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POCA 2023

On 1-3 December 2023 the Postgraduates in Cypriot Archaeology (POCA 2023) conference will be held at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens/ Athens University History Museum in hybrid mode. Further information is available at https://conferences.uoa.gr/event/66/page/459-program-of-the-conference. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
L. Bombardieri, “Inside Out. Spaces and notions of social inclusion and exclusion in Bronze Age Cyprus.”
T. Christoforou, “The diachronic synthesis of the landscape in the northeastern foothills of Troodos mountains the Agia Varvara, Lythrodontas Mathiatis Sia areas from Prehistory until Late Antiquity”
A. Gonzalez San Martin, “Labourscapes of Bronze Age Cyprus”
G. Albertazzi and A. Villani, “What if it is over? How water availability coevolved with the life and abandonment of Middle Bronze Age Erimi Laonin tou Porakou”
P. Koullouros, M. Madella, and E. Margaritis, “Exploring Human Woodland Interactions in 1st millennium Cyprus Insights from Wood Charcoal Analysis in PASYDY and Tserkezoi Gardens”
Chara Theotokatou, “Down to Hearth Spotlighting intra and inter house social relations in Late Cypriot contexts”
K. Tsirtsi, G. Kasapidou, and E. Margaritis, “What do Chalcolithic plant remains have to say?”
M. Schutti, “Ritual or Souvlaki? Human pig relations in the Chalcolithic”
R. Laoutari and G. Muti, “Never travel solo Donkeys in Prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus and their role in the island’s inter and intra-regional networks”
F. Fontani, “Deciphering archaeogenetics in Cyprus state of the art and perspectives”
K. C. Koukzelas, “Cooking and consumption in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus preliminary results from the organic residue analysis of cooking pots from Erimi - Laonin tou Porakou”
M. Hadjigavriel and M. Dikomitou-Eliadou, “Sherds that Talk: A Compositional and Technological Study of Late Chalcolithic Pottery from Cyprus”
S. Menelaou, L. Bombardieri, M. Amadio, and G. Muti, “Examining the ceramic landscape of Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou an analytical approach to pottery production and circulation”
C. A. Mohan Minos, “It’s all Plain to me? Characterising Fabrics of Late Cypriot I-IIB Plain White Pottery from Enkomi”
C. Carigiet, “Identifying regional styles in flask production in the Early and Middle Cypriot Bronze Age”
P. Tripodi, “‘Unveiling the unseen’ Broadening perspectives on Middle Cypriot daggers through use wear analysis”
D. Snook, “Finger-rings of Enkomi an exploration of sensory and cognitive engagement of personal adornments in the Late Cypriot Period”
E. Loizou, “Loomweights as votive offerings? A view from the sacred precinct of Kition”
C. Cateloy, “Cross-Regional connections Levantine amphorae and their circulation in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Middle and Late Bronze Age”

 

