The November 2017 issue of Nestor (44.8) is available as a free download.
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7th TennesseE UG Classics Research Conference
On 13 November 2017 abstracts (250 words) are due for the Seventh Annual Tennessee Undergraduate Classics Research Conference, to be held on 23-24 February 2018 at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Further information and the forms for submission are available at https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/call-papers-tennessee-undergraduate-classics-conference.
The Pre-Modern World in Comics
On 22 December 2017 abstracts are due for a conference entitled Drawing on the Past: the Pre-Modern World in Comics, to be held on 10-11 September 2018 at the Senate House, Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. Abstracts (300 words for papers or posters; 500 words for workshops) should be submitted to
How and why writers and illustrators engage with these periods and cultures in comics
Literary, historical or archaeological analysis of comics, for example:
Accuracy of representation and poetic licence
Engagement with sources
Cultural fusions
Allegorical uses
Connections to modern nationalistic histories
Use as pedagogical tools in the classroom (including translations of comics into Latin or ancient Greek)
Comics as methods for communicating historical research of the pre-modern world
Nilsson's work in retrospective
On 28 November 2017 A celebration of the work of Martin P. Nilsson will be held by the Swedish Institute at Athens at the Italian Archaeological School in Athens. Further information is available at http://www.sia.gr/topics/2017/10/16/celebration-work-martin-p-nilsson/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
M. Haysom, “Nilsson in the Bronze Age: the place of prehistory in the history of Greek religion”
AIA 2018
On 4-7 January 2018 the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA 2018) will be held in Boston, MA. Further information is available at https://www.archaeological.org/annualmeeting. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
L. A. Hitchcock, A. P. Chapin, E. Banou, E. Pantou, J. Reynolds, and A. Tsatasaris, “The Vapheio-Palaiopyrgi Survey Project: Preliminary Results”
M. F. Lane and E. Kountouri, “MYNEKO 2017: Latest Results of Excavation of the MH–LH sites of Aghios Ioannis and Aghia Marina Pyrghos, and the Kopaic Plain”
R. Worsham and M. Lindblom, “The New Excavations at Malthi”
A. Van de Moortel, “A Middle Helladic III - Late Helladic I Phase 1 Pottery Kiln at Mitrou, Central Greece”
S. R. Stocker and J. L. Davis, “The Palace of Nestor at Pylos, 2017”
T. G. Palaima, “Iklaina-Traganes is Linear B a-pu2 but not Homeric Aipu, or is it??”
K. Stiles, “The Children’s Chamber Tomb: A Case Study of Unusual Juvenile Demography in a Late Bronze Age Cemetery in Central Greece”
O. A. Jones, A Paleodemographic Approach to Burial Exclusion in Mycenaean Achaia”
C. Donnelly, “The Daniel-Kober Correspondence and New (Again) Approaches to Cypro-Minoan”
M. J. Daniels, “The Gods of Kommos: Reconsidering the Deities of the Tripillar Shrine and Their Cross-Cultural Meanings in the Iron Age”
M. Carignano, “Locating the Minoan Kitchen”
S. Fachard, A. R. Knodell and K. Papangeli, “The 2017 Mazi Archaeological Project: Test Excavations and Site Investigations”
P. Christesen, “The Typology and Topography of Spartan Burials from the Protogeometric through Hellenistic Periods”
E. Miller Bonney, “Craft Crossover: A Creative Response to Social Change”
G. Doudalis, “What is Mine is Not Yours: Potters’ Marks as Indicators of Territoriality and Local Production in Protopalatial Mochlos”
G. P. Blasdel and T. F. Tartaron, “Mycenae’s Built-Road Network, Reconsidered”
P. Gheorghiade, “Connecting the Pots: Assessing Late Bronze Age Interaction in the Southern Aegean”
K. A. M. van den Berg, “Rewiring the Mediterranean Web: A Case Study in Italo-Aegean Connectivity during the Bronze Age—Iron Age Transition”
L. F. Nixon, “Using Resource Packages to Reconstruct Landscape Management in Sphakia, SW Crete”
C. Judson and A. Cabaniss, “Πεδίον Λαρισίον: Mapping Settlement Patterns on the Ierapetra Isthmus”
E. Baci, “Settlement Patterns in Albania from the Iron Age Through Greek and Roman Colonization and Integration (1100 B.C.E. - 395 C.E.)”
