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Myrto Georgakopoulou Award, 2024-2025
On 21 June 2024 applications are due for the Myrto Georgakopoulou Award, 2024-2025 (€5,000), to support PhD students or early-career scholars (up to 8 years upon receiving their PhD) to undertake research on the archaeology of the Aegean and adjacent areas. Further information is available at https://www.bsa.ac.uk/awards/research-awards/the-myrto-georgakopoulou-award-2024-2025/.
Between the Indus and the Aegean in the Bronze Age
The call for abstracts (250 words maximum) has been extended for 20-minute papers are due for the Second International Workshop on Relations Between the Indus and the Aegean in the Bronze Age: Commodities and Exchange, to take place on 29-30 November 2024 at the University of Oxford. All presenters are invited to offer their papers for publication in a peer-reviewed proceeding of the workshop to be edited by Dr. Marie Nicole Pareja. Abstracts should be sent to Robert Arnott at
SIMEP 2024
On 10 May 2024 abstracts are due for an international conference entitled Social Interactions in Mediterranean Prehistory (SIMEP 2024), to be held on 21-23 October 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. This conference aims to become a meeting point for researchers investigating social interactions in the Mediterranean Basin and its neighbouring regions in Prehistory, from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age. Further information is available at https://simep2024.com/.
World Neolithic Congress 2024
On 20 May 2024 abstracts (250 words) are due for the World Neolithic Congress 2024, to be held on 4-8 November 2024 in Şanlıurfa, Türkiye. The Congress aims to foster new ways of looking and thinking about Neolithic phenomena on both local and global scales and to challenge conventional theories and terminologies on the emergence and the development of productive and newly adapted ways of living. Further information is available at https://worldneolithiccongress.org/Default.aspx.
POCA 2024
On 31 May 2024 abstracts (250 words) are due for the 21st annual Postgraduates in Cypriot Archaeology (POCA 2024) conference, to be held on 21-23 November 2024, hosted in hybrid format by Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin in memory of Professor Petros Florides. Papers on Cypriot archaeology of any period, or on related subjects, will be welcome. Abstracts should be sent to
On 1 October 2024 expressions of interest to host the 2025 annual meeting of PoCA are due; on 21 November 2024 at the beginning of the PoCA 2024 meeting after the keynote lecture PowerPoint bids will be presented, with online voting (each paper = one vote) during the 2024 meeting, and the result to be announced at the end of the meeting on the 23 November. Further information and requirements for the organising committee are available at https://pocadublin24.wordpress.com/.
SAA 2025
On 5 September 2024 submissions, both session and individual (abstracts 200 words maximum), are due for the Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting (SAA 2025), to be held on 23-27 April 2025 in Denver, CO. Further information is available at https://www.saa.org/annual-meeting.
MASt Summer 2025
On 15 September 2024 abstracts (750-850 words) are due from early career researchers (graduate students to scholars who have completed their doctoral dissertation within 4 years) for the Summer 2025 Meetings on Aegean Studies (MASt) seminar, to be held online on 27 June 2025; on 31 March 2025 short abstracts (150-300 words) and the preliminary manuscripts (5000 words maximum) will be due, and on 10 July 2025 the revised manuscripts will be due. Proposals on interdisciplinary themes such as analyses of the West and East coast of the Aegean Sea, comparisons of Bronze Age Aegean languages and cultures, Aegean legacy into the 3rd millennium CE are invited. Abstracts should be sent to
ICAS-EMME 4
On 15-18 May 2024 the 4th International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (ICAS-EMME 4) will be held at the Cyprus Institute, in Nicosia, Cyprus. Further information is available at https://icasemme.cyi.ac.cy/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Barouda et al., “Crafting Neolithic Narratives: A Comprehensive Study of Pottery and Plaster Technologies in Makri, Northern Greece”
M. Hadjigavriel et al., “Late Chalcolithic pottery from Cyprus under the Microscope: Revealing compositional and technological patterns of sociocultural significance”
C. Minos, “Hand versus wheel; old versus new? A technological and compositional characterisation of Plain White pottery making traditions at Late Bronze Age Enkomi, Cyprus”
