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The August 2026 summer communications from Nestor (53.8) are available as a free download.

EAA AM 2026

On 26-29 August 2026 the 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists: Resonant Pasts (EAA AM 2026) will be held in Athens, Greece. Further information is available at https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2026. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include:
I. Georganas, “Aegean Late Bronze ‘Warrior Graves’ Before, During and After the Palatial Period: Similarities and Differences”
N. Ivanova, T. Bogdanova, and R. Hristova, “Microremains and macroquestions: plant processing and subsistence strategies in two Late Neolithic sites in Eastern Bulgaria”
E.-S. Kourti, “Out of the Pit: First phytolith results from the upper levels of a Neolithic site in Northern Greece”
Y. Katreva, E, Marinova, and E. Bozhinova, “Resinous Adhesive Materials as Multi-Proxy Archives of Environmental and Technological Practices for the LBA. A Case Study from Plovdiv, Bulgaria”
D. Borowka, “Resilience at the Margins: Rethinking Prehistoric Settlement in the Underexplored Landscapes of Southwest Crete”
R. Vandam, G. Stoffels, P. De Weirdt, M. Polidorou, E. Egberts, R. Hoevers, S. Vervust, G. Verstraeten, M. Vanmaercke, and C. Schwarz, “Untangling the Late Bronze Age Collapse: An interdisciplinary study of landscape dynam¬ics and resilience strategies in the Larnaca Bay (Cyprus)”
D. Mihailovic, T. Carter, D. Contreras, J. Holcomb, C. Lahaye, and D. Athanasoulis, “Pleistocene Stelida in the Mega-Cyclades: Bioenvironmental Contexts of Insularity, Connectivity, and Technological Adaptation”
E. Ünlü and E. Kozal, “The Impact of Changing Political Landscape of Anatolia on Cilicia’s Maritime Connectivity during the Middle to Late Bronze Periods”
N. Kazamias, “Beyond the Grey Area: Lesvos and the Northeast Aegean in Late Bronze Age Maritime Networks”
G. Muti, “The Island that Made Sails: Landscape, Resources and Production of Maritime Textiles in Bronze and Iron Age Cyprus”
L. Pisanu, “Beyond the Aegean: Social Complexity, Agency, and Trade in Nuragic Sardinia”
B. Casa, “External auditory exostoses and the evolution of aquatic activity in Cyprus from the Aceramic Neolithic to the Roman period”
C. Broodbank, “Keynote: Islands in the stream of science: new perspectives and new opportunities”
M. Monnier, “Making and repairing a Mycenaean copper cauldron: understanding the techniques of the past with modern coppersmith”
C. Mcnamee, S. Vitale, T. Marketou, and M. Michailidou, “Settlement Strategies, Land Use Choices, and Human Agencies: A Comparative Case Study from the Island of Kos, Dodecanese, Greece”
M. Gurova and C. Bonsall, “Raw material networks in Balkan Prehistory: a proxy for social interaction and sustainability”
J. Fries-Knoblach, “Breaking the shell: Marine invertebrates in cultic and funeral contexts of the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean”
T. Theodoropoulou and V. Vlachou, “Shells for the deceased: shell remains from burial contexts in the Early Iron Age and Archaic Aegean”
A. Dimoula, “Keynote: Interactions between Northern Greece and the Southern Balkans during the 6th millennium BCE: The Case of Impresso Pottery”
L. Bonga, “Early Neolithic Impressed, Incised, and Finger-pinched Pottery from Pontokomi-Vrysi and Mavorpigi-Filotsairi, Western Macedonia, Greece “
A. Reingruber, “The importance of impressed pottery from newly discovered Neolithic flat sites in north-eastern Thessaly “
L. Hüntemann, “Beyond the Early Neolithic: Impressed Pottery from Agia Sophia Magoula in Thessaly, Greece”
E. Andoni, “Keynote: Between the Adriatic and the Balkans: Impressed Neolithic Pottery in Albania”
D.-A. Tsami, “A critical approach to field data for the study of impressed ceramics between the Aegean and Adriatic seas”
R. George, “Human Population Genomics and the Cardial-Impresso phenomenon”
