The September 2014 (41.6) issue of Nestor is now available as a free download.
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INSTAP 2015
On 1 November 2014 applications are due to the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) for 2015 New or Renewal Research Grants, the Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete (SCEC) Librarian Fellowship, Six-Week Research Grants at INSTAP SCEC, and the Petrography Internship at INSTAP SCEC. On 31 March 2015 applications are due for the 2015 Richard Seager Doctoral Fellowship at INSTAP SCEC; applications for Publication Team Support and Publication Subventions have no specific due dates. Further information and applications are available at http://www.aegeanprehistory.net/; applications can be submitted via e-mail as MS WORD documents or fillable PDF forms.
Mediterranean Archaeological Trust
On 31 January 2015 applications for grants (not normally exceeding £2,000) to assist with the publication, excluding subventions, of archaeological excavation or fieldwork in the Mediterranean world, with possible priority to Bronze Age sites, are due to the Mediterranean Archaeological Trust. The application form and further information are available at https://sites.google.com/site/medarchtrust/grants; completed applications are to be sent to John Bennet at
19th Neolithic Seminar
On 1 September 2014 abstracts (150-200 words, including name, institution, and the title of the paper) are due for the 19th Neolithic Seminar. Pottery and food: dietary practices in prehistory, to be held from 7-8 November 2014 at the Department of Archaeology, Ljubljana University, Ljubljana, Slovenia. All previous Neolithic Seminar proceedings are available in the periodical Documenta Prehistorica XXI-XXXIX. Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to
CAA 2015
On 30 September 2014 proposals for sessions (500 words maximum, including title, affiliations, and key words) are due for the 43rd Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2015): Keep the Revolution Going, to be held on 30 March-3 April 2015 in Siena, exploring topics to showcase ground-breaking technologies and best practice from various archaeological and computer science disciplines. Further information is available at https://caaconference.org/ocs/index.php?conference=caa&schedConf=caa2015. Themes will include:
Field and laboratory data recording
Data modelling, management and integration
Linked data and the semantic web
Data analysis and visualisation
3D modelling, visualization, thinking, interpretation and simulations
Spatio-temporal modelling, GIS and remote sensing
Users and interfaces: education, museums and multimedia
Theoretical issues and the relation of CAA with the Digital Humanities
Digital Cities, cultural heritage interpretation and modelling the past
In Poseidons Realm XX
On 31 October 2014 abstracts (250 words maximum) are due for the conference In Poseidons Realm XX: Land unter!, to be held on 16-22 March 2015 at the Germanic National Museum at Nuremberg and the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Papers are invited on flood control by digging sewers, building dikes and embankments or by other methods; conference papers will be published in Skyllis. Conference languages will be German and English. Further information is available at http://www.deguwa.org/.
Contacts, Migrations and Climate Change
On 30 November 2014 abstracts are due for the conference Contacts, Migrations and Climate Change: Conference in Honour of Prof. Dr. Jan Bouzek, to be held on 19-23 May 2015 in Prague. Abstracts (300 words maximum, in MS Word or Open Office format) for 20-minute presentations or for posters (portrait, maximum 100 x 70 cm) should be sent to
Interconnections in Bronze and Early Iron Age Europe
Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece
Celts on the Move
The Black Sea Area
Thrace and its Rulers
Roman Provinces
EAA2014
On 10-14 September 2014 the 20th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA2014) will be held in Istanbul, Turkey. Further information is available https://www.eaa2014istanbul.org/site. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
M. Gurova "Lithic Studies: An Alternative Approach to Neolithization?"
E. Marinova, "Archaeobotanical Evidence on the Neolithisation of Bulgaria in the Context of the Balkans and Anatolia"
T. Dzhanfezova, "Shaping the Future of Painting: The Early Neolithic Pottery from Dzhulyunitsa, Central North Bulgaria"
On 13 September 2014 a symposium entitled Saluting Ellen N. Davis: a Memorial Symposium will be held by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, 47-49 East 65th Street, New York City (between Park and Madison Avenues). R.S.V.P. by September 5 to
P. P. Betancourt, J. D. Muhly, and S. C. Ferrence, "Cycladic Connections in the Metallurgy from the Petras Cemetery in Eastern Crete"
G. Kopcke, "Reading Ellen's 'The Gold of the Shaft Graves: the Transylvanian Connection' - Some Thoughts"
M. H. Wiener, "Helladic Pairs of Cups"