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MAGG

On 8 November 2024 the 3rd Meeting of the Archaeobotany in Greece Group (MAGG) will be held online. Further information is available at https://www.efa.gr/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024-11-08_ARCHEOBOTANIQUE_programme.pdf. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
S. M. Valamoti, “Identification Criteria, Mystery Seeds and Misidentifications: Coming to Terms with a Process”
C. Diffey, A. Livarda, and H. A. Orengo, “‘DarkSeeds Updated’: Ongoing Investigations into the Nature of Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age Agricultural Economies in the Aegean”
A. Karathanou, “Charred Macrobotanical Remains from the 2nd mil. B.C. Kolonna, Aigina: Some First Results from the Study of Area K10”
S. Gkinoudis and E. Margaritis, “Bronze Age Aegean Agricultural Economy: Project Presentation”
T. Maltas, “Crop Diversity in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean: Regional Trends and their Agroecological Significance”
G. Tsartsidou and L. Vokotopoulos, “Phytolith Evidence on Grapevine Cultivation at the Minoan Agricultural Terraces of Choiromandres, Eastern Crete”
G. Kasapidou and E. Margaritis, “Exploring Plant-related Practices in the Mycenaean Site of Iklaina”
N. C. Andriopoulou, E. Apostolaki, and C. E. Galanaki, “Preservation of Phytoliths from the Sediments of the Protopalatial Settlement of Agriana, North-Central Crete”
L. Picornell-Gelabert, M. Ntinou, T. Brogan, A. Livarda, C. H. Sophianou, and J. Soles, “The Role of Trees in Late Minoan East Crete Settlements: An Anthracological Approach”
A. Mavromati, “Bronze Age Vegetation in the Cyclades: A View from the Island Complex of Santorini”

SEAC 2024

On 12-17 November 2024 the XXXI Societé Européenne pour l’Astronomie dans la Culture (SEAC 2024): Skyscapes in the Sun Island will be held in Catania, Sicily. Further information is available at https://www.seac2024catania.com/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. Riorden and A. Orlando, “Archaeoastronomy and Landscape at Troy”
E. Riorden and A. Orlando, “An Early Bronze Age open-air sanctuary at Troy with depiction of Orion constellation”

ASOR 2024

On 20-23 November 2024 the American Schools of Overseas Research Annual Meetings (ASOR 2024) will be held in Boston and hybrid format. Further information is available at https://www.asor.org/am/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Georgiou, “After 1177 BC: The Case of Cyprus”
L. Hitchcock, “This-Integration: When Utopia is Dystopia (aka 1176 BCE)”
E. Cline: Respondent to workshop “What Happened after Collapse? A Panel Discussion on After 1177 BC”
J. R. Chadwick, “Gath of the Philistines, Khirbet Qeiyafa, and the Metheg-ammah of 2 Samuel 8: Observations, Suggestions, and a Unique Proposal”
E. Fuller, “Desolate Shores: Late Bronze Age Aegean Harbours as Heterotopias”
J. Darwin, “Ships, Shells and Cyprus: The Maritime Significance of Late Cypriot Cult at Kition”
J. C. Skinner and A. E. Killebrew, “The Archaeology of Mediterranean Identities in the Erzin, Iskenderun, and Arsuz Plains (Cilicia, Turkey): The Bay of Iskenderun Landscape Archaeology Survey”
L. Meiberg, “A New Examination of the Philistine Pottery from the Weisenfreund Collection in the Hecht Museum”
K. M. Grossman, T. S. Paulette, L. Graham, and A. McCarthy, “Archaeological Research at Makounta-Voules-Mersinoudia, 2023–2024: New Results from a Prehistoric Site on the Northwest Coast of Cyprus”
L. Crewe, “The Bronze Age Settlement of Kissonerga-Skalia”
M. Godsey, T. Landvatter, and B. R. Olson, “Daily Life in a Fortification on Cyprus: Excavations at Pyla-Vigla 2024”
A. M. Wright, “Managing a Sustainable Database for the Excavations at Idalion, Cyprus”
P. M. Fischer, “The Cemetery of the Cosmopolitan Societies of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus: Results from Recent Field Work”
S. Guterman and A. M. Maeir, “Clay Chronicles: The Figurines from Area P at Tell es-Safi/Gath”
E. Anderson, “Mutual Invasions? Moving Beyond Narratives of Takeover and Emulation in the Late Bronze Age Aegean”
B. Davis, “The Origin of Philistia - an Aegean Invasion?”
A. Georgiadou and A. Georgiou, “Maritime Transport Containers from the Region of Paphos: Exploring External Contacts and Exchange Networks in Southwestern Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age”
B. A. Clark, L. Recht, M. Yamasaki, and K. Zeman-Wiśniewska “Pithoi and Bathtubs: Storage and Processing at Erimi-Pitharka”
C. Barnes, G. C. Braun “A Study of Monumental Ashlar Constructions in Late Bronze Age Cyprus”
Z. Chovanec, “Local Vegetation Considerations in Interpreting Analysis of Microbotanical Remains: A View from Ais Giorkis, Cyprus”
G. Bourogiannis, “Phoenician Cult at the Sanctuary of Ayia Irini, Cyprus?”
B. A. Clark, “The Practicalities of a Digital Typology: A Case Study from Erimi-Pitharka”
C. Trent, D. Adams, and A. M. Büyükkarakaya, “Utilizing Two Dental Stress Markers to Infer the Most Stressful Periods of Juvenility at Early Bronze Age Karataş-Semayük”
Ç. Bal and E. Piskin, “The 4.2 ka BP Event in Western Anatolia: Tracing the Impact of Climatic Change”
M. T. Horowitz, “The 2024 Field Season of the Kalavasos-Laroumena and Arkhangelos Archaeological Research Project”
H. Herrick, “‘Getting Plastered!’: Experimental Lime Plaster Production and the Analysis of Late Bronze Age Plaster Floors at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, Cyprus”
E. H. Cline, “The Relentless Search for Atlantis and the Public Perceptive of Ancient Catastrophes”
S. J. Richardson, H. J. Greenfield, and A. M. Maeir, “Scanning, Statistics, and Scrutiny: Digitally Integrating Specialist and Legacy Datasets to Understand the Use of Space in the E5 Strata at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath”
J. Davis, S. R. Stocker, and M. Kilani, “Hathor at the Palace of Nestor in Bronze Age Greece”

