On 31 January 2018 applications for grants (not normally exceeding £2,000) to assist with the publication of archaeological fieldwork in the Mediterranean world, with possible priority to Bronze Age sites, are due to the Mediterranean Archaeological Trust. Further information is available at https://sites.google.com/site/medarchtrust/grants.
On 15 January 2018 abstracts (200 words) are due for the 18th International Conference for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu (ICAEM 2018): “Power and (Op)position”, to be held at the Research Center of Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Cultures, Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu in Tartu, Estonia on 1-3 June 2018. Further information, including currently accepted conference sessions, is available at http://caemc.ut.ee/icaem2018.
On 15 January 2018 abstracts (250 words) are due for sessions at the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG-US) 2018: Matter Matters, to be held at the University of Florida, Gainesville on 11-13 May 2018; on 16 March 2018 abstracts (250 words) are due for papers, whether to a session or as an open paper. Further information, including currently accepted conference sessions, is available at https://tag2018uf.clas.ufl.edu/.
On 31 January 2018 abstracts (in English, maximum 250 words) are due for the Sympozjum Egejskie. 6th Conference in Aegean Archaeology, to be held on 14-15 June 2018 by the Department of Aegean Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw. Proposals are invited from doctoral students, PhD candidates, and scholars who have recently completed doctoral research on the Aegean areas and cultures in the Bronze Age. Proposals should be sent to the Department of Aegean Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology at
On 15 February 2018 abstracts (250 words maximum) are due for the 2018 American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting (ASOR 2018), to be held in Denver, CO from 14-17 November 2018. The 2018 list of approved sessions and further information are available at http://www.asor.org/am/.
On 28 February 2018 abstracts (250 words maximum) are due for the International Council of Museums Committee for Documentation Conference 2018 (ICOM-CIDOC 2018), to be held in Heraklion, Crete on 29 September-4 October 2018. Further information is available at http://www.cidoc2018.com/. Papers and posters are invited related to the conference theme, “The Provenance of Knowledge” in the following topics:
Object information as historical source
Object documentation and archival resources
Field research and object documentation
Oral tradition and witnessing information in connection with objects
Documentation and interdisciplinarity
Object documentation and analytical resources
Provenance of materials and techniques
Documentation for target groups (e.g. special needs)
Methods of knowledge verification and documentation of knowledge revision
Ethics of provenance of information
Provenance of knowledge and preservation of referred sources
The program of the Minoan Seminar has been announced for spring 2018. All lectures will be held at 19:00 at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9, Athens). Further information is available at https://www.aegeussociety.org/.
19 January 2018: B. Montecchi, “Agency and literacy in Minoan inscribed pottery”
2 March 2018: S. Mandalaki, “West of Knossos, east of Malia. New evidence on the relations and contacts between palatial regions”
4 May 2018: E. Banou, “Crossing the Aegean in the middle of the 2nd millennium B.C.: The Minoan Peak Sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno, Kythera (2011-2015)”
On 26-28 February 2018 the 17. Österreichischer Archäologentag (2018) will be held in Salzburg. Further information is available at https://www.uni-salzburg.at/index.php?id=207182. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
F. Blakolmer, “Gab es Löwen und Affen im minoischen Kreta? Ein ikonographisches Problem”
G. Nightingale, “Perlen als Opfergaben in der Inatos‐Höhle, Kreta”
J. Weilhartner, “The missing mother: Zur fehlenden Darstellung stillender Mütter in der minoischen Bilderwelt”
W. Wohlmayr and A. Karathanou, “Neues aus Ägina‐Kolonna”
M. Vetters, “Mykenische Werkstätten”
V. Moser, “Trimorphe (dreigestaltige) Figurinengruppen der mykenischen Palastzeit”
K. Strobel, “Das ‘Lange 12. Jahrhundert’ im Mittelmeerraum”
I. Benda‐Weber, “Überlegungen zur Überkleidung frühgriechischer Frauen”
V. Moser, “Übergang der Phase FH II auf FH III”
J. Schnöll, “Mykenische Figurinen aus Ägina‐Kolonna”
M. Stadler, “Vergleich anthropomorpher Figurinen aus Aghia Irini, Aghios Stephanos, Koukonisi und Phylakopi mit Beispielen aus dem minoischen Kreta”
On 8-10 March 2018 an international workshop entitled Gender Transformations in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies will be held in Kiel, Germany. Further information is available at https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-35944. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
B. Kaczmarek, “Children in the Mycenaean workshop. Linear B writing versus grave goods”
On 1-2 December 2017 an international conference entitled 15 years of ΑΙΓΕΙΡΟΣ: Building a Research Network for Young Scholars in Athens was held at the German Archaeological Institute at Athens. Further information is available at https://www.dainst.org/dai/meldungen. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
P. Baeriswyl, “The Aphrodision Quarter of Argos in the Mycenaean Period”
D. Frank, “Life beyond the Palace. A Mycenaean Settlement in the Vicinity of Tiryns”
A. Duray, “Excavating Archives: Archaeological Knowledge Production, Disciplinary Intersections, and the Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age Transition in Greece”
On 9 December 2017 an open workshop entitled Burial Tumuli in the Balkans was held at the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece. Further information is available at http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/news/eventDetails/burial-tumuli-in-the-balkans. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
A.-Z. Chemsseddoha, “Tumuli in Northern Greece: an old tradition, various realities”
C. Kleitsas, “The burial tumuli of Epirus through time and space: Not so rare after all”
R. Kurti, “Recent research on tumuli from northwest Albania”
E. Agolli, “Regional and intra-regional networks in late prehistoric Illyria: choices of architecture and topography of burial tumuli”
M. Gori, “Tumuli in central Dalmatia: old excavations and new research perspectives”
A. Touchais and N. Papadimitriou, “The prehistoric tumuli of Marathon- Vranas. Reassessing the data of an old excavation: new evidence and new queries”
On 18-19 December 2017 M. Boyd delivered lectures to the Aegean Seminar in Zagreb entitled “The sanctuary at Keros in the Early Bronze Age: from centre of congregation to centre of power” and “Becoming Mycenaean? Developments in Mycenaean burial practices and their role in wider social change.” Further information is available from Helena Tomas at
The database of the ARISTEIA European project entitled The Social Archaeology of Early Iron Age and Early Archaic Greece is now available at http://aristeia.ha.uth.gr/index.php. Registration is required to use the database. The language of the research tools is English.