Society and Writing in Ancient Cyprus
All Souls College, Oxford has announced the schedule of the Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2014: Society and Writing in Ancient Cyprus by P. Steele. Further information is available at http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/userfiles/file/Lectures/Trinity/EP2014.pdf.
7 May: "The Advent of Literacy on Cyprus"
8 May: "Scripts and Languages at Early Iron Age Palaepaphos"
9 May: "'Understanding' Undeciphered Scripts and Unidentified Languages"
14 May: "Visible Language and Ancient Cypriot Identities"
15 May: "Cypriot Writing at Home and Abroad"
SOMA 2014
On 24-26 April 2014 the 18th Annual Symposium On Mediterranean Archaeology: Management of Cultural Heritage in the Coastal Zone (SOMA 2014) will be held in Wrocław, Poland. Further information is available at http://www.arch.pan.wroc.pl/index.php?lang=pl&dzial=artykuly&k=&p=2013_09_30_18th_symposium_on_mediterranean_archaeology_soma_2014_wroclaw_poland or
http://www.genama.info/soma/2014/HOME.html. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. S. Hayter, "Reading Between the Fault Lines: Reassessing the MM IIIA Destruction Layers at Knossos"
B. Lis, "Mobility of Potters in the Aegean: Combining Ethnographic and Archaeological Evidence"
A. Türker, "Suluca Karahöyük: a Commercial Context in Central Cappadocia in light of Three Depas Amphikypellon and a Foot Shaped Stamp Seal"
9ICAANE
On 9-13 June 2014 the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (9ICAANE) will be held at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Further information is available at http://9icaane.unibas.ch. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Ahrens and E. Kozal, "The Turkish-Swiss Excavations at Sirkeli Höyük (Eastern Cilicia) 2011-2013: Material Culture, Settlement Structure, Chronology and Interregional Connections"
E. Belcher and K. Croucher, "Exchanges of Identity in Prehistoric Anatolian Figurines"
B. Bellucci, "Travelling Monsters: The Representation of Fantastic Creatures in Late Bronze Age Glyptic"