Z. Tsirtsoni, “Keynote: Impressed pottery as expression of pottery traditions in pre- and protohistoric Greece and Eastern Balkans”
O. Bamyaci, “Symbolism of Ground Stone Tools in the Northeastern Aegean: Practises from Gulpınar”
T. Bekiaris, “Crafting Communities: Stone Edge Tool Technologies and Traditions in Neolithic Kastoria”
L. Sorensen, M. Brandl, and O. Bamyacı, “Pieces of Places: The Discovery of Novel Neolithic Exchange Networks in the Aegean”
M. Brandl, L. Sørensen, and K. Manteli, “From Stone to Network: The Rise of Sesklo and Dimini as Neolithic Hubs of Exchange”
M. Mexi, “Small Tools, Long Lives: Ground stone cutting tools from the Early Bronze Age Settlement at Koropi (Attica)”
V. Fries, E. Andoni, J. Anvari, D. Orton, and P. Willett, “Faunal Remains from the Middle Neolithic Site of Luadisht (Albania): Subsistence and Animal Exploitation”
T. Valchev, “Bronze Age stone casting mould from the village of Drama, Yambol district, Bulgaria”
A. Kayaalp, “From Furnace to Philosophy: Western Anatolian Metalwork and Early Aegean Understandings of Physics”
E. Grabar, A. Charalambous, and G. Papasavvas, “Revisiting the metal artifacts excavated by the French Expedition at Enkomi”
Y. Facorellis and C. Marangou, “Metallurgical activities in the rock-cut coastal landscape of Myrina Kastro, North Aegean”
E. Chrysocheri and N. Karapetsi, “Mobile Communities, Anchored Sites: Collaborative Practice at the Mycenaean Shipwreck off Modi Islet, Poros”
E. Brachou and S.-M. Valamoti, “Exploring diversity and specialization in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Dikili Tash through charred plant remains”
E. Banou, “Ritual Reflections of the Land-, Sea and Sky-scape of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno, Kythera”
S. Aulsebrook, “What the Cult Centre Megaron does and does not tell us about craft and religion at Late Bronze Age Mycenae”
A. Brysbaert, “Sacred skills, self-definition, and scale: object and space biographies in Prehistoric East Mediterranean crafts and rituals”
T. Boloti, “The economic role of sanctuaries as producers and consumers: textiles/garments in sacred spaces during the Mycenaean period”
S. Cvecek, “Enthrone, dethrone, rethrone: Interpreting Matrilineal Kinship in Aegean Prehistory”
C. Marangou, “Representing physical or symbolic gender differentiation in the Neolithic – reflections of reality, transition, liminality and ambiguity?”
K. Doležalová, C. Luke, and C. Roosevelt, “Surveying the Stones of Daily Life: Grinding Stone Production at the Bronze Age Citadel of Kaymakçı in western Anatolia”
A. Chroni and V. Karathanassi, “The Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean cultural network: GIS for theory and practice crossroads, public engagement and cultural heritage management reconciliation”
A. Chroni and C. Merkouri, “Applied archaeology: geoinformatics for a holistic documentation of the Mycenaean cemetery at Kambi, Zakynthos island, Greece”
K. Karanikola, S.-M. Valamoti, and G. Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, “Crop flexibility and adaptation in marginal environments: Late Bronze Age millet from Skala Sotiros, Thasos (northern Greece) in its regional context”
D. Brown, “Assessing Shape Variation in Mycenaean Artefacts Using 2D Geometric Morphometrics”
N. Aleksandrov, “Expected Choices: Organization of Lithic Technology and Morphological Change in Neolithic and Chalcolithic Bulgaria”
L. Kvapil and K. Shelton, “How do we ‘handle’ this? Exploring vessel handles to reconstruct social practices”
M. Kaczmarek, K. Winnicka, M. Przymorska-Sztuczka, M. Truszkowski, and A. Ulanowska, “Changes in Function, Structure, and Morphology of Textile Impressions on Pottery from the Late Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age”
F. Georgiadis, K. Trimmis, and S. Katsarou, “Unfinished Tales: Towards a Diachronic and Interdisciplinary Approach in Mediterranean Cave Archaeology”