ΑΕΠΕΛ4

On 20-23 November 2024 Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στην Πελοπόννησο: η τέταρτη συνάντηση (ΑΕΠΕΛ4) will be held in Kalamata. Further information is available at https://ham.uop.gr/arhaiologiko-ergo-stin-peloponniso-aepel. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
Δ. Χατζηαγγέλου, “Nεολιθικό αγγείο από το σπήλαιο της Κλένιας με γραπτή απόδοση προσώπου στις λαβές του”
Ά. Παπαδημητρίου, “‘Τίρυνθά τε τειχιόεσσα’: Μια μυκηναϊκή ακρόπολη στον 21ο αιώνα”
Α. Κόσσυβα, “Μυκηναίοι στην Ερμιονίδα: Η μαρτυρία των νεκρών”
Σ. Βουτσάκη, “Το Βόρειο Νεκροταφείο στον Άγιο Βασίλειο Λακωνίας: Νέα πορίσματα και νέα ερωτήματα”
Ε. Μπάνου and Δ. Κουτσούμπα, “Νέα δεδομένα για τον βυθισμένο προϊστορικό οικισμό Παυλοπετρίου Ελαφονήσου Λακωνίας”
Ν. Παπαδημητρίου, Ε. Παπακωνσταντίνου, Α. Μπαλιτσάρη, Κ. Νικολέντζος, Μ. Αναστασιάδου, Ο. Μεταξάς, and Φ. Τσεμπερά, “To προϊστορικό νεκροταφείο στη θέση Κλειδί Κάτω Σαμικού Ηλείας”
Χ. Ματζάνας, “Σωρός κρανίων σε αψιδωτό κτήριο της Μέσης/Νεότερης Νεολιθικής και ενδείξεις μεταθανάτιας (;) αποκοπής ανθρώπινων μελών σε νεκροταφείο της Νεολιθικής στον Χελωνάτα Ηλείας”
Χ. Παπούλια, “‘Αρχαιολογική έρευνα επιφανείας στην Άνω Μεσσηνία (2021-2025)’: τεχνολογία λαξευμένου λίθου από υπαίθριες θέσεις της BA Μεσσηνίας”
Ε. Ζυμή, Α. Μπάνου, Μ. Ξανθοπούλου, Γ. Μαλαπέρδας, Ε. Μηλίτση-Κεχαγιά, and Μ. Κάππας, “‘Αρχαιολογική έρευνα επιφανείας στην Άνω Μεσσηνία (2021-2025)’: αρχική επισκόπηση και προκαταρκτικά αποτελέσματα”
Α.-Χ. Νικόλαρου, “Κέρατα καθοσιώσεως: Ένα μινωικό σύμβολο στη μυκηναϊκή Πελοπόννησο”
Γ. Γρηγορακάκης and Ε. Παπαφλωράτου, “Η Πρώιμη Εποχή του Σιδήρου στην Κυνουρία: Το νεκροταφείο στη θέση ‘Μάκρος’”
Ε. Σαρρή, Χ. Αντωνιάδης, Χ. Τζανετέα, and Σ. Ψυχογυιός, “Εργασίες ανάδειξης του αρχαιολογικού χώρου της Λέρνας: πεπραγμένα και προοπτικές”

Status

On 28-29 November 2024 an online symposium entitled Decoding Representations of Status in the Bronze Age Aegean: Patterns, definitions and interpretations will be held via Zoom, hosted by the Dokuz Eylül University Archaeology and Archeometry Application and Research Center in Türkiye and the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens. Further information is available at https://www.iihsa.ie/events/symposium-decoding-representations-of-status-in-the-bronze-age-aegean-patterns-definitions-and-interpretations. The program will be:
C. De Gregorio, “Reassessing Social Distinctions: Ceramic Motifs and Elite Symbolism in Southern Crete’s Tholos Tombs during the Prepalatial to Protopalatial Transition”
I. Kostopoulou, “Signs of Status? Imported Pottery and Social Structure at Pyla-Kokkinokremos”
S. Spanos, “Koukounaries. The pictorial vase painting and the manifestation of status”
L. Balogianni, “Approaching aspects of status through pottery analysis: the case of the Zakros palace”
E. Gerontakou and M. Kyritsi, “Religious or/and political? Display of status through emblematic symbols from the Minoan palace of Zakros”
L. Phialon, V. Aravantinos, and E. Tsota, “Some observations on the depiction of ‘horns of consecration’ on larnakes from Tanagra in Boeotia”
V. Pliatsika, “Earth to earth. Clay figurines from the Atreus tholos tomb at Mycenae”
B. R. Jones, “Decoding the Status of the Ivory Triad from Mycenae: A Re-evaluation of its Hairstyles, Garments, and Poses”
N. Antognelli Michel, “Status of divinity for an interpretation of the ivory head from the cult centre at Mycenae as a goddess statuette”
N. Akıllı, “Status symbol objects in the Early Bronze Age graves of Western Anatolia and the Aegean region”
M. Tsipopoulou, “‘Διαχωρίζοντας την ήρα από το σταρι’. Τwo attempts at status differentiation in the Early and late Prepalatial phases of the elite necropolis at Petras, Siteia”
G. Grigorakakis, E. Papafloratou, and E. Vika, “Beyond warriors: a burial with weapons in LBA Kefalonia”
C. Zikidi, “Silent Echoes: Status and the Politicisation of Death during the Late Helladic period in Messenia (Greece)”
K. Paschalidis, “Cups of blessing. Decoding the pattern of men with weapons and drinking vessels in the LBA Aegean”
D. M. Wheeler, “Archive and Repertoire in the Mycenaean Funeral”
S. Mills, “Power and status in the Argolid in the Late Helladic III period”
Ö. Çelik and Z. Derin, “Indicators of the Existence of Organizational Management at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium BCE: The Case of Yassıtepe Höyüğü”
J. Meier, “Status and Surplus from Suids at Petsas House, Mycenae”
L. Platon and A. Salichou, “Status in structure: a view from the palatial and domestic architecture of Minoan Zakros”
N. Bovoleti Ayash, “Insights of the Archaeological Implementation of the so- called Sanctuary of Koumasa”
A. Pefani, “Wall-paintings in their architectural environment: unraveling socio- political strategies through sensorial impact at the palace of Pylos”
H. Oniz, “Kumluca Bronze Age Shipwreck excavation – Antalya/Türkiye”
S. Dimaki, M.-C. Staikou, and Eleni Filippaki, “Metal objects from Late Helladic burials in Kalapodi, Phtiotis, Central Greece: symbols of status and wealth”
S. Aulsebrook, “Metals = Status: The Fundamental Law of the Mycenaean World?”
A. M. Vergaki, “Feasts as Rituals of Status: The case of Trypiti and Koumasa on the Southern Cretan Mountains”
T. S. Andreovits, “Shaping gender and status performances in Minoan seal imagery”
I. G. Worrall, “Interpreting Colour: The use of White in Late Bronze Age Aegean Wall Art”
K. Voutsa, “More than a bead: adding symbolic character to a small, semi- precious stone”
K. Nikita, “The power of technology, aesthetics and possession: the combination of glass with gold for the Early Mycenaean elites”
C. Kekes, “Nonverbal expression of status in the Bronze Age Aegean”
U. Thaler, “Competitive conformity. Prestige, self-limiting ambition and the fragility of power”
V. Petrakis, “Exploring nuances of status in the Third Palace Period Aegean: palatial agents in context”
D. Papadimitriou, “Absent Elites”
H. Kan, “Kings and Great Kings of the Mediterranean”
J. Kelder, “Empire Lost. On the status of the Ahhiyawan ‘LUGAL.GAL’ and the state of academic debate”
M. A. Erdem and Z. Derin, “The presence of the elites in Western Anatolia in the 2nd Millenium BC finds from İzmir Yassıtepe”
E. Kortanoğlu, “Narrative Production Processes in the Construction of Ancient Greek Cultural Chronology”