AIA 2024

On 4-7 January 2024 the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA 2024) will be held in Chicago, with both in-person and virtual components but not fully hybrid. Further information is available at http://www.archaeological.org. Based on the preliminary program, papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
D. Nakassis, “One Script, One Kingdom? Exploring and Explaining the Heterogeneity of Linear B”
D. Panagiotopoulos, “Koine in a Nutshell. What Seals (and Theory) Can Tell Us about Cultural Uniformity in the Mycenaean Palatial Period”
S. Vitale, “Understanding the Mycenaean “Koine”: Norms and Variations in Aegean Cooking and Tableware Pottery Assemblages from the Late 15th to the early 12th Century B.C.E.”
N. Blackwell, “Evaluating Homogeneity in Mycenaean Palatial Construction: A Stoneworking Perspective”
E. Egan, “Counterpoints to Koine in Mycenaean Painting”
J. Murphy, “Doing it My Way: Ritual and Death at Pylos and Mycenae in the Late Bronze Age”
A. R. Knodell, D. Athanasoulis, J. Banks, A. Belza, R. Campbell, and J. F. Cherry, “The Small Cycladic Islands Project 2023: The Islets of Andros, Tenos, Mykonos, and Amorgos”
D. J. Fallu, G. Tsartsidou, L. Vokotopoulos, A. Lang, and C. Bahl, “The Geoarchaeology of Minoan Agricultural Engineering at Choiromandres, Crete”
D. M. Buell, K. T. Glowacki, and N. L. Klein, “New Observations on the Architecture of the Gournia Shrine”
A. Hunter, “Coloring the Image: The use of Egyptian Blue in Bronze Age Mediterranean Fresco Imagery”
E. Shank, “The LM IA Decorated Lustral Basin at Chania: Ritual and Use”
E. J. Fuller, “A Liminal Approach to Cultural Interaction and Maritime Exchange at Two Late Bronze Age Aegean Harbors”
N. Bowman, “Maritime Connectivity and Mobility in the Southeastern Aegean during the Neopalatial Period: A GIS-based Approach”
S. A. James and E. Marzec, “Results of the Western Argolid Petrography Project”
K. Mallinson, T. Carter, S. Crewson, M. Harder, C. Lopez, V. Mastrogiannopoulou, D. Mylona, M. N. Pareja, G. Tsartsidou, and D. Athanasoulis, “Spring Cleaning at Stelida? Disentangling Depositional Practices at the Minoan-Type Peak Sanctuary
R. McKay, “Nestor’s Two Forests: Sustainable practices and resource procurement in the Pylian Kingdom”
B. R. Jones, “The Girl on the Mycenaean Ivory Triad: Identifying Her Garment, Hairstyle, and Identity”
E. Keyser, “New Perspectives on Rhyta from the Mycenaean Mainland”
D. M. Wheeler, “The Mourner is Present: Performance Art and the Mycenaean Funeral”
G. Erny and M. McHugh, “Implementing Survey in a Suburban Coastal Context: Reflections from the BEARS Project”
A. Psoma, “Chipped Stone Tools from the Bays of East Attica Regional Survey (BEARS)”
