On 7-9 June 2017 the XIIIth International Meeting of Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas (ASWA2017) will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. Further information is available at https://aswa2017.sciencesconf.org/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include
K. Pappayiannis et al., "Mousetrack: tracking the earliest evidence for the house mouse dispersal in Cyprus and Anatolia using Geometric Morphometrics Analysis and aDNA"
J.-D. Vigne et al., "Evolution of the Cypriot vertebrate fauna during the Neolithic transition, 13th – 9th millennia BP"
S. Vitezović et al., "Exploitation of animal resources in the Early Neolithic of Thrace: preliminary results from the site of Nova"
On 21-22 June 2017 an international conference entitled Dynamics and Organisation of Textile Production in Past Societies in Europe and the Mediterranean will be held by the Polish Academy of Sciences in Łódź, Poland. Further information is available at http://www.archeo.uw.edu.pl/zalaczniki/upload1904.pdf. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
M. Siennicka, "'Greek Textile Tools'. Continuity and changes in textile production in Early Bronze Age Greece"
M. Vetters, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it? An endeavour in defining contexts of textile production on the Middle Helladic Greek mainland and in comparing textile technology/ies"
A. Ulanowska, "But how were they made? More about patterned textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age"
L. Bombardieri and G. Muti, "Erimi Laonin tou Porakou. A textile community of practice in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus"
D. Cassuto, "Domestic and non-domestic modes of textile production at Iron Age Tell eș-Șâfī/Gath"
Ground Stone Artifacts and Society
On 12-15 September 2017 an international conference entitled Ground Stone Artifacts and Society will be held by the Association for Ground Stone Tools Research in Mainz, Germany on the quarrying, production, function and exchange of ground stone artifacts. Further information is available at https://converia.uni-mainz.de/frontend/index.php?folder_id=254. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
C. Schwall, M. Brandl, D. Wolf, L. Sørensen, B. Horejs, and T. Gluhak, "From near and far: Stone procurement and exchange at Çukuriçi Höyük in Western Anatolia"
A. Stroulia, "Biographical Highlights for the Celts of Varemeni-Goulon, Northern Greece"
T. Bekiaris, "Ground stone technology in context: consumption of grinding tools and social practice at Neolithic Avgi, NW Greece"
On 31 May 2017 abstracts (250-300 words) are due for the People of the Great Stones Symposium: Megaliths, Mounds, Kivas, Cairns, to be held from 18-22 March 2018 at the State College of Florida, Lakewood Ranch Campus in the Sarasota/Bradenton area on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Contributions (25 minutes) are sought on monumentality and the materiality of stone considering non-industrial cultures from the Old and/or New World on art and architecture, belief systems, social structure, sustainability, and use of natural phenomena. Further information is available at http://www.otsf.org/greatstonesymposium.html.
On 20-22 April 2017 the Tenth Experimental Archaeology Conference (EAC10) will be held in Leiden. Further information is available at http://exarc.net/meetings/eac10. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
M. R. Pitone, "Experimental Archaeometallurgy of Early-Middle Bronze Age Cyprus: pilot experiments of copper smelting at Pyrgos-Mavroraki"
G. Vavouranakis, "The sea inside: Past research retentions and future conceptual protentions in the study of the Prehistoric Aegean seascapes"
M. Pomadère, "Vivre, travailler et mourir près de l'eau : usages et fonctions multiples du territoire côtier du site minoen de Malia"
R. Brugge, "The physical and cultural maritime landscape: the case of southern Euboia"
D. Catapoti, "To reach a port we must set sail: Boats and way finding in Prehistoric Aegean"
S. Verdan, "Autour de Glaukos : aspects sensoriels et culturels de la plongée en Grèce ancienne"
A. Pinto, " Le triton : un son venu de la mer"
Making Cities
On 18-19 May 2017 an international symposium entitled Making Cities: Economies of production and urbanisation in Mediterranean Europe 1000-500 BCE will be held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. Further information is available at http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/events/procon. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
J. Cutler, "Production and consumption of textiles in Greece"
A. Mazarakis Ainian, "Production activities in the South Euboean Gulf during the Early Iron Age"
K. Reber, "Production activities and economy in Early Iron Age Eretria"
A. Kotsonas, "Making Cretan Cities: Urbanisation, Demography and Economic Specialisation from the Early Iron Age to the Archaic period"
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