T. Strasser, “Iconographical Superimposition at Asphendou Cave on Crete: Practice and Meaning”
E. Karkazi, S. Katsarou, S. Ligkovanlis, E. Asouti, and C. Kabukcu, and A. Darlas, “Reconstructing a Lost Cave Stratigraphy: Marine and Karst Processes at Limnopoula Rockshelter (Varassova, Western Greece)”
C. Perlès and M. Rose, “Constructing a chronostratigraphic framework for the Franchthi Cave and Paralia”
J. Beck, P. Birchler Emery, and D. Sakellariou, “From subterranean to submerged: investigating the Bay of Kiladha, beyond Franchthi Cave”
A. Papathanasiou, “Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave and memorialization: interpretive challenges of the ritual practices and the mortuary record”
D. Chadjiangelou, “The excavation of the Klenia Cave in Corinthia. Ritual practices in prehistoric Peloponnese and comparisons with Cretan caves”
I. Efstathiou and N. Daskalakis, “New Finds and Stratigraphic Evidence for the Diachronic Use of the Psychro Cave, Crete”
S. Ferrence, L. Bonga, and A. Kanta, “Making Sense of Taphonomic Processes in the Neolithic “Longue Durée” in the Pelekita Cave, Crete: An Ongoing Discussion”
K. Trimmis, “Surveying the Underground: Discovery Units, Deposits, and Non-Invasive Cave Archaeology in the Mediterranean”
A. Sarris and S. Katsarou, “Archaeological CaveScapes in Central-West Greece”
A. Aidonis, E. Ganiatsou, A. Souleles, C. Kakasa, P. Bantavanou, S. Katsarou, I. Efstathiou, A. Darlas, and C. Papageorgopoulou, “Caves as biocultural archives: Interdisciplinary methods for study and outreach”
Y. Facorellis, “Radiocarbon Dating of caves and rockshelters in Greece – An overview”
A. Tsurev and P. Leshtakov, “Between Rivers and Mountains: Rethinking Movement in Early Neolithic Thrace”
S. Stylios, “Pottery and Domestic Space in Neolithic Eastern Attica”
K. Papayianni, “A microcosm of micromammals in Neolithic settlements of Greece: evidence for early synanthropy or just environmental indications?”
I. Mathioudaki and P. Pavuk, “Rethinking Middle Helladic (Pottery) Traditions”
C. Hale, “Resisting the Lustre: Central Euboean ‘Grey Power’ and the Entrenched Traditions of Middle Helladic Central Greece”
D. Frank, “From Fingerprints to Orbits: Reassessing NAA Provenance in the MH–LH Northeast Peloponnese “
S. Vitale, “Crafting Complexity: Middle Helladic Traditions, Mainland Agency, and the Making of Mycenaean Lustrous Decorated Pottery”
F. Nani, “Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something New: Aeginetan-Mycenaean Interactions at Mitrou, Central Greece, during the Early Late Bronze Age”
T. Krapf and M.-F. Papakonstantinou, “Between Mitrou and Pefkakia: End of MBA and the process to Mycenaeanization at the coastal site of Raches (Central Greece)”
N. Abell and D. Roberson, “Evaluating the persistence of mainland-style consumption practices into the Late Bronze Age at Ayia Irini, Kea”
T. Van Damme, “Quantifying and qualifying Late Helladic (LH) I at Eleon”
D. Agnousiotis, “Pottery of non-Mycenaean traditions during the early Late Bronze Age at the site of Kastro-Palaia, Volos”
G. Tsiaggouris and M. Tsouli, “Communities in transition in the Eurotas Valley: a Middle Helladic III/Late Helladic I small tholos tomb from Sparta”
L. Phialon, “Continuity and change in late Middle Helladic and early Late Helladic Boeotia: an update”
B. Huber, “Innovation, representation and fortification in Aegina Kolonna. New thoughts on the representative function of fortifications in the Early Mycenaean period”
S. Dimaki and M. Georgiadis, “The Early Neolithic Vrastero in southern Grevena”
B. Legarra Herrero, “The transformative power of the fringes and in-betweens. Exchange and change in the Bronze Age Mediterranean”
T. Malachtaris, “Social complexity in Neolithic Thessaly: Case studies from the settlements of Dimini, Mandra, and Palioskala”
M. Mitrovich, “The Body Politic: what the iconography of the human body can reveal about the socio¬political structure of Minoan Crete”
