8th ICAANE

On
15
April
2011
proposals
for workshops
are
due
for
the 8th
International
Congress on
the
Archaeology
of
the
Ancient
Near
East
(8th ICAANE),
to
be
held
in
Warsaw,
Poland 30
April–4
May
2012.
On
15
October 2011
abstracts
(200
words
maximum)
for
papers (20
 minutes) and
posters are
due.
Further
information
is
available
at http://www.8icaane.org/. The
following
themes
of
possible
interest
to Nestor readers
have been
announced:

Townships
and
villages

Excavation
reports
and
summaries

High
and
low
—
minor
arts
for
the
elites
and
the
populace

Archaeology
of
fire

Conservation,
preservation
and
site
management

Bioarchaeology
in
the
ancient
Near
East

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NY Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium

The
program
of
the New
York
Aegean
Bronze Age
Colloquium has
been
announced for spring
 2011.
 All
lectures
will be
held at
the
Institute
of
Fine
Arts,
One
East
78th
Street
at 6:30 pm.
Please
R.S.V.P.
to
212‐992‐5803
or
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15
April
2011: P.
Pantou,
"The
Development
of
Social Ranking
and
Mycenaean
State Formation
in Thessaly"

13
May 2011:
N.
Papdimitriou,
"The
changing
faces
of
death:
Funerary
ritual
and
society
in Early
Mycenaean
Greece"

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On
3‐5
March
2011 the 15th
annual Symposium
on
Mediterranean
Archaeology (SOMA
 2011) took
 place
at
Catania
University, Sicily.
Further
information
and
the registration
form
are
available at
 http://ml.ci.uc.pt/mhonarchive/archport/msg10207.html or
from
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of
interest
to Nestor readers
included:

A.
Czeszewska,
"Wall
paintings
at
Neolithic
site
Çatalhöyük.
How
can
we
interpret prehistoric
art?"

C.
T.
Fontebrera,
"The
crocus
in
the
Aegean:
medical
and
ideological
symbolism
in
the women's
world."

D.
Sylviane,
"Reconstructing
the
Landscape
of
the
Dead.
Some Observations
on
the
Minoan Funerary
Space
in
the
Agiopharango
Valley
(South
Central
Crete)"

D.
Yılmaz,
"New Observations
on
the
Troy
I
Culture
in
the
Light
of
the
Some
Survey
Finds from
the Coastal
Troad"

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Students,  researchers,  and  professors  with  an  interest  in  the  history  and  archaeology  of the  Eastern  Mediterranean  are  invited  to  visit  the  website  of  the New  Archaeological Research  Network  for  Integrating  Approaches to  ancient  material  studies  (NARNIA)  at http://narnia-itn.eu/ for  information  about  the  range  of  fellowships  and  training courses  that  have  been  announced,  or  will  be  announced  soon,  on  the  constantly  updated project's website.

NARNIA  is  a  cross‐disciplinary  network  integrating  approaches  from  a  diverse  array  of research fields for the study of ancient materials from the Eastern Mediterranean. While the prime  objective  of  the  project  is  to  train  early  stage  researchers  that are just about to embark  on  PhD  research,  the  training  courses  and  two conferences that will be organized in the four-year duration of the project are open to all interested individuals.

05 April 2011