B. Lis, “LH IIIC Pottery in the Bay of Porto Rafti: Insights into Production, Consumption, and Exchange”
A. Koh, C. Floyd, I. Roy, T. Luke, S. Bishop, M. Gold, and M. MacFarline, “The Southern Phokis Regional Project: Results of the 2023 Field Season”
T. Van Damme, B. Burke, B. Burns, A. Charami, and N. Herrmann, “New Excavations at Ancient Eleon in Eastern Boeotia”
B. Watts-Wooldridge, “The Trade of Pictorial Pottery in the 12th century BCE: New Data from Ancient Eleon, Boeotia”
A. M. Gaggioli, “Geoarchaeology and Soil Micromorphology Insights into Late Bronze Age Constructions at Eleon, Greece”
A. Van de Moortel and N. P. Herrmann, “Monuments of Earth and Stone: Social Significance of Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Tumuli at Mitrou, Central Greece”
K. B. Harrington and C. Steidl, “Signs Beyond the Cadmea: An Imported Seal Stone from the Ismenion Hill”
A. J. Shapland, A. Jenkins – Le Guerroué, R. Fascialé, and F. McDowall, “The Use of the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Video Game in the Labyrinth: Knossos Myth and Reality Exhibit at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford”
E. Kopanaki, “Regional Mobilities and the Making of Community in East Lokris”
J. Mokrišová, “The Making of Ionia: Land-Based Interregional Interactions”
T. Maltas, “Cultivating the Emerging Greek World: Land Use, Urbanisation and Interaction in the Iron Age Mediterranean”
S. Crewson and K. Mallinson, “Mythical Legacies and Bronze Age Realities: Revisiting Knossian and Naxian Connections”
H. Sugioka, “Movement in Xeste 3, Akrotiri and the Potential for Kinaesthetic Address”
R. B. Koehl, “A Griffin Throne from the Mycenaean Building on the Koukounaries Hill, Paros, Cyclades, Greece”
G. Hedreen, “Terracotta Interspecies Figures from Ayia Triada: Traditional Iconography or Artistic Innovation?”
J. L. Kramer, “Digging Up Troy: A Worker from the University of Cincinnati Expedition to the Troad”
A. Psimogiannou, “‘Breaking-down’ the Aegean Final Neolithic (mid. Fifth- Fourth mill. BCE) with the Use of Absolute, Radiocarbon Dates: Phases, Pottery Sequences and Regional Differentiation”
L. Bernardo-Ciddio, “Without a Trace: Re-Examining Relationships Between Matt-Painted Pottery in Albania and Italy”
J. E. Schultz, “Shumë Shqip Sheep: Preliminary Isotopic Data towards Understanding Prehistoric Herding Practices in Albania”
T. M. S. Nash, “Writing Beyond the Palaces? The Case of the Ivory Houses at Mycenae”
S. Cushman, “Mycenaean Texts and Tombs: A Contradictory Picture?”
J. Evrenopoulos, “Redefining an Archive: A Guide to the Context of the Pylos Linear B Tablets from Rooms 7-8 and its Proper Analysis”
T. Palaima, “Chairs and Stools and their Status Implications in the Pylos Ta ‘Totenmahl’ Inventory”

