On 12 February 2016 applications are due for the Michael Ventris Memorial Award for Mycenaean Studies of up to £2000, to be awarded to scholars who have obtained a doctorate within the past eight years or postgraduate students about to complete the doctorate in the field of Mycenaean civilization or kindred subjects, to promote research in (1) Linear B and other Bronze Age scripts of the Aegean and Cyprus and their historical and cultural connections, or (2) all other aspects of the Bronze Age of the Aegean and Cyprus. Applications (6 pages maximum) should be sent by email as a PDF attachment to
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On 22 February 2016 abstracts are due for the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG-US) 2016. Bolder Theory: time, matter, ontology and the archaeological difference, to be hosted by the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder on 22-24 April 2016. Further information, including already accepted conference sessions, is available at http://anthropology.colorado.edu/tag2016/.
Mycenaean Seminars
The University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of Classical Studies has announced the following schedule of Mycenaean Seminars for spring 2016, to take place in the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, South Block, Ground Floor G22 / 26, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Unless otherwise stated, Mycenaean Seminars begin at 3:30 pm. Further information is available at http://icls.sas.ac.uk/institute/meetingslist/index.html or from Dr. Olga Krzyszkowska at
20 January 2016: P. Tomkins, “Making p(a)laces, marking differences. Exploring the ‘prepalatial' origins of the Minoan palaces
17 February 2016: D. Nakassis, “Digital Nestor: Aegean scripts in the 21st century”
16 March 2016: B. Eder, “Kakovatos in Triphylia (Peloponnese): rise and fall of an Early Mycenaean site”
18 May 2016: G. Flouda, “Digging up the past: the Minoan site of Apesokari in the Mesara”
New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium has announced the following lectures, to take place at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts, One East 78th Street, NY, New York at 6:30 pm. Interested guests are always welcome; R.S.V.P. 212-992-5803 or
12 February 2016: Lorenzo D’Alfonso, “New insights in Central Anatolia after the fall of the Hittite Empire: reconsidering the early stages of Phrygia and the Neo-Hittite polities”
11 March 2016: J. Murphy, “Death in Bronze Age Pylos”
1 April 2016: C. von Ruden, “Why Tell el-Dab'a Matters. Skill and Materiality in Painting the Palace District of Ezbet Helmi"
20 May 2016, J. Weingarten, “The Arrival of Monsters in MM II Minoan Crete: why then, and what happened next?”
Aegean Lectures
The Aegeus Society for Aegean Prehistory and the Swedish Institute at Athens have announced the Aegean Lectures in winter and spring 2016, to take place at the Swedish Institute at Athens at 7:00 pm. Further information is available at http://www.aegeussociety.org/gr/index.php/aegean-lectures/
29 January 2016: Σ. Νανόγλου, “Ερμηνευτικές προσεγγίσεις στα προϊστορικά ειδώλια”
19 February 2016: V. Vlachou, “Exploring the archaeology of Marathon from the 10th to the 7th c. BCE”
4 March 2016: Δ. Παναγιωτόπουλος, “Μινωική Κουμάσα 2012-2016. Στόχοι, αποτελέσματα και οράματα του νέου διεπιστημονικού προγράμματος”
15 April 2016: D. Mylona, “Animal remains in context: issues of economy and food choices at Neopalatial Mochlos, Crete”
May/June 2016: J. Bennet, “What were Aegean texts for?”
GAO Conference 2016
On 12-13 March 2016 the Graduate Archaology at Oxford Conference: Human-Nature Interactions in Archaeological Research will be held by the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Further information is available at http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/gao.html. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include
K. Trimmis, “The ‘teahouse paradox’: Human – Cave interaction in the Neolithic of South East Europe as case study for an Archaeology of Feelings”
N. Ayash, “Stars in the Minoan religion”
M. Nugent, “Ideal, real and imagined: generating value and identity – botanic motifs of the Bronze Age Cycladic Islands”
A. Bogaard, “Nature and nurture in early farming: Practical (and magical) action at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, central Anatolia”
A. Pateraki, “Minoans and the Sea”
In Poseidon's Realm XXI
On 21-24 April 2016 the conference In Poseidon's Realm XXI: Underwater archaeology - interdisciplinary approaches and technical innovation will be held in Dresden, Germany. Further information is available at http://www.deguwa.org/?id=266. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include
H. W. Daehnhardt and H. Hristov, “The storm of the Sea People and the Battle of the Delta”
On 25-29 April 2016 the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (10th ICAANE) will be held in Vienna, Austria. Further information is available at http://www.orea.oeaw.ac.at/10icaane.html. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
B. Horejs and S. Schwall, "Permanent or Seasonal? Evidence of Settlements in Late Chalcolithic Western Anatolia"
B. Milic and B. Horejs, "Finding 'East' on the 'West' – alien elements and common repertoires in lithics of 7th millennium BC Çukuriçi Höyük in Aegean Turkey"
M. Montesanto, "Evidence of Transformation: The Early Iron Age Aegeanizing Pottery Assemblage at Alalakh"
On 18-21 May 2016 the 16th International Aegean Conference ΕΣΠΕΡΟΣ / ΗESPEROS: The Aegean Seen From The Westwill be held at the University of Ioannina. Further information is available at http://hesperos-aegaeum-16.conf.uoi.gr/. The program will be:
E. Agolli, “Models of Social Networks of Southeast Albania in Late Prehistory”
P. Bellintani and F. Gonzato, “Luxury Production. Amber and Glass from the Recent and Final Bronze Age Italy. A Northeastern Perspective”
L. Bejko, “Interactions of the Albanian prehistoric communities with the Aegean, Revisited: old data and recent fieldwork”