The September 2023 issue of Nestor (50.9) is available as a free download.
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Symbolism, Pre-Writing, and Writing
On 4 September proposals (300 words maximum) with author biographies (100 words maximum) are due for a volume entitled Symbolism, Pre-Writing and Writing in Neolithic Anatolia, Fertile Crescent and Europe: An Introduction to Pre Historic Symbolism, to be published by Peter Lang in the series “South-East European History” Further information is available at https://www.balkan-history.com/neolithic-symbolism/.
AEA 2023
On 15 September 2023 (extended deadline) abstracts are due for the 43rd Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology: Telling Environmental Archaeology Stories (AEA 2023), to be held on 24-26 November 2023 in Tarragona, Spain. Further information is available at https://icac.cat/en/dissemination/icac-activities/43rd-aea-conference/. Papers in standard format (15 minutes), storytelling format (6 minutes) or poster format (A1 size) are invited on:
• Social relations and the role of different social groups in shaping society and economy
• The role of immigration/movement in changing society, how this took place, and its repercussions
• Past cosmologies and belief systems
• How people or groups of people perceived and acted on issues of health and medicine
• How people or groups of people engaged with their environment: reconstructing rural or urban histories of interactions
• People and societies as the main actors impacting landscapes, geographies, and environments
• Local versus global narratives
• Key events of the past (agricultural and farming developments, emergence of new forms of socio-economic organisation, and what these meant or how they changed life, etc.)
• Communicating environmental archaeology stories:
o Environmental archaeology contributions to policy making and impact
o Successful stories of communicating and disseminating environmental archaeology research to researchers of other fields and the public
o Environmental archaeology and the press
o Environmental archaeology and impact on education
o Inclusive environmental archaeology
BANEA 2024
On 6 October 2023 session abstracts (250 words) are due for the annual conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA 2024). Archaeological and heritage practice in Southwest Asia: towards equitable futures, to be held on 3-5 January 2024 in Glasgow. Further information is available at https://www.banea.org/banea24. The sessions and workshops are:
• Archaeological fairness
• Landscape
• Digital archaeologies
• Field reports
• Foodways
• Social worlds
• Achaemenid Environments: Agenda-setting economic, landscape, environmental and bioarchaeological approaches to Achaemenid Impact
• The Archaeology and Cultural Heritage of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region
• Big Dig Energy: Gendered practices and internalised patriarchy in archaeological fieldwork in West Asia
• Dialogues Across Landscapes: New Challenges to Practicing Landscape Archaeology in Western Asia
• When is Urban, Really? Looking Back, Moving Forward – Exploring temporalities of Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia in the present: A workshop celebrating historic innovations in early urban archaeology, and tackling current challenges to the field
• Whose Heritage Is it? A Discussion on Community Engagement and Local Counter-narratives in Archaeology of Southwest Asia
LAC 2024
On 31 October 2023 session abstracts are due for the 8th Landscape Archaeology Conference: Human Challenges in a Context of Changing Landscapes (LAC 2024), to be held on 10-14 June 2024 at Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. From 1 December 2023 through 29 February 2024 submission of abstracts for papers and posters will be open. Further information is available at https://lac2024.com/. The themes of the conference are:
• Mobility, settlement and people: an environmental approach
• Places, people and identity: a conceptual challenge for Landscape Studies
• Space vs site: human dynamics in landscape
• Cutting-edge technologies and theories: a new perspective from Landscape Archaeology
• Knowledge transfer and local communities in Landscape Studies
• Landscape heritage values
• Climate change and ancient natural and human-shaped landscapes: interdisciplinary approaches
• Landscape Archaeology: visual and virtual perceptions
• Landscape Archaeology and Landscape Ecology
UISPP 2023
On 5-9 September 2023 the UISPP XX World Congress: Interdisciplinarity in Archaeology will be held in Timişoara, Romania. Further information is available at https://uispp2023.uvt.ro/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. García Suárez, “Continuity and change in Neolithic earthen architecture an Anatolian case study”
O. Palli, E. Pavlidou, L. Malletzidou, T. T. Zorba, I. Nazlis, G. Kourtessi-Philippakis, S. Andreou, and S. Triantafyllou, “Multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of residues on quartz tools from the Bronze Age Thessaloniki Toumba, Greece”
A. Vintaloro, “L’arrivée de l’artisanat en Sicile depuis la mer Égée génère des sociétés guerrières”
M. Truffi and F. Nomi, “Federico Halbherr, a pioneer of Mediterranean archaeology”
G. Iliadis, D. Cardoso, and S. Dadaki, “Representations of footprints in north Aegean rock art. The site of ‘Tsigkri’ in the island of Thassos”
T. Scarano, C. Cavazzuti, G. E. De Benedetto, R. Jung, L. Mazzotta, G. Patrizi, J. H. Sterba, and A. Arena, “Organic Residue and Trace Element Analyses from Aegean-type ceramics from Roca Vecchia (Le, IT)”
G. Herzlinger and N. Galanidou, “The Acheulean Large Cutting Tool assemblage from Rodafnidia, and other Lower Palaeolithic localities on Lesbos, Greece: A 3D morpho-technological cross-regional comparative analysis”
YRA 2023
On 4-6 October 2023 the 6th workshop for Young Researchers in Archaeometry 2023 (YRA 2023) will be held at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in hybrid format. Further information is available at https://yrarch.github.io/current.html. Posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. Tsafou, “Minoan cooking vessels: An interdisciplinary approach on their function and use”
The August 2023 summer communications from Nestor (50.8) are available as a free download.
INSTAP Publication Team Grants
Publication Team Grant applications are available from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP). There is no specific deadline for this class of application; please apply at least 2 months or more prior to the start date. Excavation directors may apply for technical archaeological services for preparation of their publications. Projects that are finished with excavation and are preparing material for publication are eligible. Further information and applications are available at http://www.aegeanprehistory.net/downloads/2022-Application-INSTAP-Publication-Team-Grant%2012-20-22.pdf.
Tytus Scholars and Cincinnati Summer Residency Programs
On 15 March 2024 applications are due for both the Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars Program and the Cincinnati Summer Residency Program for 2024-2025. Applicants for the Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars Program will ordinarily be 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 one semester (ca. four months). 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 are scholars who would benefit from the use of a world-class classics library with their Ph.D. in hand by the time of application, and 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.