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"

16 January 2015

BANEA 2015

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"

16 January 2015

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09 December 2014

First Textiles

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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Further information is available at http://ctr.hum.ku.dk/economy/first_textiles/. Papers are invited concerning the most ancient textiles and textile techniques in primarily Europe, Asia, and North Africa in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age (ca. 8th-3rd millennia BC), with priority to presentations of new material, to new analyses of older finds, and to new analytical tools, on the following topics:

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

09 December 2014

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