 

19. Österreichischer Archäologentag (2024)

On 3-5 April 2023 the 19. Österreichischer Archäologentag (2024) will be held in Innsbruck. Further information is available at https://www.uibk.ac.at/archaeologien/index.html.de. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
F. Blakolmer, “Investiturszenen in der Frühägäis: vom ‘Prinzenbecher’ aus Agia Triada zum Kultzentrum von Mykene”
B. Huber, “Emotionen und Emotionalität in Darstellungen von Bestattungsriten in spätmykenischer und geometrischer Zeit”
A. Sokolicek and L. Berger, “A Tale of Two Cities: Bronzezeit und Byzanz in Aegina Kolonna”
J. Weilhartner, “Gold in der mykenischen Palastzeit: Schriftquellen und archäologische Evidenz”

ASOR 2023

On 18-21 October 2023 (online) and 15-18 November 2023 (in person) the American Schools of Overseas Research Annual Meeting (ASOR 2023) was hosted in Chicago, IL. Further information is available at http://www.asor.org. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
A. McCarthy, “The Aceramic Neolithic in the West of Cyprus: Choirokoitian without Choirokoitia?”
M. T. Horowitz, C. Johnston, and E. De Benedictis, “Laroumena/Arkhangelos: A Middle Cypriot Settlement in Kalavasos”
L. Crewe, “The Bronze Age Settlement of Kissonerga-Skalia”
S. W. Manning, G. M. Andreou, C. Atkins, E. Booker, K. D. Fisher, Artemis Georgious, C. M. Kearns, B. Lorentzen, and T. M. Urban, “Monuments, Structure, and Space at Late Bronze Age Maroni, Cyprus”
K. H. Keimer, “Philistine Elements at Khirbet el-Ra’i”
J. C. Katz, “Philistine Group Identity Through the Lens of Successful Group Behavior”
C. Barnes and G. Braun, “Architectural Energetics in Southcentral Cyprus: A Study of Monumental Ashlar Construction at Kalavasos Ayios Dhimitrios”
B. Clark, “Change in Maritime Connectivity in Cyprus and the Southern Levant Throughout the Middle and Late Bronze Ages: The Case of Cypriot Ceramics”
L. Maher, D. Macdonald, A. Simmons, and S. Steward, “Epipaleolithic Wayfarers: Early Explorers of Cyprus”
A. H. Simmons, “Neolithic Islanders: What Have We Learned About Early Settlements of Cyprus?”
B. Davis, “Shall We Remember the Past, or Repeat It?”
L. Steel, “Engendering Creative Expression in Bronze Age Cyprus”
S. Czujko, “Aegean Pottery in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: a New Technological Look at Selected Materials from Beth Shean”
G. C. Braun and C. Barnes, “Considerations for Digital Data Collection, Processing, and Visualization Methods for Architectural Features in Southcentral Cyprus”
S. Klassen, “The Evolution of ‘Late Philistine Decorated Ware’: New Evidence from the Field III Gateway at Tel Gezer”
E. Ridder, P. L. Fall, and S. E. Falconer, “GIS and Photogrammetric Landscape Modeling at Politiko-Troullia, Cyprus”
K. D. Fisher, G. M. Andreou, C. Kearns, and S. W. Manning, “Investigating a Late Bronze Age Urban Landscape: Recent Fieldwork at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, Cyprus”
D. N. Fulton and C. Olson, “Feeding the Living or the Dead? Animal Offerings at Ashkelon, Israel”
S. R. Guterman, S. Albaz, and A. M. Maeir, “Tuning into the Past: The Evidence of Music in Philistine Cult”
J. Engstrom, “‘The Royal Bridge’: Carl Blegen and the Hellenization of Troy in the Interwar Aegean”
C. M. Trent, D. M. Adams, and A. M. Büyükkarakaya, “An Analysis of the Lived Experiences of the Juveniles of Early Bronze Age Karataş-Semayük”
E. S. K. Anderson, “Watchful Stones: The Potent Co-presence of Script and Front-Facing Animals in Cretan MBA Prism Seals”
A. T. Donald, “New Insights from the Cyprus Museum ‘Old Collection’”
D. M. Finn, N. Yahalom-Mack, and Y. Erel, “A Comprehensive Analysis of Late Bronze Age Copper Sources: Reevaluation of Copper Ingots using Lead Isotope Analysis, Chemical Composition, and a Mixing Model”
P. Degryse and S. De Ceuster, “Redefining the Cyprus Orefields: Innovative Provenancing of Ancient Copper Metallurgy”
A. Cercone, “Pottery Production and Trade at Küllüoba, Turkey: A Discussion of Craft Production and Networks in Western Anatolia from a Microscopic Level”
G. Öztürk and F. Kulakoglu, “New Discoveries on Alabaster Idols and Statuettes of the 3rd Millennium BC at Kültepe: A Comparative Analysis to Understand the Typology, Context and Meanings of Ritual Objects”
C. B. Scott and T. Kaner, “Monumental Loaves: The Role of Fire Installations in Structuring Elite Space at 2nd Millennium BCE Kaymakçı, Western Anatolia”
C. J. Greenough, “The Aegean Lion and its Connections to Egypt and the Near East”
L. A. Hitchcock, “In a State of Suspenseful Animation: Let’s Party Like It’s 1199”
L. Tapinos, “Frames of Liminality: A Diachronic Study of the Running Spiral Motif in the Aegean and the Near East”
L. E. Alvarez, “Cypriot Trade and Diplomacy in the Late Bronze Age: a Mirror Perspective”
C. von Rüden, “Southern Sardinia and the Wider Mediterranean Web - A View from the islet of Sant’Antioco”
B. Clark, L. Recht, L. Mazzotta, and K. Zeman-Wisniewska, “Piecing together the Past: The Ceramic Assemblage of the Renewed Excavations at Erimi Pitharka”
L. B. Mazow, “Monkeys, Musicians, and Weavers: Multivalency in the Monkey Frieze from Xeste 3”
L. McDonald and S. W. Manning, “A multi-isotope approach to dendroprovenancing: progress and prospects”

 