T. Ogawa et al., “A taste from the past: cooking ware traditions in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Toumba”
M. Giobbe et al., “Science-based, integrated analytical approaches for the compositional characterization of Maritime Transport Containers from LBA and EIA Cyprus: the contribution of ComPAS (ERC Starting Grant)”
M. Kalofonou et al., “An Archaeometric Study of Plasters from the excavation site of Kition-Bamboula, Cyprus”
G. Sofianos, “Prepalatial houses and settlements: The organization of space in Minoan architecture before the Palaces”
N. Loucas et al., “A portal to the Neolithic of Cyprus: The making of Khirokitia VR”
K. Merkouris, “Marine geo-archaeological mapping using Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV). Case study: ancient submerged settlement of Grotta Naxos, Greece”
C. Henkel, “Distinguishing the sacred from the profane: Phytoliths from a Minoan Peak Sanctuary”
T. Maltas, “Farming at the dawn of Aegean urbanism: new evidence from Bronze Age Thermi, Lesbos”
C. Theotokatou, “Measuring cooking pots up: How the volume capacity of cooking pots may shed some light on the social relatedness of Late Cypriot communities”
A. Vlachopoulos, “The ritual landscape of infant burials: Initial findings and fundamental inquiries at the site of Vathy, Astypalaia”
P. Crabtree, “Food procurement in Neolithic Cappadocia, Turkey: zooarchaeological evidence from Tepecik”
A. Spyrou et al., “Integrating zooarchaeological and stable isotopic data to explore cattle management practices in PPNB-Middle Bronze Age Cyprus”
A. Hadjikoumis et al., “Sheep and goat husbandry in Cyprus through time as an environmental proxy”
L. Lucas, “Breaking bread: a review of early Cypriot prehistoric cooking traditions through the analysis of charred food remains from Bronze Age Kissonerga-Skalia”
G. Kasapidou and B. Düring, “Investigating plant-human interactions in Chalcolithic Cyprus: phytolith analysis from Chlorakas-Palloures”
S. Falconer et al., “Comparative Inferences of Bronze Age Rural Landscape Management in central Cyprus and along the Jordan Rift”
P. Koullouros et al., “Exploring Ancient Lifeways: Archaeobotanical Studies at Agios Georgios Hill, Nicosia, Cyprus”
S. Gkinoudis et al., “Feeding the Dead, Sustaining the Living: An Archaeobotanical Study of Mycenaean Eleon in Boeotia, Greece”
K. Tsirtsi et al., “Feeding the periphery: food procurement and consumption in Bronze Age Crete”
E. Margaritis and K. Tsirtsi, “Feeding the urban centers of Minoan Crete: Insights from Mochlos on ancient cuisine”
M. Boyd, E. Margaritis, and D. Athanasoulis, “Introduction to session on the extended archaeological science laboratory: embedded practice and holistic interpretation at 3rd millennium BCE Keros, Cyclades”
D. Ioannides et al., “Dhaskalio, Keros: New insights from a major Early Cycladic metalworking centre”
M. Giannakopoulou et al., “Tracing metal-rich fumes using hhXRF”
K. Tsampa et al., “Gold crafting in the Aegean: Insights from Keros”
D. Capra et al., “Initials results of use wear analysis on macro-lithic tools from Early Bronze Age Dhaskalio in the central Aegean”
G. Ludvik et al., “New Evidence for Long Distance Interaction at Keros: Carnelian Bead Analysis Using Scanning Electron Microscopy”
A. Mavromati et al., “Combined archaeobotanical investigations of fuel and subsistence procurement at EBA Dhaskalio”
G. Kazantzis et al., “Herding caprines, fishing parrotfish, collecting limpets: the life of islanders at the Early Cycladic site of Dhaskalio (2,750 - 2,250 Cal. BCE)”
R. Doonan et al., “Unlocking Landscape Histories through In-situ Geochemical Survey: A Case Study from the Keros project”
R. Campbell et al., “Building blocks between past and present: Perspectives from a holistic 3D GIS-based intra-site excavation archive”
M. Gkouma, “The (micro) life-history of an Early Cycladic workshop complex: continuity and change in floor making and replastering”
T. Carter, “Sourcing obsidian from the Early Bronze Age Maritime Sanctuary of Keros (Cyclades, Greece): An integrated approach”
A. Charalambous et al., “Alloying materials and rare copper alloys in Early and Middle Bronze Age Cyprus”
A. Oikonomou et al., “Study of glass degradation on Mycenean glass artifacts using large area μ-XRF scanning (MA-XRF)”
D. Finn, “Tracing the origins of Late Minoan IB copper oxhide ingots”
M. Kaparou et al., “Technological insights into Common Mitanni faience cylinder seals from the Late Bronze Age Aegean using x-ray fluorescence spectrometry”
M. Kaparou et al., “A study on the degradation of Mycenaean Vitreous Artefacts via X-rays and Ion-Beam techniques”
D. Aristotelous, “The osteoarchaeological collections of the Department of Antiquities”