Y. Beld, “The emergence of inequality and socio-political complexity in early Mycenaean Laconia: a bottom-up story?”
S. Hilker, “Non-palatial Agency in Mycenaean Settlement Development”
T. Sager, “Building Agency in Late Bronze Age Crete: Architectural micro-history as an approach to social change”
I. Papaioannou, S, Valamoti, Z. Intze, A. Siros, and G. Konidaris, “Preliminary Zooarchaeological evidence from Antartes Cave in Northern Greece”
A. Harding, “Keynote: The Balkans in the Bronze Age: connected or disconnected?”
V. Szeverenyi, “Early Bronze Age networks between the Carpathian Basin and the Aegean”
J. Dani, “Birds flying high... The Balkanic roots of the bird representations of the Bronze Age Carpathian Basin”
E. Pasztor, “Trading cosmological symbols? Bronze Age cosmological depictions and the southern relations”
F. Frankovic and P. Pavúk, “From Hand to Hand: Bronze Age Two-Handled Cups between Anatolia, the Aegean, and the Carpathian Basin”
O. Gyurka, “The Maros Group and Aegean Connectivity: Local Communities in Bronze Age Networks”
Á. Mengyán, Z. Hrabák, B. Bajnóczi, V. Szilágyi, Z. Kasztovszky, and F. Kristály, “Local, regional, long-distance? Trade networks in the Tumulus period through raw material analyses from Maklár (NE Hungary)”
A. Kapuran, “Burial Rite between the Central Balkan and North Aegean World during Early and Middle Bronze Age”
T. Daróczi, “Funerary kits, high-res c14 and a late Middle Bronze Age Danubian epidemic, as contextual data for southeast European contacts”
D. Ilieva,Y. Mutafchieva, and V. Dimitrova, “The Middle Bronze Age site of Slivnitsa, Bulgaria: at the crossroads of Northern and Southern Balkans”
P. Minkov, “The amber road: The earliest evidences of amber in context of territory of present-day Bulgaria”
E. Bozhinova, “The End of the Bronze Age. The Case of Plovdiv, Bulgaria”
L. Marta, “Mycenae and the Carpathians. Similarities in social valorization of architecture”
D. Ložnjak Dizdar, “Old stories from the local view of the southern Carpathian Basin: new finds and contexts”
E. Fejer, “The ‘cutting-edge’ perspective – utilitarian implements and transregional interactions between the Aegean and the Carpathian Basin”
C. Bodnár and A. Márton, “Bronze socketed axes from Corinth? – Balkan–Aegean interactions in the post-palatial and Early Iron Age: evidence from metal objects”
J. Maran, “Keynote: Endnote to the session”
G. Cavillier, “The ‘Shardana Project,’ Pirates and navigators in the eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age: perspectives and research”
E. Apostola, “Egyptian religious ideas in the Mediterranean during the Early Iron Age: the funerary and votive aspects of Egyptian amulets”
K. Boyadzhiev, T. Popova, M. Andonova-Katsarski, and Y. Katreva, “Visibility and reconstruction of timber and daub architecture in prehistoric tell sites: the case of Chalcolithic Yunatsite, South Bulgaria”
G. Cavillier, “‘Shardana Project’: the impact of the Sea Peoples in Egypt: perspectives and research”
G. Ntzoufras, Y. Papadatos, and T. Kalantzopoulou, “How Marginal? How Central? The case of Mt. Dikte, East Crete, during the Bronze Age”
H. Aleksandrova and M. Andonova-Katsarski, “Regulating Archives and Archaeobotanical Archiving: Challenges from Bulgaria”
M. Pieniazek, “Carnelian and Amber in the Aegean Bronze Age: Changing Values over Time”
N. Chatzitheodoridou, “Corridors of Mobility and Connectivity: Human-Landscape Interaction in the Neolithic Strymon River Valley”
R. Laoutari, “Legacy Data, Inherited Narratives: the Site of Philia/Vasiliko-Laksia tou Kasinou in Occupied Cyprus at the Dawn of the Bronze Age”
A. Ulanowska, M. Kaczmarek, M. Przymorska-Sztuczka, K. Winnicka, and K. Żebrowska, “Practice, execution, implementation - what we can learn from handling textiles and clay, based (mostly) on evidence from the Aegean”