ΤΕΦΡΑ

On 30 November – 1 December 2023 a conference entitled ΤΕΦΡΑ: Η τεχνολογία και η βιοανθρωπολογία της χρήσης της φωτιάς στο Προϊστορικό Αιγαίο was held in Thessaloniki. Further information is available at https://tefraproject.web.auth.gr/-/index.php/el/. The program was:
Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Στόχοι του ερευνητικού προγράμματος ΤΕΦΡΑ”
Α. Παπαθανασίου and T. Cullen, “Μεσολιθικές ταφές από το σπήλαιο Φράγχθι”
Χ. Ζιώτα and Α. Χονδρογιάννη, “Η καύση στη Νεολιθική και ΠΕΧ Κίτρινη Λίμνη Κοζάνης”
Ε. Βούλγαρη, Μ. Σωφρονίδου, Τ. Γιαγκούλης, and Κ. Κωτσάκης, “Νεολιθικές καύσεις από το Δισπηλιό Καστοριάς
Χ. Σοφιανού and T. Brogan, “ΥΜ ΙΙΙΓ καύση σε ΥΜ Ι οικία στον Παπαδιόκαμπο Σητείας”
Ε. Παππή, “Η καύση στο ΥΕ ΙΙΙΓ Άργος”
Ν. Παπακωνσταντίνου, Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, Β. Παπαθανασίου, Σ. Κιορπέ, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Η βάση δεδομένων του ερευνητικού προγράμματος και η μεθοδολογία της μακροσκοπικής μελέτης”
Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, “Πρώιμες καύσεις από το σπήλαιο Φράγχθι, τη Θεσσαλία και τη Μακεδονία”
Σ. Τριανταφύλλου and Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, “Η πρακτική της καύσης στην ΠΕΧ στο Αιγαίο”
Ν. Παπακωνσταντίνου, “Οι καύσεις από το ΥΕ ΙΙΙΓ Άργος”
Σ. Κιορπέ, “Η πρακτική της καύσης στην ΥΜ ΙΙΙΓ στην ανατoλική Κρήτη”
Α. Λιούτας and Γ. Παπαδιάς, “Η τοπογραφία της Πολίχνης και τα τεφροδόχα αγγεία της Εποχής του Σιδήρου”
Β. Μισαηλίδου-Δεσποτίδου, “Οι καύσεις στη Νέα Φιλαδέλφεια Θεσσαλονίκης”
Θ. Σαββοπούλου, “Οι καύσεις στο Γυναικόκαστρο Κιλκίς”
Β. Παπαθανασίου, “Οι καύσεις στην Πολίχνη Θεσσαλονίκης”
Β. Παπαθανασίου, “Οι καύσεις στη Νέα Φιλαδέλφεια Θεσσαλονίκης”
Σ. Κιορπέ, “Οι καύσεις στο Γυναικόκαστρο Κιλκίς”
Ν. Παπακωνσταντίνου, “Βιβλιογραφική επισκόπηση της πρακτικής της καύσης και η βάση δεδομένων του ερευνητικού προγράμματος”
Α. Αλεξανδρίδου, “Η καύση στην Αττική των Πρώιμων Ιστορικών χρόνων”
Α. Κοτσώνας, “H καύση στην Κρήτη της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Σιδήρου”
Β. Βλάχου, “Η καύση στο Αιγαίο των Πρώιμων Ιστορικών χρόνων”
Σ. Τριανταφύλλου and Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, “Πειραματικές προσεγγίσεις στην πρακτική της καύσης”
Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, Α. Παπαδάκης, Ν. Κουγκούλης, Σ. Χρονάκη, Β. Παπαθανασίου, Ν. Παπακωνσταντίνου, Σ. Κιορπέ, Ε. Κυριατζή, C. Snoeck, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Η διαδικασία των πειραματικών πυρών”
K. Fülop, “Pyre technology in the light of ceramic pyre goods. Results from three open-air cremation experiments”
C. Henkel and Ε. Μαργαρίτη, “Sifting through the ashes: analysing plant remains from an experimental mortuary pyre”
Α. Κρήτη and Α. Λιβάρδα, “Πειραματικές προσεγγίσεις στην αρχαιοβοτανική”
Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, Α. Παπαδάκης, Ν. Κουγκούλης, Σ. Χρονάκη, Β. Παπαθανασίου, Ε. Κυριατζή, C. Snoeck, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Ανασκαφή πειραματικών πυρών”
Ε. Ασημάκου, “Γεωμετρικές καύσεις από το Αιγάλεω Αττικής”
Γ. Δημάκη, “Γεωμετρικές καύσεις από τον Άλιμο Αττικής”
Χ. Σοφιανού, “Οι καύσεις από τη νεκρόπολη Ιτάνου στην ανατολική Κρήτη”
Δ. Μποσνάκης and Ε. Σκέρλου, “Καύσεις νεκρών στην γεωμετρική Κω”
Ν. Παπακωνσταντίνου, “Γεωμετρικές καύσεις από το Αιγάλεω και τον Άλιμο Αττικής”
Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, “Οι καύσεις από το νεκροταφείο της γεωμετρικής Έλτυνας, νομού Ηρακλείου”
Σ. Κιορπέ, “Οι καύσεις από τη νεκρόπολη Ιτάνου στη ανατολική Κρήτη”
Ν. Παπακωνσταντίνου, “Γεωμετρικές καύσεις από τα Σεράγια Κω”
Ν. Παπακωνσταντίνου, Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, Β. Παπαθανασίου, Σ. Κιορπέ, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Η τεχνολογία και η βιοαρχαιολογία των καύσεων στο προϊστορικό Αιγαίο: Σύνοψη”
Ν. Βαλασιάδης, Γ. Χατζηκωνσταντίνου, and Σ. Τριανταφύλλου, “Ιστοσελίδα, μέσα κοινωνικής δικτύωσης και εθελοντική εργασία στο ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα ΤΕΦΡΑ”
Κ. Κασβίκης and Α. Προκόβα, “Εκπαιδευτικό υλικό για μαθητές της πρωτοβάθμιας και δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης για την πρακτική της καύσης στην αρχαιότητα”