Inequality

On 28-29 November 2024 a conference entitled Social and Gender Inequality in Early Iron Age Greece will be held in Vienna. Further information is available at https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/events/event-detail/social-and-gender-inequality-in-early-iron-age-greece-1-1. The program will be:
S. Gimatzidis, “Introduction to the Social and Gender Inequality in Early Greece”
H. van Wees, “Textual and material evidence for social inequality: minding the gap”
B. A. Olsen, “Gender and Coming-of-Age Rituals in the Early Iron Age: Archaeology vs Historical Memory”
D. Lyons, “Who Wields the Shuttle?: Women's Agency in Light of the New Materialism”
J. Whitley, “From warriors to heroes: Early Iron Age weapon burial rituals and narratives of the self”
S. C. Murray, “Socio-Economic Change, Gender, and Labor Allocation in the Aegean Early Iron Age”
J. M. Luce, “The funerary 'sequence' in Iron Age Greece, between community and society”
O. Mariaud, “Formal burial or formal cemetery? Returning to the burial customs, monuments and social inequality of Early Iron Age Greece”
S. Gimatzidis, “Social contradictions in central Greece during the Early Iron Age”
M. Rönnberg, “Warriors, Rich Ladies and Invisible Children? Social and Gender Differentiation at Athenian Gravesites during the Early Iron Age”
M. Haysom, “Cretan Women Across the Iron Age”
M. D’Acunto, “Social and Gender Inequality in Early Iron Age and Early Archaic Dodecanese”
G. Papasavvas, “People and objects on the move: Migrating memories, antiques, and social power in Early Iron Age Cyprus”
F. Bernstein, “Social Inequality and its Persistence: A Look at the Early Colonial World of the Greeks”
A. Esposito, “Craft practices and Mediterranean trade networks: an overview of women and socio-economic relations in Italy (IXth-VIth centuries BC)”
F. Quondam, “A view from the West: Gender and Social Inequalities in Early Iron Age and Archaic Age Southern Italy”
M. Pacciarelli, “Final Bronze and Early Iron Age (1050–740 BC) Central Mediterranean: evidence of social inequalities”
A. Naso, “Social and Gender (In)equality in Iron Age and Orientalizing Etruria”
S. Gimatzidis, “Social contradictions in central Greece during the Early Iron Age”
M. Rönnberg, “Warriors, Rich Ladies and Invisible Children? Social and Gender Differentiation at Athenian Gravesites during the Early Iron Age”
S. Sherratt, “The possible effects of economic activity in a wider Mediterranean context on social relations in Early Iron Age Greece”
T. Hodos, “Interpreting Social Inequalities in Iron Age Greece via Multiple Scales of Analysis”

Archaeological Science

On 29 November 2024 an international conference entitled Half a Century of Archaeological Science in Greece will be held at the British School at Athens, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Marc and Ismene Fitch Laboratory for Archaeological Science. Further information is available at https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/fitchanniversaryconference2024/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
K. Harvati, V. Tourloukis, E. Panagopoulou, and P. Karkanas, “Paleolithic dispersals, survivals and population contacts: uncovering human evolution in Greece”
P. Karkanas, “Archaeological soil and sediment microstratigraphy: understanding how archaeological sites are formed”
N. Galanidou, D. Sakellariou, and P. Tsakanikou, “Aegean in the spotlight. A new paradigm for reconstructing early Palaeolithic dispersals, settlement, and landscapes of habit”
A. Krahtopoulou, R. Veropoulidou, C. Frederick, H. A. Orengo, S. Riera-Mora, C. Knappett, and A. Livarda, “Coastal landscapes at Palaikastro, eastern Crete, from the Late Neolithic to the Bronze Age and historical periods”
M. Ntinou, A. Mavromati, and P. M. Theodosaki, “Celebration time, come on: anthracological studies in Greece, looking back, looking ahead”
G. Jones and A. Bogaard, “Linking present and past farming landscapes through archaeobotany”
E. Weiberg, M. Finne, and A. Bonnier, “Climate change and landscape histories in the Aegean”
E. Kiriatzi, C. Gardner, E. Marzec, S. Menelaou, and N. Mueller, “Approaching the past through multiscale analysis of Ceramic Landscapes”
A. Bevan, “On the key-holes and broad-brushes of landscape history”
N. Galanidou, D. Sakellariou, and P. Tsakanikou, “Aegean in the spotlight. A new paradigm for reconstructing early Palaeolithic dispersals, settlement, and landscapes of habit”
E. Skourtanioti, “Ancient DNA research in the Aegean: recent findings and future perspectives”
E. Nikita, “Paleomobility studies in the Aegean: where do we stand and where are we heading?”
B. Lis and E. Kiriatzi, “Tracing craftspeople mobility in the Aegean – past, present and future”
C. Knappett, I. Nikolakopoulou, and J. Hilditch, “Models of movement: integrating networks with multidimensional ceramic data”
T. Valamoti, “Plants and culinary practices in the prehistory and history of the Aegean”
E. Margaritis, “The role of viticulture and wine production in the social revolutions of the third millennium BCE Aegean”
P. Halstead and V. Isaakidou, “Understanding everyday life in ancient Greece: the contribution of zooarchaeology”
M. Roumpou, C. Heron, N. Kalogeropoulos, V. Kilikoglou, S. Boyatzis, and D. Anglos, “Understanding various aspects of everyday life through the analysis of organic residues”
H. Procopiou, “Techniques, senses and emotions: the case study of stone polishing in the prehistoric Aegean”
M. Choleva, T. Ogawa, N. Petropoulos, N. Mueller, and E. Kiriatzi, “Making the everyday world: an anthropological interdisciplinary approach to artefacts and crafts”
C. Renfrew, M. J. Boyd, E. Margaritis, D. Athanasoulis, N. Brodie, R. Campbell, G. Gavalas, M. Gkouma, B. Hartzler, J. Herbst, J. Hilditch, H. Indgjerd, I. Legaki, N. Meyer, I. Moutafi, and J. Wright, “Keros and the Small Cyclades: a twenty-first century approach to research design, field methodology, interdisciplinary research, and answering big questions from granular connected data”
E. Nodarou, D. Mylona, C. Sofianou, and T. Brogan, “Inter-disciplinarity in action: the case of Neopalatial Papadiokampos in east Crete”
S. Triantafyllou, N. Papakonstantinou, and S. Kiorpe, “Experiencing life histories in the prehistoric Aegean: old trends and new perspectives from the study of human remains”

