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”