 

Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης 60 χρόνια

On 30 November – 2 December 2023 the conference Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης 60 χρόνια was held in Thessaloniki. Further information is available at https://www.amth.gr/news/epistimoniko-symposio-arhaiologiko-moyseio-thessalonikis-60-hronia. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
Β. Μισαηλίδου-Δεσποτίδου, “Το χάλκινο κόσμημα ως σύμβολο κοινωνικής ταυτότητας. Στοιχεία από τους τάφους της ‘τοπικής ελίτ’ στο νεκροταφείο της εποχής σιδήρου της Νέας Φιλαδέλφειας”
Κ. Χαβέλα, “Τα ευρήματα από το αρχαίο νεκροταφείο Τούμπας Θεσσαλονίκης στο Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης. Από τον Πελεκίδη στον 21ο αιώνα”
Ε. Τσαγκαράκη and Ο. Πάλλη, “Το υλικό αποτύπωμα της προϊστορικής Μακεδονίας σε περιοδικές εκθέσεις στο εξωτερικό”
Μ. Παππά, “‘Η Μακεδονία από τa μυκηναϊκά χρόνια ως τον Μέγα Αλέξανδρο’, το οδοιπορικό της έκθεσης της ΙΣΤ΄ΕΠΚΑ στη Μπολόνια το 1988
Μ. Παππά, “‘Προϊστορική Θεσσαλονίκη. Πρώιμες κοινότητες στην ενδοχώρα του Θερμαϊκού’

TALOS Webinar

The TALOS Webinar on the “Santorini Eruption: Comparative anthropological and volcanological research of an archaeological case study” has announced their schedule of upcoming lectures, each at 5 pm (UTC+1). The registration link for each talk is available at https://talos.minoan-aegis.net/webinars.
2 November 2023: F. Mavridis, P. Zafeiriadis, and Ž. Tankosić, “Inverted practices: Tephra and related cult in the BA Cyclades”
16 November 2023: K. Sbonias, “Human responses to the volcanic landscape. The case of the Prehistoric Therasia Project”
30 November 2023: M. Marthari, “Living opposite the Thera volcano: the nature of the Raos volcanic destruction and comparisons to Akrotiri”