J. Marks, “Peopling the Past: Crafting Textile Communities of Practice in the Late Bronze Age Aegean”
L. Alberti and N. Abell, “Women as Brokers, Movers, and Shakers: Facilitating Change in Bronze Age Aegean Ritual Practice”
V. Tsikritea, “Material Elements of Cult: EIA Pottery and Terracotta Animal Figurines at the Peak Sanctuary of Mt. Juktas”
A. Pegoraro and G. Da Villa, “Shields for the Gods: Mapping Rituals and Connections through Miniature Shield Offerings in Early Iron Age Crete and the Mediterranean”
S. Souvatzi, “Rethinking the relationship between architecture, kinship and household in the Neolithic”
M. Semmoto, “Synchronization and cultural relations between Southern Bulgaria and the adjacent areas in the Early Bronze Age”
Z. Vasileva and P. Minkov, “Connecting Shores and Plains: The Role of Thrace in Southern Balkan Interactions during the Third Millennium BC”
K. Jazwa, “Early Helladic Settlement in Central Greece and the Influence of Coastal Proximity”
K. Douni and M. Mexi, “An Early Bronze Age mainland center in the Aegean: mobility, technological innovation and craft specialization at Koropi (east Attica)”
C. Nuttall, “Across the Saronic: Interaction and Exchange in the Third Millennium BC. Evidence from the Little Islandscapes of the Saronic Project”
J. Baxley Craig, “Covering Old Ground: Ground Stone Tools as Part of Legacy Data from Ayia Irini, Kea”
A. Papastathopoulou and O. Vus, “Echinos (Phthiotis) through the Ages: Landscape, Connectivity and Community Resilience from Prehistory to Byzantium”
E. Voulgari and M. Sofronidou, “Reassembling cooking practices in Neolithic Dispilio, NW Greece”
E. Angeli, “Everyday Vessels, Enduring Practices: The Simple Hemispherical Bowl and Its Users at Neolithic Halai, Central Greece”
A. Kaliszewska, “Early Pottery from Gournia (Crete): facts, hints and traces. Reconstructing the inner workings of a Late Prepalatial Production Centre”
M. Árvai, “The process of creation: the role of the chaîne opératoire and scientific analysis in the study of Mycenaean terracotta figurines”
A. Dybkjaer, “Crete in a Transitional Period: Interaction, Identity, and the Emergence of Social Complexity in Pre-Palatial Seal Use”
A. Anastasi and K. Anastasi, “Topography, Environment, and Settlement Variability in Prehistoric Pile-Dwelling Sites of Albania: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Approach”
A. Varis, P. Karkanas, V. Tourloukis, and K. Harvati, “Site Formation Processes at Apidima: A Preliminary Micromorphological Framework”
D. Fallu and S. Voutsaki, “Detecting Disturbance: Integrating Micromorphology, Geochemistry, and Luminescence to Disentangle Cemetery Site Formation in Bronze Age Greece”
V. Martin, “Following in the footsteps of the Neolithic metalwork in north-eastern Aegean: reconstructing chaînes opératoires from archaeological material”
D. Ioannides, R. Campbell, M. Boyd, and T. Rehren, “Recovering the Unseen: Micro Residues and Metallurgical Practice in the Early Cycladic Bronze Age”
A. Charalampous, M. Roggenbucke, E. Filippaki, and Y. Papadatos, “Functional assessment of bronze weapons from a ‘warrior burial’ at Plasi Marathon: archaeological and analytical perspectives”
A. Nikolopoulou, “Forms of Copper and Modes of Circulation in the Bronze Age Aegean”
E. Dotsika, P. Meratzis, P. Gamaletsos, and P.-L. Poutoukis, “Bioapatite δ¹⁸O as a Complementary Paleoclimate Proxy in Greece: Insights from the Neolithic to the Present”
D. Skoulikari, J. Bendle, G. Iliopoulos, C.-C. Shen, D. Sahy, M. Campbell, H. Vonhof, and V. Ersek, “A Detailed Climatic Context for Crete, Greece: Speleothem-Based Climate Reconstruction from the Late Bronze Age to Present”