A. M. Ratigan, “‘Shared Objects of Thought’: Reconstructions of Late Minoan IB Architecture at Mochlos”
S. Czujko, “The Mycenaean Kylix at Mt. Lykaion: An Investigation into the Late Helladic III Vessel’s Appearance at the Ash Altar of Zeus”
B. Jones, “The Bronze Age Terracotta Statues from Ayia Irini, Kea and Their Costumes”
H. Wong, “Scanning for Wear on Ancient Base Ring I Juglets: Methodology and Processing”
G. Tsartsidou, K. Kotsakis, and P. Halstead, “Phytolith evidence for farming activities in the Early Neolithic site of Paliambela Kolindros in Macedonia, North Greece”
P. Vaiglova, A. Bogaard, P. Halstead, A. Gardeisen, and J. Lee-Thorp, “Assessing Diversity in Animal Management Practices in Northern and Southern Greece Using Sequential δ13C, δ18O Measurements of Tooth Enamel Carbonate of Domestic Herbivores”
A. Bogaard, A. Karathanou, V. Isaakidou, E. Kitsch, P. Vaiglova, and S. Valamoti, “From Speculation to Data? Using Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Studies to Test Land Use Models in the Prehistoric Aegean”
G. Price and J. S. Meier, “Renovative Modeling: Upgrading Faunal (Re)Distribution at Late Bronze Age Mycenae”
S. E. Allen, C. P. Shelton, C. McNamee, K. M. Forste, and A. Niekamp, “Mycenaean Agriculture from the Bottom Up: Integrating Macrobotanical, Microbotanical, and Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Evidence from Tsoungiza and Iklaina”
R. Palmer, “Agriculture in the Linear B Tablets: Data vs. Speculation”
C. Knappett, “The long term of the reduced scale: Aegean miniatures as temporal models”
C. Witmore, “On the Deep Time of Agrarian Entanglements: The case of the Argive Plain”
M. Eaby, T. M. Brogan, C. Sofianou, and Y. Papadatos, “Recent Excavations at Final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Mesorachi, Crete”
O. Mouthuy, J. Driessen, S. Jusseret, M. Devolder, S. Déderix, T. Terrana, T Claeys, and E. Hayter, “Continuing Excavation of the Minoan Ceremonial Complex at Sissi (Crete)”
T. Brogan, V. Apostolakou, P. Betancourt, M. Eaby, K. Chalikias, K. Mountaki, C. McNamee, D. Mylona, and C. Sofianou, “Neopalatial House A.2 and Minoan Aquaculture on Chryssi”
E. Oddo, “The House of the Frescoes at Knossos: Preliminary Results of the First Study Season on the Pottery”
F. Gaignerot-Driessen, “Anavlochos, Crete: Preliminary Results of the 2017 excavations”
M. S. Mook, D. C. Haggis, C. M. Scarry, R. D. Fitzsimons, and W. F. Dibble, “Excavations at Azoria, East Crete, 2016-2017”
K. Fine, “New Investigations into Prehistoric Corinth: a Final Neolithic ‘Cult Vessel’ and Continuity of Ritual Practice”
A. Pearce, “Nilotic or Not? A Re-evaluation of the so-called Nilotic Scenes from Minoan Art and the Importance of Fresh Water in Minoan religion”
E. S. Hayter, “A Game of Stones: an Inventory and Distributional Analysis of the Consumption of Worked Stone at Neopalatial Knossos”
C. A. M. Gardner, and C. Fine, “Mycenaean Kourotrophoi Figurines and Lateralization Bias: How Recent Neurological Research Explains the Left-Cradling Phenomenon”
B. R. Jones, “The Dress on the New Tiryns fresco, Linear B reflections, and the Hagia Triada Sarcophagus”
A. M. Genova, “Heinrich Schliemann’s Knossos: A Failed Proposition for the Excavation of a Lifetime”
R. Kulick, “Neopalatial Urban Landscape Transformations at Bronze Age Palaikastro: A Microecological Narrative through Urban Micromorphology”
B. Burke and N. Herrmann, “Emerging Elites at Early Mycenaean Eleon”