 

New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium

The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium has announced the schedule of lectures for 2023-2024, to held at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY 10075 or the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, 15 East 84th Street, New York, NY 10028. Abstracts and Zoom registration links for each talk will be available at https://nyabac.tumblr.com/ a few weeks in advance of each date.
6 November 2023, 12 pm ET: P. Hnila, “Load-bearing Horizontal Timber Framing in Aegean Bronze Age Architecture and Its Anatolian Parallels”
30 November 2023, 12 pm ET: T. Palaima, “70 Years of Wa/ondering: The Pylos Ta series and Mycenaean Ceremonies”
26 February 2023, 12 pm ET: A. Knodell, “New Perspectives on Settlement Patterns in the Bronze Age Cyclades: A View from the Margins”
11 March 2023, 6:30 pm EDT: S. Hogue, “Destruction and Reuse of the Palace of Nestor Main Building”
11 April 2023, 6:30 pm EDT: L Kvapil: “Terraces, Technology, Land, and Labor in Mycenaean Greece”

 

Change and Continuity

On 3-4 November 2023 the Canadian Institute in Greece (CIG) Graduate Student Conference: Change and Continuity will be held in hybrid format by the Canadian Institute in Greece. Further information and the link to the livestream are available at https://cig-icg.gr/event/graduate-student-conference-change-and-continuity/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. Tsafou, “Cooking traditions of Minoan Crete, an interdisciplinary study on ceramic cooking vessels”
S. Murray, “Continuity, Change, and Narrative in Archaeological Thought: Lessons from Postpalatial Porto Rafti”
H. Rückemann, “Between Progress and Tradition: An insight into the Early Iron Age transition in the middle Kephissos-Valley (Phocis)”
S. Cushman, “For Richer and for Poorer: The Meaning of Mortuary Continuity and Change in Late Bronze Age Greece”

 

Perfume Production in the Ancient World

On 6-8 November 2023 an international conference entitled Perfume Production in the Ancient World will be held in Prague. Further information is available at https://www.alchemiesofscent.org/conference-2023. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
M. R. Belgiorno, “‘Eau de B.C.’, perfumed, alcoholic, intoxicating spring of human pleasure. (Mesopotamian and Aegean origins of Mediterranean distillation)”
B. Rueff, “Was the firebox an incense burner? Preliminary Research on Minoan Perfumery”

 

AWLL 2023

On 10-12 November 2023 the 14th Association for Written Language and Literacy international workshop on writing systems and literacy: Writing/reading interface (AWLL 2023) will be held in Rome. Further information is available at http://faculty-sgs.tama.ac.jp/terry/awll/index.html. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Santamaria, “Readability determines the presence of writing: materials, light effects, and sign sequences on Cretan Hieroglyphic seals”

 

AEA 2023

On 24-26 November 2023 the 43rd Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology: Telling Environmental Archaeology Stories (AEA 2023) will be held in Tarragona, Spain. Further information is available at https://aea2023.icac.cat/. Based on the preliminary program, papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. Margaritis, C. Henkel, and K. Tsirtsi, “Cultivating the big islands of the Mediterranean: agriculture, farming and urbanization in Bronze Age Crete and Cyprus”
G. Apostolou, A. Mayoral, K. Venieri, S. Dimaki, A. Garcia-Molsosa, M. Georgiadis, and H. A. Orengo, “Holocene alluvial dynamics and human settlement histories in the Xerolakkos catchment (Grevena, GR)”
M. Andonova-Katsarski, Y. Katreva, K. Boyadziev, E. Marinova-Wolff, and Y. Boyadziev, “The Late Chalcolithic vegetal fibres at Tell Yunatsite, Southern Bulgaria”
A. E. T. Kriti, A. Livarda, H. A. Orengo, E. Ninou, and I. Mylonas, “Modern Experimental Cultivations and Charring Experiments of Barley; Methods, Preliminary Results, Challenges and Possibilities”
K. Tsirtsi, G. Kasapidou, P. Koullouros, and E. Margaritis, “The role of archaeobotanical material in better understanding transitional periods: the case of Chalcolithic Cyprus”
Chr. Papoulia, “Taming the sea. A multi-proxy investigation of Mediterranean Stone Age aquatic technologies”