: 01 November 2024

Past Lectures and Conferences

22IBC

On 14-19 October 2024 the 22nd International Congress on Ancient Bronzes: Bronzes in Context (22IBC) was held in Athens. Further information is available at https://www.scuoladiatene.it/images/documents/Programme22IBC_DEF.pdf. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:
A. Giumlía-Mair, P. P. Betancourt, S. C. Ferrence, T. Brogan, J. S. Soles, and C. Sofianou, “Arsenic in copper-based alloys from Prehistory to Roman times”
G. Karamargiou, G. Makris, P. Feleris, and M. Kontaki, “Ο μπρούτζινος αμφορέας από το Λευκαντί επανεξετάζεται: η ολοκλήρωση της αποκατάστασης. The bronze amphora from Lefkandi (Euboea) revisited: the completion of its restoration”
S. Hemingway, A. Belis, D. H. Abramitis, F. Caro, “The Met’s Cesnola Collection of ancient bronzes from Cyprus in context”
Y. Papadatos, G. Vavouranakis, M. Roggenbucke, and E. Filippaki, “Mycenaean bronze weapons in context: the case of the Early Mycenaean ‘Warrior grave’ at Plasi Marathon”
H. Matthäus, “Metal finds in the Siderospilia cemetery at Prinias, central Crete”
T. Brogan, M. Eaby, S. C. Ferrence, and C. Sofianou, “Copper-based artifacts from the Late Minoan IB destruction in East Crete”
K. Kopaka and A. Vratsalis-Pantelaios, “A Bronze Age hoard from the island of Gavdos, Crete”
I. Caloi, “Bronzes in context. Pieces of a bronze panoply from Iron Age Phaistos (Crete)”
C. N. Kleitsas, “Δωδωναῖον Χαλκεῖον. The Geometric tripods from Dodona: divine bronze for human consumption”
N. Blackwell and N. Hirschfeld, “Reassessing the bronze scrap from the Cape Gelidonya shipwreck (South-western Turkey): evidence for deliberate fragmentation?”
E. Konsolaki-Yannopoulou, “Bronze artefacts from Mycenaean tombs at Salamis, Saronic Gulf”
V. Martin, “From Copper to Bronze: changes in the metallic production at Dikili Tash (Eastern Macedonia, Greece) in the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age”
V. Loescher, Hoarding practices or practical storage? Bronze tools deposits in context from Middle and Late Bronze Age Crete”
N. Karra Taniskidou, The role of warfare in the Minoan society during the Late Bronze Age: the case of the Minoan settlement of Kato Zakros, South-eastern Crete”
M. Monnier, “Volumes and contexts: investigating the capacities of Aegean copper-based vessel assemblages”
O. Boitte, “Stone or bronze: arrowheads deposits in Mycenaean tombs of Attica and Argolis”
Y. Brokalakis, “A woman giving birth or a small-size obscenity? Remarks on the meaning and function of a bronze statuette from Trypiti in Crete”

SIMEP 2024

On 21-23 October 2024 the Social Interactions in Mediterranean Prehistory Conference (SIMEP 2024) was held in Barcelona. Further information is available at https://simep2024.com/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:
M. Soressi, “Social interactions between 50,000 to 40,000 years ago in western Europe: exploring the constraints and possibilities of aDNA analysis, high-resolution excavation, and detailed reconstructions of procedures and gestures recorded in material culture”
B. Milić, A. Timpson, B. Horejs, and M. Thomas, “The spread of pressure blade making alongside first farmers – new data modelling from the Neolithic between SW Asia and SE Europe”
S. Wichmann, A. Santamaria, O. Nakoinz, A. K. Loy, A.-T. Andersen, R. Bleile, D. Jonjic, J. Kneisler, N. Nübler, J. Schneeweiß, G. Schwedler, and K. Zerzeropulos, “A quantitative model of conflict, with a case study from Early to Middle Bronze Age Crete”
A. M. Büyükkarakaya and Y. Emmez, “Circulating ideas and exchanged materials in the context of Tepecik-Çiftlik mortuary rituals”
A. King, “Minoan Cult Abroad; The Religious Character of the Minoan Frescoes in Egypt and the Levant”
N. T. Kusk and B. Kızılduman, “Late Bronze Age Cypriot Hoards: What does it tell us?”
T. Huet, N. Mazzucco, and A. Manica, “Climates during the Spread of Farming in Mediterranean”
S. Jiménez Manchón, K. Qeleshi, G. Touchais, and A. Gardeisen “Exploring animal husbandry practices in the southern Balkans: A multiproxy palaeodietary reconstruction using dental wear from Late Neolithic to Bronze age in the Korçë basin, southern Albania”
D. Filioglou, “Animal-human mobility and socioeconomic changes from the Late Neolithic to the Early Bronze II (mid 5th-3rd millennium BCE) in mainland Greece: a preliminary zooarchaeological analysis”
M. Templer, “The spread of the Neolithic from Anatolia across the Central Mediterranean Basin involved the movement of peoples and contacts with the autochthonous Late Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers, who reacted in different way”
P. Tzovaras, “Neolithic seafaring and boatbuilding technology: early maritime connections between the Levant and Cyprus”
J.-P. Demoule, “The Coming of the Greeks, again”
B. Milić, M. Brandl, A. Bulatović, O. Mladenović, M. Gajić-Kvaščev, A. Kapuran, V. Filipović, M. Ljuština, and P. Milojević, “Exploring Long-Distance Connections – Unravelling Obsidian Networks in the Copper and Bronze Ages of the Central Balkans”
V. Petrova and T. Valchev, “Neolithic enclosures of the early sixth millennium BC in Kazlacha (Bulgaria). Research Perspectives”

: 01 November 2024

October 2024 issue available

The October 2024 issue of Nestor (51.10) is available as a free download.

: 30 September 2024

Calls for Papers

TAG45

On 15 October 2024 abstracts are due for the Theoretical Archaeology Group 45th Annual Meeting: Evolution? (TAG45), to be held on 13-15 December 2024 in Bournemouth, Britain. Further information is available at https://tag2024.wordpress.com/. The sessions will be:

• Materiality, metaphor, phenomenology: reconstructing Chris Tilley’s thought and contemporary archaeological theory
• “Does Anybody Ever Listen!?” – Outrage as Method, Evolving Activist Archaeology
• Towards an Archaeology of Cosiness: exploring the lines between comfort, utility, and beyond
• Discomfort in Archaeological Practices: Ethical, social and personal challenges
• Tales as Old as Time: Archaeological Storytelling for Research Dissemination
• Archaeology of Awe: Being moved by being in the world
• Re-Peopling Submerged Prehistory: The Human Dimension in Palaeolandscape Evolution
• (Re) conceptualising the Past? Evolution of the imagined/invented/(re)created Past
• Archaeology & the Media in the Twenty-First Century
• Evolution In Rock Art Theory: Recent Advances in Understanding Images
• Sites, monuments and their landscapes: new perspectives and new narratives
• Skyscapes in Prehistory: evolution, convolution or involution?
• (R)Evolutions: theoretical approaches to death and dying in the prehistoric and protohistoric Mediterranean (7000-700 BCE)
• Evolution
• Thinking Through Plants/Thinking With Plants: Archaeologies of Vegetal Becoming
• (I)Legible Landscapes?
• Excavating the Collection: New ‘evolutions’ in the Archaeology of Museum Collections
• We’ve talked the talk, can we walk the walk? Approaches and actions to encouraging diverse language representation in archaeology/academia
• Moving away from forwards: Reassessing the metaphorical structuring of evolutionism in Archaeological thought
• Mortuary Memes: Advances in the Digital Public Archaeology of Death
• Ancestor? We hardly know her! Rethinking ancestors in archaeology
• Evolving Practice? Knowledge Production and Intercultural Collaboration in Archaeology
• Narrating the Past: Exploring Archaeological Storying and Creativity
• Living (and Working) in Times of Unprecedented Change: A Speculative Design Workshop for Archaeology in the 21st Century
• Heritage Therapy in Theory and Practice: Using Archaeology for Recovery
• Exploring Human-Animal Entanglements in Archaeology: A More-Than-Human Approach
• Experimental archaeology: a useful methodology for researching the evolution of cognitive and behavioural complexity?
• General Session
• Poster Session

EAA AM 2025

On 31 October 2024 proposals for sessions are due for the 31st Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA AM 2025), to be held on 3-6 September 2025 in Belgrade, Serbia. From 20 December 2024 until 6 February 2025 paper and poster abstract submission will be open; on 5 May 2025 registration and payment is due from first authors of paper. Further information and forms are available at https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025. The meeting will consist of sessions, round tables, and poster presentations focusing on the following main themes:
• On artefacts and beyond
• Intertwined Epistemologies: Transcending the Data – Theory Divide
• Exploring methods in research, education and communication
• De nobis fabula narratur: archaeological practice and a profession in flux
• Finding the way! Archaeological sciences and opening new research perspectives
• Intertwining archaeology, heritage, and museums
• Climate Change in the Past and Present
• Along and across the Danube!

MAGS 2025

On 1 November 2024 abstracts (250 words) are due for the 6th Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium (MAGS 2025), to be held at the University of Ioannina, Greece on 2-5 April 2025. Further information is available at https://hff-mags.org/. Papers will be particularly welcomed on the development, breakthroughs of research, and recent discoveries in the maritime archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean region via interdisciplinary methods, in addition to the following themes:
• Nautical and Harbour Archaeology
• Maritime Networks and Social Interactions
• Maritime Cultural Landscapes and Seafaring Communities
• Geoarchaeology and Palaeoenvironments
• Sustainability and Historic Ships
• Ship Science and Engineering of Ancient Boats/Harbours
• Maritime History, Ethnography and Art

CEA

On 30 November 2024 abstracts (500 words, 10 references, 3 figures) are due for oral and poster presentations at the Conference of Environmental Archaeology (CEA), to be held in Nitra, Slovakia on 5-7 February 2025. Further information is available at https://www.iansa.eu/cea. Papers are invited that address questions the following key areas:
• Agricultural practices - crop cultivation, fieldscapes and water management as seen from botanical, isotopic or soil data perspectives
• Animal husbandry and hunting - feeding, breeding of domesticates and hunting of wild game and their role in subsistence economies
• Exploitation of raw materials - technologies, mining, quarrying techniques and environmental impact (pollution)
• Environmental impact and sustainability - deforestation, land use, hydraulic engineering
• Trade and exchange networks - resource distribution of artefacts and isotopic analyses of pottery, metals and food remains and food residues

New Materialism

On 1 December 2024 abstracts (200 words) are due for lectures or posters at a conference entitled Die Dinge einmal anders betrachten – Neuer Materialismus in der Archäologie, to be held by the AG Theorien in der Archäologie (TidA) in Mainz, Germany on 20-21 March 2025. Further information is available at https://www.agtida.de/cfp-die-dinge-einmal-anders-betrachten-neuer-materialismus-in-der-archaeologie/. Contributions related to the New Materialism are invited, especially but not limited to topics that concentrate on post-humanist narratives, assemblages, archaeological categories, entangled bodies, architecture, art or influences of New Materialism on archaeological records, excavations, contexts and features.

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Future Lectures and Conferences

Mycenaean Seminars

The University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of Classical Studies has announced the following schedule of Mycenaean Seminars for Autumn 2024, 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 https://ics.sas.ac.uk/search-events.
9 October 2024: L. Ursprung Nerling, “Resistance is Futile: An emerging Cretan collective ethos as displayed through the larnax”
13 November 2024: L. Spencer, “The Middle Helladic pottery from Lerna: an overview”
12 December 2024: J. Murphy, “How the dead fuel the living: A reassessment of the Bronze Age tombs excavated by Blegen around the Palace of Nestor, Pylos”

New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium

The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium has announced the schedule of lectures for 2024-2025. All meetings will be held virtually on Zoom. Registration information, as well as abstracts for each talk, may be found online at nyabac.tumblr.com a few weeks prior to each meeting.
29 October 2024: O. Kouka, “Emerging Complexity in Prehistoric Samos and Beyond”
5 December 2024: T. Carter, “The Hill of Ariadne? The Minoan Peak Sanctuary of Stelida, Naxos”
11 February 2025: M. Oddo, “My Precious! Bronze Hoards and Other Buried Treasures of Minoan Crete”
18 March 2025: T. Van Damme, “Climatic Variability and Its Impact on Mycenaean Greece: Evidence from the North Slope of the Athenian Acropolis”
23 April 2025 (co-sponsored with the AIA NY Society): K. Kopanias, “Cyprus in Flux: Shedding Light on the 12th Century BCE through New Discoveries from Palaepaphos-Marchello, Cyprus (2021–2024)”

Sparta Live!

The Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies at the University of Nottingham has announced the schedule of Sparta Live! talks for Autumn 2024, to be held online at 5-6pm BST on MS Teams. Further information will be available at https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/csps/news-and-events/sparta-live.aspx. Lectures of interest to Nestor readers will include:
12 December 2024: M. Georgiadis, “The sacred landscape of Kythera and the peak sanctuary at Leska”

