On 27-28 February 2015 a workshop entitled Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: the Potential of Digital Archaeology will be held in London. Further information is available at http://uwm.edu/mobilizing-the-past/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
J. Wallrodt, "Why Paperless?: Digital Technology and Archaeology"
J. M. Gordon, K. Koo, M. Toumazou, D. Counts, and E. Walcek Averett, "Technology and Teaching at the Athienou Archaeological Project, Cyprus"
On 7-9 January 2015 the 2015 Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA 2015) was held in London. Further information is available at http://banealcane.org/banea/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:
I. Jacobsson, "What do the Cypro-PPN sites tell us about the nature of the M-/L-PPNB transition?"
D. Bolger, "Fragmented identities: social and material transformations in 3rd millennium BC Cyprus"
F. Chelazzi, "Living by the rivers: social networks and settlement patterns in southwestern Cyprus during the second millennium BC"
Y. Asscher et al., "A slow social integration of the Philistines in the southern Levant is supported by a new radiocarbon based chronology"
K. Wright, "Craft production, food preparation and household differentiation Çatalhöyük East and other Neolithic sites in the Near East"
B. Kızılduman, "Interrelations between the Karpaz peninsula and the Levant during the Bronze Age"
The December 2014 (41.9) issue of Nestor is now available as a free download.
On 15 December 2014 abstracts (500 words minimum) are due for a two-day international conference entitled First Textiles. The Beginnings of Textile Manufacture in Europe and the Mediterranean, to be held on 7-8 May 2015 at the National Museum of Denmark (http://natmus.dk/en/) and the Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen (http://ctr.hum.ku.dk/) in Copenhagen, with a possible visit the Land of Legends and its experimental archaeological center at Lejre (http://www.sagnlandet.dk/English.425.0.html) on 9 May. Abstracts should be sent to the organizers at
The most ancient preserved textiles: archaeological material; microscopic analyses; raw materials (plant and animal fibres, skins, and furs); provenience of the fibres; manufacture of fibres and textiles; woven and unwoven textiles
Raw materials: use of plant and animal fibres, skins, and furs; domestication of flax; use of hairy and woolly wool; introduction and spread of woolly sheep wool and 'the textile revolution'
Scientific methods of analysing ancient textiles and recognising the provenience of fibres: strontium and isotope tracing; ancient DNA; protein analysis
On 15 December 2014 new member-organized session proposals and new workshop proposals are due for the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meetings (ASOR 2015), to be held in Atlanta, GA from 18-21 November 2015. From 5 January to 15 February 2015 individual paper submissions will be open; from 5 January to 1 August poster submissions will be open. Further information, including rules for participation, format of and procedure for submitting abstracts, and all necessary forms are available at http://www.asor.org.
On 31 January 2015 paper abstracts are due for the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG-US) 2015: Movement, to be held on 22-24 May 2015 at the New York University. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Theoretical-Archaeology-Group-USA/114634891930947, or contact Dr. Pam Crabtree at
On 28 February 2015 abstracts (300-400 words) are due for the 10th International Symposium on Knappable Materials: 'On the Rocks', to be held on 8-10 September 2015 at the University of Barcelona. Proposals are also welcome for themed sessions, round table discussions or workshops, which may be specific to methodology, regional research, or any other theme. The symposium will focus on two major themes: The chaîne opératoire of knapped stone artefacts, and auxilliary sciences related to lithics (in particular microcrystaline quartz). Further information is available at http://www.ub.edu/cherts-symp2015/.
On 28 February 2015 full peer-reviewed papers (6 pages maximum) or extended abstracts (500-1000 words) are due for the 25th CIPA International Symposium 2015, to be held on 31 August – 5 September 2015 in Taipei, Taiwan. Further information is available at http://www.cipa2015.org/. The themes of the symposium will be:
Data Acquisition and Recording Techniques
Laser scanning and 3D imaging
Mobile Mapping Applications