 

ScapeCon 6

On 2-3 December 2023 the 6th International Conference of ScapeCon: Contextualizing Fire in Aegean Prehistory (ScapeCon 6) will be held by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/ScapeCon/ or from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
S. Kyrillidou, “Session Keynote: Tinders Blazing into the Domestic and Ritual Sphere”
N. Selekos, “Constructing early Mycenaean elite identity: experimentation through fire and blood at Kynortion, Argolid”
P. Bacoup, “Woodworking, architecture and fire in the northern Aegean and southern Balkans in the Neolithic period”
P. Ramirez-Valiente, “This fire is out of control: reevaluating burnt houses in Neolithic Greece, intentional or accidental?”
V. Martin, “Putting one's heart(h) into forging: using the fire in Aegean metalworking at the end of the Neolithic”
C. Snoeck, “Session Keynote: Finding People Through Ashes”
D. Rauschenberger, “Cremation in Neolithic Western Macedonia: a cultural anthropological approach to the transformative power of fire in the mortuary realm"
Y. Chatzikonstantinou, S. Triantaphyllou, C. Snoeck, E. Stamataki, and D. Panagiotopoulos, “Contextualizing Minoan Koumasa through the multidisciplinary examination of the human remains”
A. Kourkoulakos, “A Journey to the Netherworld: an archaeological and textual survey for the use of fire in Anatolia, the Aegean and the Balkans during the Late Bronze Age”
V. Papathanasiou, S. Triantaphyllou, A. Lioutas, and V. Misailidou-Despotidou, “Exploring cremation pathways in Early Iron Age central Macedonia: preliminary insights from Polichni and Nea Philadelphia cemeteries”
E. Gourgouleti, “The concept of operational solidarity as a step towards understanding the curious case of the EC II human cremation at Dhaskalio”
E. Stamataki, “Did the season count? Investigating how seasonality affects pyrotechnology and cremation conditions using experimental archaeology”
A. Livarda, “Session Keynote: Burning Nature to Produce and Consume”
S. Chronaki, D. Androulaki, P. Halstead, S. Triantaphyllou, and S. Andreou, “Lighting a fire for cooking: culinary practices in the prehistoric settlement of Thessaloniki Toumba”
A. Kriti, “Experimental charring experiments on barley towards the creation of new tools to explore agriculture in the past”
D. Kadi, P. Halstead, S. Triantaphyllou, and M. Pappa, “Thermal processing of animal bones: the case of Kyparissi Vasilika”
S. Maritsa, “The role of fire occurrences in the shaping of FN ecosystems in Crete”
M. Choleva, “Session Keynote: Flames of Clay Transformation”
T. Ogawa, S. Triantaphyllou, S. Andreou, H. Procopiou, N. S. Muller, and E. Kiriatzi, “Cooking ware repertoire in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age of Thessaloniki Toumba. Tradition and Innovation of cooking practices”
J. Stuehler, “The usage of fire in a domestic context: Late Helladic sherd hearths reconsidered”
K. Mastorogiannis, S. Triantaphyllou, and S. Andreou, “Colouring through fire: ceramic technology in LBA central Macedonia”
B. Rueff and T. Ogawa, “Where there is smoke there is fire: an experimental and use-wear approach of domestic Minoan fire structures from Malia”
N. Saridaki, I. Siamidou, F. Adaktylou, and K. Kotsakis, “Keeping the home fires burning in the Final Neolithic of northern Greece”

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