ARCH_RNT

On 3-5 October 2024 the 8th Symposium Archaeological Research & New Technologies (ARCH_RNT) will be held in Kalamata, Greece. Further information is available at https://archrnt.gr/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
C. E. Tselios, “Mechanical properties and function of Mycenaean bronze Type A swords: From analytical data to iconography”
N. Nerantzis and D. Matsas, “Samothracian Middle Bronze Age Metallurgy: The evidence from Mikro Vouni”
V. Orfanou, B. O’Neill, D. Müller, B. Molloy, and L. Burghardt, “Towards a better understanding of prehistoric crucible metallurgy based on field of expreiments”
M. Kylafi, V. V. Panagiotidis, A. Kazolias, A. Karamitrou, E. Militsi, A. Stampolidis, and G. Tsokas, “Fusion of Remote Sensing data for ancient landscape interpretation: The Pylos Geoarchaeology Project”
S. Menelaou, “Crafting choices for pottery-making in prehistoric Thermi-Lesbos, Greece: Manufacturing strategies and connectivity”
A. Vafiadou, N. Laskaris, and G. S. Polymeris, “Obsidian hydration and luminescence (TL/OSL/IRSL) ages of archaeological interest from Greece and Turkey: an obvious hiatus within the 4th millennium BC”
S. Katsarou, A. Aidonis, C. Kakasa, E. Ganiatsou, A. Souleles, L. Winkelbach, J. Blocher, J. Burger, and C. Papageorgopoulou, “The Late Bronze Age population of the cave of Lakes, Peloponnese: An anthropological, palaeogenetic and palaeodietary study”
C. Kakasa, A. Aidonis, E. Ganiatsou, P. Bantavanou, V. Saripanidi, A. Chrysostomou, P. Chrysostomou, and C. Papageorgopoulou, “Archontiko during the Iron Age and the Early Archaic Period: Daily life, health and diet”
B. Semiz, M. Kibaroğlu, and F. Dedeoglu-Konakci, “Neolithic pottery from Ekşi Höyük in the Upper Menderes Basin in Western Anatolia: An archaeometric investigation of raw material sourcing and manufacturing processes”
K. Theodorakopoulou, M. Ghilardi, C. D. Athanassas, and C. Delhon, “Radiocarbon dating of a hearth layer beneath the Minoan eruption deposits at Akrotiri, Santorini”
L. A. Angelopoulou, M. Kouri, and V. V. Panagiotidis, “Mystery of sandy Pylos: Crafting an immersive escape room adventure in a web-based game around Voidokoilia”
A. Oikonomou and M Kaparou, “Degraded Mycenaean vitreous artifacts safe taxonomy: A handbook”
D. C. M. Brown, “Assessing artefact diversity in mortuary contexts of the Greek mainland during the Late Bronze Age Aegean”

The Connected Past

On 3-6 October 2024 a conference entitled The Connected Past: Religious Networks in Antiquity will be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, with an optional network science workshop on 2-3 October. Further information is available at https://phh-connected-past-2024.sites.olt.ubc.ca/conference-info/program/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. A. Keyser, “The Role of Rhyta in Mycenaean Networks of Ritual Practice and Power”
E. Bentley and S. A. Cox, “Protection for the Ladies: Diffusion of Egyptian Bes and Taweret to Minoan Beset and Genii during the Bronze Age”
K. Mallinson and M. Harder, “Computational Approaches to Minoan Peak Sanctuaries Outside of Crete”

FoMArc2

On 4-5 October 2024 the 2nd Graduate Forum for Mediterranean Archaeology (FoMArc) will be held on Zoom by the Archaeological Research Unit (ARU) of the University of Cyprus. Further information is available at https://www.ucy.ac.cy/fomarc/#:~:text=FoMArc%2C%20as%20a%20student%20initiative,focusing%20on%20the%20Mediterranean%20region. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
J. Webb, “Metal artefacts and artefact production in Early and Middle Bronze Age Cyprus”
A. Dybkjaer, “Minoan seal analysis: exploring the opportunities of GIS and network models”
E. Grabar, “Revisiting the bronze artifacts excavated by the French Expedition at Enkomi”
M. Mertens, “Exploring diet through the lens of zooarchaeology: The case of the Late Bronze Age site of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus”
N. Köknar, “Cultural Landscape and Connectivity of the Coastal and Inland Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age”
P. De Weirdt, “Lost in Time, Bound by Space — Tracing the Diachronic Evolution and Spatial Configuration of the Archaeological Hinterland surrounding the Late Bronze Age site complex of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus”

YRA 2024

On 15-19 October 2024 the 7th workshop Young Researchers in Archaeometry (YRA 2024) will be held at the Cyprus Institute, in Nicosia, Cyprus. Further information is available at https://yrarch.github.io/current.html. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
C. Theotokatou, “Breaking into the ‘Black Box’: The contribution of ethnographic work in decoding Late Cypriot household structures”
A. Cercone, “A Dangerous Tradition: Asbestos-tempered Pottery in Prehistoric and Modern Eskişehir, Türkiye”
S. Gkinoudis and E. Margaritis, “Ongoing Archaeobotanical Research in Mycenaean Iklaina, Messenia, Greece”
G. Kasapidou, “Phytolith analysis for the investigation of plant exploitation in Bronze Age Cyprus”
P. Koullouros, “Fuelling Ancient Idalion: Charcoal Analysis and Insights into 1st Millennium BCE Cyprus”
E. Margaritis and M. Boyd: Keynote
M. Giannakopoulou, “Silver-lead and copper production on Early Bronze Age southern Sifnos: an overview”
K. Regnier, “The ‘production’ of Minoan red serpentinite”
N. C. Andriopoulou, G. C. Polymeris, K. C. Stamoulis, M. Schöbel, G. E. Christidis, S. Papadakis, A. Novikova, and N. Papadopoulos, “Deciphering Past Coastal Environments: Beachrock Characterisation and Luminescence Dating in SE Lasithi, Crete, Greece”

MEDITARCH

On 18 October 2024 the 1st MEDITARCH Postgraduate Conference in Greek and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology will be held at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in hybrid format. Further information is available at https://meditarch.arch.uoa.gr/activities/meditarch_postgraduate_conference/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
P. García Alcalde, “Early Iron Age deathscapes: a case study of the cemeteries at Lefkandi”
E. Gourgouleti, “Fields of transformation: The case of the funerary field of Knossos during the Late Minoan IIB – IIIA transition”
C. Theotokatou, “New insight into the spatial arrangement and social significance of Late Cypriot households: the application of Space Syntax analysis”
A. Pefani, “Wall-paintings in their architectural environment: unravelling sociopolitical strategies through sensorial impact at the palace of Pylos”
G. Tasopoulos, “The Minoan channel kiln: A technological innovation of the late bronze age in Crete”
P. Peppe, “Maritime Trade and Urban Dynamics: The Role of Perge, Phaselis, and Aspendos in Shaping Interregional Networks from the LBA to the EIA”
M.-P. Kevork, “Τhe gender of Cycladic figurines”