H. Bertram, “Locally Stylish: The Terracottas of Eleon”
Y. Lam and M. Bullock, “Post-Palatial Faunal Assemblages from Eleon”
T. Van Damme, “A Smashing Good Time: Two Communal Drinking Deposits from Ancient Eleon”
B. E. Burns and J. Tynes, “Digital Eleon: Recording the Excavations and Recreating the Experience”
B. Lis and H. Barnard, “Investigating the Function of Mycenaean Pottery at Eleon”
K. Jarriel, “Maritime Mobilities in the Early Cycladic Period”
M. Prent and S. MacVeagh Thorne, “Beyond the Sea: Seven Early Helladic Fortifications in South-East Laconia”
A. Psimogiannou, “From an Egalitarian Neolithic to a Complex Early Bronze Age? A Reexamination of the ‘Eutresis Culture’ Based on New Evidence from Mitrou, East Lokris, Central Greece”
S. R. Stocker, E. Malapani, S. Vitale, C. McNamee, H. Öztürk, and A. Michopoulou, “Excavations at the Early Helladic II Site of Romanou near Pylos, Greece”
K. A. Jazwa, “The Early Helladic II Roofing Tiles from Zygouries (Corinthia, Greece): Form and Context”
M.-P. Montagné, “Use Wear Analysis on Obsidian Tools: Evidence for Fish Processing at Early Bronze Age Mitrou, Greece”
M. Beeler, “Seal Use and Social Change: Early Helladic Sealing Practices in Context”
D. M. Buell and J. C. McEnroe, “Populating the Protopalatial: Architecture and Society at Gournia”
S. Gallimore and K. T. Glowacki, “Stratigraphic Excavations within the Gournia Palace 2011-2014”
R. A. K. Smith, “Ritual Feasting in the Early Neopalatial Period: Middle Minoan III Pottery from the Gournia Palace”
J. T. Barnes, “An LM IA Metal Workshop at Gournia”
B. Kunkel, “A Late Minoan IA Kiln Complex at Gournia”
A. P. Chapin, “The Plasters of the Gournia Palace and Town”
L. V. Watrous, “The Minoan State of Gournia during the Neopalatial Period”
ΑΕΠΕΛ 2/AWOP2
On 1-4 November 2017 the Β’ Επιστημονική Συνάντηση ‘Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στην Πελοπόννησο’ (ΑΕΠΕΛ 2). Second Scientific Meeting of the “Archaeological Work in the Peloponnese” (AWOP 2) was held in Kalamata. Further information is available at https://www.uop.gr/nea/ekdilosis. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
Α. Καζνέση, Χ. Κονταξή, and Ε. Στραβοπόδη, “Από σπηλιά σε σπηλιά: δυο νεολιθικά σπήλαια σε συνάρτηση στο Αλεποχώρι Λακωνίας”
Ε. Στραβοπόδη, “Επαναπροσδιορισμός του επιδημιολογικού προφίλ της προϊστορικής Ελλάδος: νέες μεθοδολογικές προσεγγίσεις στη μελέτη αρχαίου οστού”
E. Malapani, S. R. Stocker, S. Vitale, C. McNamee, H. Öztürk, and A. Michopoulou, “New Research at the Early Bronze Age site of Romanou”
Σ.-Μ. Βαλαμώτη, “Οινοποίηση στη Μεσσηνία κατά την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Χαλκού; Πρόσφατα αρχαιοβοτανικά ευρήματα από τη θέση Π.Ο.Τ.Α. Ρωμανού”
Γ. Φράγκου, “Μια νέα θέση Πρωτοελλαδικής εποχής στην Μεσσηνία”
Ε.-Ί. Κόλια and Α. Σπυρούλιας, “Στοιχεία οργάνωσης και χρήσης του χώρου στον πρωτοελλαδικό οικισμό της Κερύνειας, στην Αχαΐα”
Κ. Ακτύπη, “Οικισμός της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Χαλκού στην περιοχή «Κοτρώνι» της Πάτρας”
Γ. Τσιαγγούρης, “Πρωτοελλαδικός κεραμικός κλίβανος στη Σπάρτη”
M. E. Zavadil, “Τhe acropolis at Pheneos (Arcadia) in the Middle Helladic period. Preliminary results of the Greek-Austrian excavations, 2011-2013”
Γ. Σμέρου, “Κατάλοιπα προϊστορικού οικισμού στην θέση ‘Άγιος Κωνσταντίνος’ στο Στάδιο Τεγέας”
Β. Αργυρόπουλος, “Προϊστορικός οικισμός Ντασκά Τριταίας στην Αχαΐα. Μια πρώτη προσέγγιση”
