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Cycladic Seminar

The Cycladic Seminar has announced the following schedule of lectures in Autumn 2016, to be held at the Archaeological Society at Athens, 22 Panepistimiou Street.

4 October 2016: D. Panagiotopoulos, "An enigmatic (;) absence. On the meagre evidence for seals and sealing practices in the Bronze Age Cyclades"

8 December 2016: J. Wright, "Full Circle: the tale of a prehistoric survey on Kythnos"

Dialoghi sull'Archeologia della Magna Grecia e del Mediterraneo

On 7-9 September 2016 a conference entitled Dialoghi sull'Archeologia della Magna Grecia e del Mediterraneo: Rassegna annual di studi, ricerche e notizie di scoperte promossa dalla Fondazione Paestum will be held in Paestum. Further information is available at http://www.dialarchmed.com/en/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:

A. Vassilogamvrou, "The Mycenaean palace of Sparta and his weapons. An epochal discovery"

12th International Congress of Cretan Studies

On 21-24 September 2016 the 12 Διεθνές Κρητολογικό Συνέδριο. 12th International Congress of Cretan Studies will be held in Heraklion. Further information is available at http://www.12-iccs.gr./index.php/12ICCS/ICCS2016. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:

G. Cadogan, "Μινωικές μετακινήσεις: "δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸνποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης'"

M. Cultraro, "The PREPI Project: Late Neolithic and Early Minoan settlement at Siderospilia, Prinias"

D. Lange, "Social mobility and collective identity. The Early Minoan Tholos tombs and the individual"

(Social) Place and Space in Early Mycenaean Greece

On 5-8 October 2016 a conference entitled (Social) Place and Space in Early Mycenaean Greece, organized by the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Cooperation with the Austrian Archaeological Institute will be held in Athens. Further information is available at http://www.orea.oeaw.ac.at/place-and-space.html. The program will be:

J. C. Wright, "Early Mycenaean Greece: what we still don't know"

B. Eder, G. Hatzi-Spiliopoulou, and B. Horejs, "Strategies in space: the Early Mycenaean site of Kakovatos in Triphylia"

C. de Vree, "The tholos tombs of Kakovatos – their place in Early Mycenaean Greece"

On 23-25 September 2016 an international workshop entitled Aegean World and South Caucasus: Cultural Relations in the Bronze Age will be held in Tbilisi. The program will be:

Z. Bragvadze, "Colchis-Aegean Relations in the Middle Bronze Age"

M. Kvachadze and G. Narimanishvili, "Late Bronze-Early Iron Ages Beads from Trialeti"

N. Shanshashvili and G. Narimanishvili, "Dynamics and Nature of the Relations Between South Caucasus and Aegean World in the Bronze Age"

Commemorative Symposium for Professor Oliver Rackham

On 13-14 August 2016 a Commemorative Symposium for Professor Oliver Rackham was held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Further information is available at http://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/corpus-events/commemorative-symposium-for-professor-oliver-rackham/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:

P. Warren, “Oliver Rackham and the Ancient Landscapes of Crete”

WAC-8 Kyoto

On 28 August - 1 September 2016 the Eighth World Archaeological Congress (WAC-8 Kyoto) was held at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Further information is available at http://wac8.org/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:

E. Aspöck, “Digitizing Early Farming Cultures: sharing data on Neolithic sites and finds in Greece and Anatolia”

K. Lorentz, “Archaeologies of Childhood in the Mediterranean: The case of Cyprus”

D. Pullen, “Entrepreneurs, the Market, and Craft Production in Mycenaean State Economies”

On 31 August – 4 September 2016 the 22nd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA AM 2016) was held in Vilnius, Lithuania. Further information is available at http://www.e-a-a.org/ or http://eaavilnius2016.lt/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:

N. Russell, "Spirit Birds at Neolithic Çatalhöyük"

M. Crudo, J. K. Jacobsen, G. P. Mittica, and S. G. Saxkjaer, "Greek Migration along the Ionian Coastline (Southern Italy)"

K. Luci, "The Middle Bronze Age necropolis in Gllareva - the Mycenaean influence in Kosova"

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