Κέα-Κύθνος ΙΙ

On 20-24 October 2024 an international conference entitled Κέα-Κύθνος ΙΙ: Ιστορία και Αρχαιολογία will be held on Kythnos and Kea. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
Γ. Μπασιάκος, Ε. Φιλιππάκη, and Μ. Γεωργακοπούλου†, “Πρώιμες αιγαιακές μεταλλουργικές κάμινοι στην Κύθνο και σε άλλες θέσεις: Παλαιοτεχνολογικές συσχετίσεις”
Γ. Γαβαλάς, “Μετάλλων τόποι στις Δυτικές Κυκλάδες Κύθνος, Σέριφος, Σίφνος. Από την επιστημονική έρευνα στην δημιουργία βιώσιμων δράσεων για την ανάδειξη των αρχαίων και νεότερων μεταλλείων”
J. M. A. Murphy, N. Abell, S. LaFayette Hogue, M. Nazou, C. Papoulia, M. Georgakopoulou†, and J. R. Baxley Craig, “Insular Networks and Early Kea: Insights from the Kea Archaeological Research Survey”
Μ. Μαρθάρη, “Παναγία Αντιλαλούσα Γυάρου και Καρθαία Κέας στη Μέση Εποχή του Χαλκού: Βίοι Παράληλλοι”
D. M. Crego, N. Abell, and J. C. Overbeck, “Evidence for ritual at Ayia Irini in period IV”
A. Belza, “Refining Late Cycladic II: Period VII at Ayia Irini, Kea”
E. Gorogianni and R. D. Fitzsimons, “Revisiting the Northeast Bastion: Architecture, Ceramics, and Socio-Economic Dynamics in Late Bronze Age Ayia Irini”
N. Abell, “A preliminary report on ancient pot-mending practices at Ayia Irini, Kea”
J. R. Baxley Craig, “The Ground Stone Edge Tools from Kephala and Ayia Irini, Kea”
C. R. Hershenson and R. D. Fitzsimons, Early LBA Domestic Architecture at Ayia Irini: Notes and Observations”
N. Mourtzas and E. Kolaiti, “Human adaptation to the Late Holocene relative sea-level changes along the coast of Keos Island (NW Cyclades, Greece)”

