On 30 September 2024 abstracts (approximately 300 words) and personal details (title, full name, affiliation, email address) are due for an Early Career Researchers Conference entitled Change and power entanglements: Investigating a reciprocal relation in the Bronze Age Aegean, to be held on 7-9 March 2025 in Heidelberg. Abstracts should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Further information is available at https://www.academia.edu/121726391/Change_and_Power_Entanglements_Investigating_a_reciprocal_relation_in_the_Bronze_Age_Aegean. Contributions will be welcomed on the following themes/axes: • Continuities and discontinuities: development of power versus abrupt changes • Nurturing power: changes in the economy, trade and social networks, (re)sources, settlements patterns, administration • Holding on to power: resilience of power institutions through periods of crisis • Nature as a driving factor for change: topographical constants, climate change, geographic isolation, tectonic activity • Showcasing power: changes in iconography, architecture, performance, material culture, ceremonial and social practices • Changes in mnemonic strategies: past as catalyst and a resource
On 12-17 August 2024 the 22nd ICAZ Fish Remains Working Group (FRWG 2024) will be held in Toronto, Canada. Further information is available at https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/anthropology/research/ontario-archaeology-utm/icaz-frwg-2024-toronto. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include: T. Theodoropoulou, “Going for small catches in the Mediterranean Early Neolithic? The case of Sidari-Corfu (Greece) and the wider Mesolithic–Early Neolithic fishing strategies of the last hunter-gatherers and early farmerherders in the Mediterranean”
INSCRIBE at the Roots of Writing
On 11-13 September 2024 the final conference of the ERC-funded INSCRIBE Invention of Scripts and their Beginnings project, entitled INSCRIBE at the Roots of Writing, will be held in hybrid format in Bologna. Further information and registration forms for both in-person and online participation are available at https://site.unibo.it/inscribe/en/inscribe-at-the-roots-of-writing. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include: B. Montecchi, “The Origins of Writing in Bronze Age Crete and the Conundrum of Documents in Perishable Materials” J. Bennet, “‘A Frivolous Digression’ – Did the Decipherment of Linear B Transform the Aegean Late Bronze Age? M. Corazza, “Investigating the Signs of Cypro-Minoan with Deep Learning”
WAVE
On 19-22 September 2024 a Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) conference entitled Writing as Visual Experience (WAVE) will be held in Cambridge. Further information is available from https://viewsproject.wordpress.com/writing-as-visual-experience/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include: S. Ferrara, “How writing anchors images: cultural exaptation and evolution” S. Finlayson, “Some thoughts on directionality in Aegean Bronze Age writing”
PeBA 2024
On 25-28 September 2024 the 4th Perspectives on Balkan Archaeology Conference: The Things of Life (PeBA 2024) will be held in Varna, Bulgaria. Further information is available at https://pebasite.wordpress.com/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include: R. Kurti, “Some Consideration on the Early Iron Objects from Iron Age Albania” T. Valchev, “Late Bronze Age Daggers from the Lower and Middle Course of the Tundzha River, Bulgaria – Imports and Local Imitation” M. Šmolková, “Socioeconomy of Early Iron Age Hilltop Sites in the Context of Ohrid Lake Area (Dolno Lakocherej – a case study)” J. Fries-Knoblach and M. Leppek, “Late Bronze Age Bresto (South-Western Bulgaria) - multiple resources, multi-purpose settlement?” B. Athanassov, I. Kulov, and P. W. Stockhammer, “Pots and Pits: Ritual Practices at Iron Age Bresto?” K. Çipa and S. Xhaferaj, “Economic Resources and Religious Aspects during the Bronze and Iron Age in Southwestern Albania” M. Gori, “Mobility between tangible and intangible resources. What makes the world go round?” T. Krapf, “The Things of Life: The Diffusion of Cooking Pots in the Late Bronze Age Southern Balkans” M. Gleba, H. Potrebica, and A. Pravidur, “Textile Cultures of Iron Age Southeastern Europe”
The Connected Past: Religious Networks in Antiquity
On 3-6 October 2024 the conference The Connected Past: Religious Networks in Antiquity will be held in Vancouver, BC. Further information is available at https://phh-connected-past-2024.sites.olt.ubc.ca/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include: C. Barnes and G. Braun, “Labour Input and Knowledge Networks in the Construction of Ashlar Buildings on Cyprus” E. A. Keyser, “The Role of Rhyta in Mycenaean Networks of Ritual Practice and Power” K. Mallinson and M. Harder, “Computational Approaches to Minoan Peak Sanctuaries Outside of Crete”