B. Eder, J. Huber, E.-I. Kolia, P. Moutzouridis, K. Nikolentzos, and A. Vött, “New Research at Kleidi-Samikon”
G. Kordatzaki, E. Kiriatzi, J. Huber, B. Eder, H. Mommsen, K. Nikolentzos, and P. Moutzouridis, “Kakovatos and Triphylia during the Early Mycenaean times: ceramic technology and provenance perspective”
Σ. Βουτσάκη, V. Hachtmann, and Ι. Μουτάφη, “To Βόρειο Νεκροταφείο στον Αγ. Βασίλειο Λακωνίας. Η ιστορία του χώρου και η εξέλιξη των ταφικών εθίμων”
C. W. Wiersma, S. Voutsaki, W. de Neef, and A. Vasilogamvrou, “The Ayios Vasilios Survey Project”
K. A. Shelton and L. A. Kvapil, “Petsas House, Mycenae: domestic and industrial activities in a settlement context”
Χ. Μαγγίδης, “Η αρχαιολογική ανακάλυψη και ταύτιση του ανακτορικού θρόνου των Μυκηνών”
Ε. Χ. Παλαιολόγου, “Μυκήνες: Θαλαμωτός τάφος σημαντικού Μυκηναίου”
L. A. Kvapil, K. Shelton, K. Kissas, and G. C. Price, “TAPHOS, the Tombs of Aidonia Preservation, Heritage, and ExplOration Synergasia”
Α. Μπάνου, “Το μινωικό ιερό κορυφής στον Άγιο Γεώργιο στο Βουνό Κυθήρων: Τα νεότερα αποτελέσματα της έρευνας (2015)”
Δ. Κουτσούμπα and J. Beck, “Η έρευνα στον βυθισμένο προϊστορικό οικισμό στη θέση ‘Λαμπαγιαννάς’ Αργολίδας”
Δ. Κουρκουμέλης, B. Lovén, and Π. Μίχα, “Πρόσφατες υποθαλάσσιες αρχαιολογικές έρευνες στον αρχαίο λιμένα Λεχαίου”
Γ. Χαιρετάκης, “Στον ‘δρόμο’ για τις Κεγχρεές: Επανεξετάζοντας τους πύργους σε βραχονησίδες του Σαρωνικού”
Σ. Φριτζίλας, “Νεότερες έρευνες στη θέση «Γραμμένο» της Νήσου Πρώτης”
Δ. Ευαγγελιστής, Κ. Μπάικα, and J. Pakkanen, “Kyllene Harbour Project 2007-2017: Ενάλια έρευνα και διεπιστημονικές προσεγγίσεις στο αρχαίο και μεσαιωνικό λιμάνι της Κυλλήνης/Γλαρέντζας”
Π. Γαλιατσάτου, “Πιλοτικό πρόγραμμα συντήρησης της Εφορείας Εναλίων Αρχαιοτήτων σε συνεργασία με το ISCR της Ρώμης σε ενάλια αρχαιολογικά κατάλοιπα της Παλαιάς Επιδαύρου”
Α. Κατάκος, Μ. Κυλάφη, Ε. Παλαμάρα, and Ν. Ζαχαριάς, “Συντήρηση και μελέτη παρουσίασης των εκθεμάτων στο πλαίσιο της επανέκθεσης του Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου Πύλου”
Ε. Μηλίτση, Ά.-Β. Καραπαναγιώτου, Δ. Πίκουλα, Δ. Κοσμόπουλος, and Μ. Ζαχαροπούλου, “Ο αναβαθμισμένος αρχαιολογικός χώρος του Ανακτόρου του Νέστορος και η λειτουργία του ως φορέας αειφόρου πολιτιστικής ανάπτυξης”
Μ. Κυλάφη, Ε. Μηλίτση, Ε. Μαλαπάνη, Α. Τζαμουράνη, Μ. Τσουλάκου, Δ. Πίκουλα, and Α. Κατάκος, “Επανέκθεση Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου Πύλου”
Codebreakers and Groundbreakers
From 24 October 2017 to 4 February 2018 an interdisciplinary exhibition entitled Codebreakers and Groundbreakers is on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge. This exhibit brings together the remarkable intellectual achievements and parallel narratives of two groups of ‘codebreakers’ working at the same time, but independently: those involved in breaking the Second World War codes and those who deciphered the ancient script of Linear B – Europe’s earliest comprehensible writing system. In a display including an Enigma machine, a rare loan from GCHQ, and unique archival documents held at the University of Cambridge, the exhibition explores and celebrates the genius of Second World War codebreakers such as Alan Turing and Bill Tutte; as well as Michael Ventris and John Chadwick (himself a Bletchley codebreaker) who deciphered Linear B. Free of charge. Further information is available at http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/calendar/whatson/codebreakers-and-groundbreakers.