2024 World Neolithic Congress

On 4-8 November 2024 the 2024 World Neolithic Congress will be held in Sanliurfa, Türkiye. Further information is available at https://www.worldneolithiccongress.org/sessions.aspx. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
J.-D. Vigne and T. Cucchi, “Domestication of insular ungulates during the Cyprus-PPNB”
A. Mari and A. Tiliakou, “Treating the dead, choosing the bone(s?): performing Neolithic secondary burials in the Cave of Pan at Marathon, Attica, Greece”
R. Haddad, “The False Pretense of Permanence: Early Neolithic Sedentism Seen from Cyprus”
L. Webster and B. Horejs, “Setting the absolute chronology of Neolithic Çukuriçi Höyük, western Anatolia”
R. Asal, M. A. Polat, S. Çölmekçi, E. Öncü, H. Yıldırım, and Y. Yılmaz, “An Old Village in The Historical Peninsula: Neolithic Settlement of Yenikapi Istanbul/Turkey”
N. Nikolova, A. Tsurev, and K. Bacvarov, “The Early Neolithic of the Middle Maritsa Valley”
M. Grebska-Kulow, “The Early Neolithic in South-west Bulgaria; causes and consequences”
A. Hafner, A. Bogaard Amy, K. Kotsakis, and W. Tinner, “Submerged settlements of the South: early farmers between the Adriatic and the Aegean”
R. Ruka and E. Andoni, “Unwinding the Late Mesolithic-Early Neolithic transition in Albania”
A. Wasse and J. Clarke, “Choice in the Face of Change. How ‘Neolithic’ Were Cyprus and the Greater Syrian Desert in the 7th and 6th Millennia BC?”
J.-D. Vigne, F. Briois, and J. Guilaine, “The Southwest Asian Neolithic transition scrutinized from the island of Cyprus”
R. Özbal, A. Breu Barcons, H. Özbal, L. Thissen, A. T. Bıyık, and F. Gerritsen, “The Emergence and Evolution of Dairying in Neolithic Northwest Anatolia: Insights from Barcın Höyük”
A. Fassoulas, “Giving Meaning to the Technique: The Socio-Cultural Dimension of Figurine-Making in Neolithic Aegean”
S. Katsarou and A. Sampson, “Human Representations and Farming Economy. Insights from the Advanced Farming Stage in the Aegean”
A. Nafplioti and I. Serpetsidaki, “The Neolithic cemetery at Katsambas (near Knossos) on Crete in Greece: Shedding light onto complex mortuary practices”
A. Papathanasiou, “Ritual intensification and ancestral memory in Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave of Southern Greece”
S. Katsarou, F. Georgiadis, A. Papathanasiou, A. Siros, and A. Darlas, “Burials and Caves: The Spiritual Aspect of Their Relationship”
A. Aydoğan, M. Somel, and Y. S. Erdal, “Association with Mesolithic-Related Ancestry or Demic Diffusion in Neolithic Northwest Anatolia”
C. G. Santiago-Marrero, M. Lymperaki, E. Vika, D. Urem-Kotsou, S. Kotsos, and J. J. García-Granero, “Insight into Neolithic cuisine: a holistic approach for investigating charred food crust and absorbed residues from cooking vessels from Neolithic Stavroupoli (northern Greece)”
S. Souvatzi, “Ring-Shaped Settlements in Neolithic Greece and Turkey: Social Significance and Diverse Habitation”
S. Cveček, S. Stefanović, Y. S. Erdal, R. Özbal, and F. Gerritsen, “Infant Burials Associated with Houses in Central Balkans and Western Anatolia during Neolithic: Similarities, Differences, and Exceptions”
J. Chapman and B. Gaydarska, “Exotics: kick‐starting the earliest hunter‐gatherer ‐ farmer networks in Anatolia, the Aegean and the Balkans”
D. Sarı, “Short‐term Hilltop and Cave Settlements during the Neolithic Period: The Case of Keçiçayırı and Gedikkaya Sites”
N. Kolankaya‐Bostancı and E. Fidan, “Bahçelievler Neolithic Chipped Stone Assemblage: Local Tradition and Interregional Contacts”
I. Gatsov and P. Nedelcheva, “Lithic Technologies and the Raw Material Supply as an Adaptive Strategy in the Settlement Patterns of Marmara Sea Region During 7‐6 mill BC”
Ş. Aydıngün, “Istanbul Lagoons Neolithic Finds”
F. Dedeoğlu, “Looking the Aegean from Inner Southwest Anatolia: Ekşi Höyük and its relations and interactions”
H Taşkıran, “A Late Neolithic Cave Settlement in Southwest Anatolia: Suluin”
A. Beyazıt, “The Origin of Paint Decorated Pottery from the Neolithic Period in the Burdur‐Antalya Region”
A. Arslan, “Unveiling Community Identities: Tracing Clay Object Makers via Ancient Fingerprints”
Z. Derin, “Yeşilova Höyük and the Neolithic ‘Coastal Aegean Culture’”
A. İ. Aytek, A. Y. Yavuz, and E. Tarhan, “Lion King and the others: Preliminary results of faunal analysis of Yeşilova Höyük, İzmir”.
A. Ozan and H. Sağlamtimur, “An overview of the Neolithisation of Western Anatolia: What does the Ege Gübre settlement tell us about the Neolithisation of the coastal Aegean?”
A. Cura, “Spread of Round Shaped Objects identified as Sling Missiles in the Aegean during the Neolithic Period”
S. V. Todaro, “Red Ochre and Seafaring? Some implications for connectivity in the southern Aegean during the Neolithic”
A. Minelli and M. R. Belgiorno, “The lithic industry of the archaeological site of Pyrgos Mavroraki: new data for the reconstruction of the human presence on the island of Cyprus”
A. H. Simmons, “The Neolithic on Water: Neolithic Seafarers and the Colonization of Cyprus”
C. Marangou, “Neolithic Symbolic Imagery: Reality and Fiction, Memories or Illusions in a Material World”
V. G. Koutrafouri, “Rituals and Symbolic Systems in Early Prehistoric Cyprus: A Transdisciplinary Analysis of Social Cohesion and Transformation”
K. Bacvarov, N. Nikolova, G. Katsarov, A. Tsurev, and K. McSweeney, “Regional ideologies vs local expressions: the Early Neolithic burial evidence from Nova Nadezhda in Upper Thrace”
Ö. Çevik and Mine Uçmazoğlu, “Common and Rarer Polished Stone Tools from Neolithic Ulucak”
T. Strasser, “Neolithic Stone Axes from Crete and their Implications for the Wider Aegean”
L. Dietrich, B. Horejs, and M. Brandl, “Greenstone chisel-like adzes for carpentry were components of the Neolithic Package in Anatolia and the Balkans”
H. Tekin, “Reflection of the Turkish Eastern Mediterranean's Late Neolithic Lifestyle on Pottery: The Case of Domuztepe”
Ç. Atakuman, D. Erdem, and B. Erdoğu, “Pits, Pots and Bodies at Uğurlu Höyük: The Case of the Poly-Pod Box Pottery”
D. Koptekin, A. Aydoğan, N. E. Altınışık, K. B. Vural, D. D. Kazancı, C. Karamurat, A. Doğu, D. Kaptan, H. C. Gemici, G. Umurtak, E. Fidan, Ö. Çevik, B. Erdoğu, T. Korkut, C. J. Knüsel, S. D. Haddow, E. Özdoğan, M. Özdoğan, F. Gerritsen, R. Özbal, U. O. Usanmaz, Y. C. Derici, M. Uçmazoğlu, A. Götherström, Ç. Atakuman, Y. S. Erdal, A.‐S. Malaspinas, F. Özer, and M. Somel, “Unravelling Cultural and Genetic Interactions during the Aegean Neolithization”
L. Bonga, “Island Neolithic of the Aegean Sea”
M. Boyd, D. Smith, J. Hilditch, E. Margaritis, J. Wright, G. Gavalas, D. Athanasoulis, M. Marthari, K. Dellaporta, and C. Renfrew, “Integrated approaches to emerging later Neolithic Islandscapes in the Cyclades”
P. Tomkins, “Regional diversity in the adoption of pottery in the Aegean during the late seventh millennium BC. A new view from Knossos, Crete”
L. Karimali and S. Papadopoulou, “Neolithic obsidian Melian network in Greece: patterns of circulation and technical traits”
T. Carter, “Building Castles on Sand: Current Models on the Impact of Insular Aegean Hunter‐Gatherer Populations on Neolithisation Processes”
D. Guilbeau, “The relations between Aegean, Anatolia, Balkans between the 7th and the 5th millennium through the analysis of the chipped stone industry of Uğurlu (Gökçeada/Imbros Island)”
E. Özdoğan, “Early Neolithic in the Northern Aegean and Eastern Thrace: Cultural Contexts and Regional Connections”
H. Balcı, “An Archaeobotanical Perspective to the Neolithization of North Aegean through Hoca Çeşme Neolithic Site”
K. Trantalidou, “Before surplus production: foragers and food producers in inland and island caves of the Southern Balkan‐Aegean area”
A. Reingruber and G. Toufexis, “Flat sites of the late 7th and early 6th millennium BC in Thessaly, Central Greece (and beyond)”
G. Naumov and A. Reingruber, “Dating the Early Neolithic of Pelagonia: closing a chronological gap in Balkan prehistory”
J.‐P. Demoule, “Kovačevo and the oldest Neolithic villages in the Balkans”
S. Tsaneva, V. Nikolov, G. Samichkova, and V. Petrova, “Late Neolithic pit sanctuaries at Maritsa River Bend in Northern Thrace”
E. Yurtdaş, “Pottery Unity in Diversity: Red on White Ware and Neolithic Cultural Synthesis in Cyprus”
B. Kızılduman, E. Doğru, B. Semiz, and H. İcil, “Neolithic Pottery in the Karpaz Peninsula: Insights into Production Techniques and Cultural Practices”
M. Kiessel and E. Tangül, “A New Neolithic Settlement on Cyprus? Recent Discoveries at Aphendrika, on the North-Eastern Coast of the Karpas Peninsula”
D. Pullen, A. Papathanasiou, M. Galaty, and W. Parkinson, “Monumentality and Memory in Death at Ksagounaki (Alepotrypa Cave), Greece”
A. McCarthy, “Burying Memories: a Ritual Pit Complex at Neolithic Prasteio Mesorotsos, Cyprus”
Y. Yılmaz, “Archaeotanatological Analysis of the Graves found at Pendik Höyük in İstanbul”
H. Öniz, “A View at Sunken Prehistoric Settlements off the Turkish Coast”
O. Kaycı, “Potential prehistoric island communities in Cilicia to the north of the Eastern Mediterranean”
M. Brunner, A. Anastasi, K. Anastasi, A. Maczkowski, M. Bolliger, M. Hinz, S. Szidat, I. Gjipali, and A. Hafner, “Lake Maliq revisited: Fresh perspectives on Neolithic submerged settlements at former Lake Maliq, Albania”
M. Hinz, A. Anastasi, M. Brunner, K. Anastasi, M. Yermorkhin, I. Gjipali, and A. Hafner, “Discovering the wooden pillars of the Neolithic settlement: the waterlogged site Lin 3, Albania”
G. Karahan and K. Özçelik, “Epipaleolithic Layers of Karain B (Mediterranean Region, Turkey)”
Ç. Al. Algül, O. Kaycı, S. Balcı, A. Gopher, D. Mouralis, H. Tümer, and D. Silibolatlaz, “Epipalaeolithic Hunter-Gatherers of the Central Taurus: Eşek Deresi Cave (East Mediterranean/Türkiye)”
J.-D. Vigne, F. Briois, T. Cucchi, R. Hadad, N. Mazzucco, P. Mylona, M. Rousou, and A. Zazzo, “New light about the Epipaleolithic in Cyprus: the settlement of Pakhtomena”
Y. Aydın and E. Erbil, “Late Epipaleolithic Hunter-Gatherers of Northwestern Anatolia: Ballık Cave, İzmir/Turkey”
D. Sarı, “Gedikkaya Cave in North-western Türkiye: the Epipalaeolithic layer that connected to ritual activity”
Ç. Atakuman, C. Karamurat, H. C. Gemici, D. Koptekin, M. Somel, “Patterns of the Neolithization in the Aegean: A synthesis of Material Culture and a-DNA Evidence”
L. Bonga, “Say ‘Cheese’? Rim-perforated pans and basins of the Aegean Neolithic”

: 30 September 2024