M. Wittenberger, “The Golden Fleece, between legend and reality”
P. Pavuk and C. Hale, “Minoans Who? Decentering the ‘Big Two’ to Reclaim Regional Agency in the Central and Northern Aegean Middle Bronze Age”
L. Dautais and J. Rutter, “Tracing the Regional Provenance of Late Helladic IIA Ceramic Imports in Crete and Egypt: A Typo-Stylistic Approach”
V. Verešová, “Egyptian, Syrian, or Aegean? Entangled Iconographies of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium BCE”
C. Lindesay, “‘Asiatic’ Aegeans in Egyptian tombs: The interconnectivity of the Aegean and Levant, through the Egyptian record (ca.1479-1352 BCE)”
E. Bentley and S. Cox, “Traveling magic: Mediterranean exchange of childbirth protection and legitimacy”
L. Hitchcock, “Surfing the Entangled Mediterranean Web: If Water is the Network, Bronze is the Surfboard”
O. Chatys, “Tanaya: A Discussion of Evidence or of Premise?”
U. Matic, “Ancient Egyptian toponym Mnws-Kingdom of Pylos?”
K. Giannakos, “Was Henti, Queen of Hittite Great King Suppiluliuma I, an Achaean Princess Named (χ) Ἑνδηίς or (χ)Ἧτις-(χ)Ἥτεια?”
L. Phialon, “Seas Apart? Differences and Similarities in the Use of Kraters in the Second Millennium BCE Aegean and West Anatolia”
P. Meratzis, P. Gamaletsos, P. Karalis, P.-L. Poutoukis, A. Chrysostomou, and E. Dotsika, “Environmental and Cultural Signals in Human Remains: A δ³⁴S Multi-Isotope Study from Mainland Greece”

UISPP 2026

On 31 August – 4 September 2026 the XXI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP 2026) will be held in Poznań, Poland. Further information is available at https://uispp2026.syskonf.pl/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
N. Correa da Silva e Vargas, “Digging in the Archive: Reassessing The Blegen Excavations At Troy Through Legacy Data”
J. Czebreszuk, K. Nikolentzos, K. Kostanti, I. Sobkowiak-Tabaka, J. Proch, M. Kontaki, P. Lazaris, and T. Zygouris, “Archaeometric Analysis of Mycenaean Amber from the Hellenic Archaeological Mission Authority (HAMA) Collection in 2026”
A. Hafner et al., “Early waterfront settlements between the Aegean and the Adriatic (6000-600 BCE). Chronologies, land use and environmental adaptation”
A. Hafner and M. Brunner, “Rapid Cultural Change and shifts in 4th and 3rd millennium BCE”
H. Wrobel Nørgaard, D. Berger, and H. Vandkilde, “On the trail of metal-driven interaction on Sardinia in the early first millennium BCE”
M. Poultsidis and C. Meramveliotaki, “The Knossos–Troy Axis: Spatial Analysis of Aegean Archaeological Sites and Their Geometric Correspondence with the Draco Constellation”
C. Meramveliotaki, M. Zerva, and S. Kollias, “Insights from Zakros and Stonehenge: Architecture, Astronomy and Intercultural Connections in the European Bronze Age”
M. Poultsidis and C. Meramveliotaki, “Geometric Spatial Relations and Alignments of Minoan Sacred Sites: Caves, Peak Sanctuaries and Regional Networks”
C. Meramveliotaki and M. Poultsidis, “Constellations of Cassiopeia and Andromeda: Celestial Mirroring and Geometric Correspondence in Five Minoan Rings”
A. Ulanowska, N. Buławka, S. Alvanos, C. Chatzisavvas, G. Ioannakis, T. Pappas, M. Truszkowski, and K. Żebrowska, “From Clay to Code: Advancing the Study of Textile Imprints on Clay through Experimental Training Data and AI”
J. Wilczyński, “Professor Janusz Krzysztof Kozłowski – a tireless researcher of the Stone Age”
A. R. Giumlia-Mair, S. C. Ferrence, P. P. Betancourt, and M. Tsipopoulou, “Gold Beads from Petras in Minoan Crete: Shapes, Composition, and Technology”
S. Pail and B. Horejs, “Reading Fire in Clay: Archaeometric Approaches to Burnt Architecture in the Neolithic”

The July 2026 summer communications from Nestor (53.7) are available as a free download.