On 1 September 2024 abstracts (300 words maximum) are due for a symposium entitled Decoding Representations of Status in the Bronze Age Aegean: Patterns, definitions and interpretations, to be hosted online on 28-29 November 2024 by 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/news/call-for-papers-decoding-representations-of-status-in-the-bronze-age-aegean. Topics will include: • Manifestations of status on pottery • The semantics of symbols in LBA society • Display of status in graves • Rituals (religious and/or secular) and status connections • Defining status through architecture • Storage strategies and their relation to status • Possession of metals and status • Indications of status in the osteoarchaeological and archaeobotanical archaeological data • Theoretical approaches on status
Scapecon 7
On 1 September 2024 abstracts (c. 250 words) are due from early career scholars (Post-doc, PhD, MA) for the 7th edition of ScapeCon, Techniques Make Perfect: Exploring Crafts and Practices in Aegean Prehistoric Societies (Scapecon 7), to be held on 28-29 March 2025 at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris. Further information is available at https://scapecon7.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/2. The three main axes for discussion around techniques in Aegean Prehistory as they are currently studied will be: • Acquisition and processing of raw materials • Production processes • Use and consumption techniques
Anatolian Chalcolithic Workshop
On 15 September 2024 abstracts (c. 200 words) are due for the first meeting of the new initiative of the Anatolian Chalcolithic Workshop, to be held online on 10 January 2025. Further information is available at https://www.nit-istanbul.org/projects/anatolian-chalcolithic-workshop. The geographical and temporal focus of this first meeting will be on Central-South-Eastern Anatolia (the region between Cilicia in the West, the Euphrates in the East, Cappadocia in the North, and Hatay in the South) during the sixth, fifth and first half of the fourth millennium. Abstracts are invited on new and ongoing research on one or more of the following themes: • Material cultures and cultural systems • Chronologies and periodization • Technologies and productions • Landscapes and settlement patterns • Subsistence and economies
In Poseidon’s Realm XXX
On 30 October 2024 abstracts (250 words plus 2 figures) are due for the anniversary meeting 2025 of the DEGUWA - German Society for the Promotion of Underwater Archaeology e.V. In Poseidon’s Realm XXX: Shipping | Images, to be held on 8-13 April 2025 in Würzburg. Further information is available at https://www.ch-antiquitas.ch/fileadmin/redaktion_antiquitas/dokumente/News_Call_for_papers/2025_Wuerzburg_IPR_XXX_Cfp.pdf. Abstracts should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Topics will include: • Ancient depictions of ships or shipping / works of art on ships and ship models • The transportation of works of art, as illuminated above all by wreck finds (e.g. Mahdia/Tunisia and Antikythera/Greece) • (Digital) images and reconstructions of pre-modern ships, shipping routes and transportation logistics • Ancient and modern models and replicas of watercrafts
On 4-7 July 2024 a series of cultural events entitled Χώμα Νερό Φωτιά. Earth Water Fire will be held at Thrapsano, Crete, sponsored by the Thrapsano Cultural Association in collaboration with British School at Athens. Further information is available from https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/earth-water-fire-2024/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0OL3Qb86w0zcl6uSolaxCZrormBWev1Y9AjkA-q31ZjdAnkBdx2j9iJOw_aem_UceGdjryZ9LIpccGXY3U0Q. Events of interest to Nestor readers will include: Κ. Χρηστάκης, “Τα κρητικά πιθάρια: οι απαρχές. Cretan pithoi: The origins” Workshop by the Κέντρο Μελέτης Νεώτερης Κεραμεικής: Θεές των όφεων: Χθόνιες θεότητες και φίδια συνθέτουν ένα εργαστήριο κεραμικής με έμπνευση από την μινωική κεραμική. Μικροί και μεγάλοι θα δημιουργήσουν κεραμικά με έμπνευση τα μινωικά αγγεία και ειδώλια. Τα έργα των συμμετεχόντων θα ψηθούν στο ξυλοκάμινο το Βράδυ της Κυριακής. Snake Goddesses: Chthonic deities and snakes at a pottery workshop drawing inspiration from Minoan ceramics. Young and old will create ceramics inspired by Minoan vases and figurines. The pieces produced will be fired in the wood kiln on Sunday evening. Ε. Γαλή, “Το κρητικό τοπίο μέσα από τις Μινωικές τοιχογραφίες. The Cretan landscape through the Minoan frescoes” Workshop by Ν. Λιάρος: Στη φωτιά του καμινιού! Ψnνουμε τα κεραμικά από το μινωικό εργαστήριο τnς Παρασκευής σε ξυλοκάμινο, ομοίωμα προϊστορικού κλιβάνου. Fired in the kiln: We fire the pottery from the Minoan workshop on Friday in a wood kiln, a copy of a prehistoric kiln.
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