L. Pospieszny et al., “Human mobility in LBA coastal Thessaly through Sr isotope analysis”
K. McKenna and N. Herrmann, “Frailty in Middle to Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age non-adults in Central Greece”
Y. Chatzikonstantinou et al., “Recognizing burning conditions in Early Minoan Koumasa. Infrared and isotopic analyses in burnt bones from Tholos Tomb B”
N. Branca and K. Lorentz, “Cremated human remains from Palaepaphos-Skales: a case study from the Iron Age of Cyprus”
G. Selempa, “Preliminary results of the osteological analysis of two Late Bronze Age tombs from modern Limassol, Cyprus”
Advances in modelling past human ecosystems
On 22-24 May 2024 a workshop entitled Advances in modelling past human ecosystems: Bringing together traditional ecological knowledge, archaeological science and computational archaeology will be held in Köln, Germany. Further information is available at https://ecosystem-modelling.uni-koeln.de/home. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
D. Daems, “Simulating urban transformations and human-environment interactions during the first millennium BCE in southwest Anatolia”
CIAC 2024
On 3-9 June 2024 the 20th International Congress of Classical Archaeology (CIAC 2024). The Archaeology of Lived Spaces will be held in Paris. Further information is available at https://www.aiac.org/en/xxth-international-congress-of-classical-archaeology-ciac/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
A. Cannavò, “Languages and scripts in the Kition-Idalion-Tamassos area: territorial and diachronic distribution”
46th International Mediterranean Survey Workshop
On 12-13 April 2024 the 46th International Mediterranean Survey Workshop was held in hybrid format in Athens. Further information is available at https://www.arch.uoa.gr/anakoinoseis_kai_ekdiloseis/proboli_anakoinosis/46o_diethnes_synedrio_international_mediterranean_survey_workshop/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
K. Sbonias and G. Kordatzaki, “The Vrysinas mountain archaeological survey in Crete: Interpreting the Late Minoan IIIC refuge settlement landscape”
M. Gkouma, P. Karkanas, Y. Papadatos, T. Brogan, and C. Sofianou, “In search of a lost city: a geoarchaeological study of the Minoan habitation in the Ierapetra plain”
V. Samaras and Z. Papadopoulou, “Surveying an uninhabited island: Methodological questions, challenges, and perspectives in the intensive field survey of Rheneia (Cyclades, Greece)”
Y. Papadatos and C. Sofianou, “Archaeological “autopsies” in Greece: some thoughts on the basis of the results of two surface surveys in the area of Siteia, East Crete”
A. Katevaini, “Walking the fields with KoBoToolBox at hand”
K. P. Trimmis and L. Tzortzopoulou-Gregory, “Landscape biographies and insular surveys: The case of Australian Paliochora Kythera Archaeological Survey (APKAS)”
M.s Katsianis, “Curating and reassessing geospatial site survey data”
N. Galanidou, P. Tsakanikou, G. Beka, G. Iliopoulos, S. Kübler, A. Zoulia, and J. Tactikos, “The early Palaeolithic settlement of Lesbos: the off-site evidence”
K. Sporn, P. Kounouklas, and W. M. Kennedy, “The Kephissos Valley Project. Current Results and Future Perspectives”
A. Knodell, “Archaeological Lidar in Greece: A Summary of Recent Work”
L’iconographie cynégétique
On 22-26 April 2024 a colloquium entitled L’iconographie cynégétique dans les mondes anciens was held in Paris. Further information is available at http://www.arscan.fr/blog/colloque-liconographie-cynegetique-dans-les-mondes-du-22-au-24-avril-2024-anciens/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers included:
Q. Zarka, “Armes et chasseurs, la representation de la chasse dans la petite glyptique en Egée au cours du Bronze Récent”
E. Drakaki, “Beyond the Lion: The Hunt of Deer and Wild Boars in the Glyptic Iconography of Late Bronze Age Greek Mainland”
M. Cultraro, “I Dreamed a Lion, Indeed a Lioness! Reconstructing an Unknown Hunting Iconography in Mycenaean World”
L. Phialon, “La chèvre et le chien: une analyse des scenes de chasse sur les larnakes égéennes”
SOMA 2024
On 25-27 April 2024 the 25th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA 2024) was held in Zadar, Croatia. Further information is available at https://www.icua.hr/najava/call-for-applications-soma-2024-xxv-symposium-on-mediterranean-archaeology/15. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers included:
A. Baldiran, “A Harbor of Güllük Bay and a Shipwreck”
A. Famprikatzi, “Small but gold: the flourishing mariners of Chryssi Island”
N. N. Köknar, “Paths in Visible Waterscapes: Milesia and the Maeander Valley during the Late Bronze Age”
S. Caggiano, “The underwater surveys by MPM Project in Cyprus (Limassol)”