of one semester (ca. four months) and a maximum of two during the regular academic year. Tytus Scholars receive a monthly stipend of $1,500 plus housing near campus and a transportation allowance, as well as office space attached to the Burnam Classics Library.
Applicants for the Cincinnati Summer Residency program may be more recent PhDs and other scholars who would benefit from the use of a world-class Classics library with their Ph.D. in hand by the time of application; they will ordinarily be in residence at the University of Cincinnati for approximately two months in the summer terms, May to mid-August. Cincinnati Summer Residents receive housing near campus and office space attached to the Burnam Classics Library. Further information and application forms are available at https://classics.uc.edu/departments/classics/tytus.

Island Legacies

On 15 December 2024 abstracts (300 words, excluding references) are due for a conference entitled Island Legacies: Prehistoric Insular Ecosystems, Societies, and Climate Change in the Mediterranean, to be held on 3-6 June 2025 at the University of Malta. Further information is available at https://www.um.edu.mt/events/islandlegaciesconf2025/. The themes of the conference will be:
• Pleistocene ecosystems and the first societies
• Holocene hunter-gatherers and the Mesolithic to Neolithic transition
• Neolithic and Bronze Age societies and environments

 

Sympozjum Egejskie 10

On 15 February 2025 titles and abstracts (in English, maximum 250 words) are due for the Sympozjum Egejskie. 10th Conference in Aegean Archaeology, to be held on 9-13 June 2025 in hybrid mode at the University of Warsaw, Poland. This tenth anniversary conference will also include a special session on scripts and seals, to be chaired by Sarah Finlayson, and a special workshop on ‘Spaces and Landscapes of Production’, to be chaired by Sylviane Déderix and Stephanie Aulsebrook, for which a separate call for papers will be issued. Proposals are especially welcomed from early career researchers. Questions should be directed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., to which application materials should also be sent. Further information is available at https://www.archeologia.uw.edu.pl/en/sympozjum-egejskie-10th-conference-in-aegean-archaeology/, https://fb.me/e/h1X0yaFqR, or https://www.archeologia.uw.edu.pl/en/department-of-aegean-and-textile-archaeology/.

 

IKUWA 8

On 15 March 2025 abstracts (250-300 words, plus 5 to 7 keywords) are due for the 8th International Congress for Underwater Archaeology (IKUWA 8), to be held on 13-17 October 2025 in Oostende, Belgium. Further information is available at https://www.vliz.be/ikuwa8/en.

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