ScapeCon 8

On 28–29 May 2026 the 8th Ιnternational Conference of ScapeCon: No Escape: Timing. Life cycles, seasonality and human activities in the Bronze Age Aegean (ScapeCon 8) was held at the Università di Catania. Further information is available at https://scapecon8.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/7?fbclid=IwY2xjawSwuphleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeF9fzuGXJ0-DWrvQJuWdfreFDJO8z4byEKT9fNyWUTog3WeJbzuqPD4TKLsI_aem_ascPnKVQLEycwY40Fw1VIQ. The program was:
A. Brysbaert, “‘Like Sands through the Hourglass’. Seasons and Time as Resources in LBA Aegean Construction and Related Crafts”
C. Chiara, “Time and Living Spaces: Settlement Choices, Architectural and Topographical Solutions, and Relationships between Complementary Settlements in Response to Seasonal Climate Change in Minoan Villas”
M. Chiricallo, “Designing for Seasonal Rainfall? Sunken Catch Basins and Roof Configuration in Minoan Architecture”
M. Amadio and L. Bombardieri, “In Step with the Seasons: Earthen Architecture as an Adaptive Strategy to Climate and Social Changes in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus”
A. Peterková, “Enough Time to Build? An Energetic Study of Bronze Age Domestic Architecture in the Eastern Aegean Islands and Western Anatolia”
F. Buscemi, M. Figuera, and T. Messina, “From Quarry to Palace: Insights into Labour Time-Costs at the Late Bronze Age Palace of Phaistos”
C. Sofianou, T. Brogan, M. Eaby, and D. Mylona, “Evidence for Seasonality in the Bronze Age Settlement on Chryssi off the Coast of Crete”
G. Salvadori and L. F. Kaiser, “Living in an Older Frame: Temporal Rhythms and Settlement Change at Mochlos LM III”
E. Angeli, “Repairing Time: Post-Firing Perforations and the Temporal Habitus of Neolithic Pottery from Halai, East Locris (Central Greece)”
G. Ntzoufras, “Seasonality, Transhumance and Economic Transformations in Minoan Crete: The Evidence from the Uplands”
A. Karagianni, “Lines of Time, Cycles of Temporality: Interweaving Daily and Ritual Times at Final Palatial Knossos Based on Textual and Archaeological Data”
G. I. Lefa and S. M. Valamoti, “Tracing the Cycles of Time through the Integration of Archaeobotanical Remains and Linear B Texts: The Palace of Nestor as a Case Study”
E. Platania and F. Toscano, “Rhadamanthys’ Thread: Time and Space of Textile Production from Flock to Yarn at Phaistos”
L. E. Wilson, “Lamps and a Hearth: Using the Material Remains of Lighting to Study Social Activities in the Plateia Meïdani at Kastelli, Pediada, Crete”
S. Trucolo, “Light Devices in Context from Phaistos in the Protopalatial Period (1900-1700 BC): Living between Daily Activities and Ritual Practices”
B. Rueff, “Lighting Day and Night: Temporal Rhythms and Artificial Illumination in Minoan Domestic Space”
K. Lehmann, “Street Light: Seasonal Sun and Shadow in Neopalatial Gournia”
V. Kyriakidis, “Constellations and the Supernatural in Neopalatial Seal Iconography”
S. Guglielmino, “A Multidisciplinary Re-evaluation of Celestial Navigation in the Late Bronze Age Aegean”
A. Querci and C. Caleo, “Time, Distance, and Late Minoan Circulation: The Knossos-Kommos Sea-Route”
A. B. Dolino, “Ἐν δ᾽ὀπίσω Σκορπίος: Notes for a Reinterpretation of the Gold Pendant from Haghia Triada”
T. S. Andreovits, “Seasonality and Embodied Social Practice in Minoan Glyptic Imagery”
J. Komitzas, “Turning the Past into Memory: The Problematics of Time on Mycenaean Human Imagery”
L. Tapinos, “Heterotopia and Liminal Frames: The Running Spiral in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean”
F. Nani and S. Vitale, “Time After Time: Late Helladic IIA Aeginetan-Mycenaean Interaction through the Lenses of Repeated Feasting Practices at Mitrou, East Lokris”
A. Fatsi, “All in Good Time: Months, Religion and Production Cycles in the Mycenaean Palace Record”
S. Firtikiadou, “Aparchae: Seasonal Religious Offerings in the Creto-Mycenaean World”
I. Högner, R. Friedrich, and P. W. Stockhammer, “Revealing Secondary Practices in Mycenaean Chamber Tombs through Chronological Divergence of Skeletal Material and Finds”
N. B. Ayash, “No Escape from the Times of the Dead: Revisiting the Spatial Arrangement and Orientations of Minoan Tholoi in Relation to their Functionality”
J. Mahl, “Time after Death: The South-Central Cretan Tholoi Annexes as Physical Markers of Passage from Individual to Ancestor”

XXIst International Aegean Conference

On 8-11 June 2026 the XXIst International Aegean Conference/ XXIe rencontre égéenne internationale. NESTOR: Celebrating the Work of Wise Jack Davis will be held in Athens, Greece. Further information is available at https://classics.uc.edu/humanities/classics/aegaeum/aegean-conference. The program will be:
K. Lynch, “Wise Jack Davis’ career and achievements (1)”
M. Galaty, “Wise Jack Davis’ career and achievements (2)”
F. Blakolmer, “The Mycenaean or Minoan Character of the Arts in the Shaft Grave Period in the Light of Recent Finds and Research”
L. Morgan, “Heroic and Mythic Action: Warriors, Hunters, Lions and Griffins”
E. Mantzourani and G. Vavouranakis, “Wild Versus Domesticated Fauna in Prehistoric Cyprus: Iconography and the Zooarchaeological Record”
M. Marthari, “Swallows and Fleets: Iconographic Correlations between Akrotiri, Thera, and Pylos, and Transmission of Artistic Ideas in the Aegean”
R. Laffineur, “Some Reflections on Nestor’s Ceremonial Fleet”
H. Brecoulaki and E. Egan, “‘Reed’ the Room: A Recycled Wall-Painting Fragment from the Palace of Nestor”
W.-D. Niemeier, “The Master of the Combat Agate from Pylos”
M. Anastasiadou, “The Birth of Mycenaean Glyptic on the Greek Mainland in LH I-IIA”
D. Nakassis, “Ὄπως ἡμεῖς περίπου: Modern Analogies and Analogical Arguments in Tsountas”
E. Oddo, “Methodological Questions in the Publication of the Knossian Northwest Treasure House”
K. Shelton and L. Kvapil, “Beyond the Scepter: Prehistory in the Nemea Valley”
S. Vitale, “Resetting the Mycenaean Palaces: A Plea for the Reconsideration of Cultural and Social Variation in the States of Mainland Greece, circa 1375 to 1175 B.C.E.”
S. Voutsaki and N. Karadimas, “Agios Vasileios, Laconia: First Thoughts on the Rise and Fall of a Mycenaean Palatial Centre”
C. Shelmerdine, “A Fresh Look at Mycenaean Perfumes”
M. Kilani, “The Language of Luxury: Foreign Terms for Imported Goods in Mycenaean Sources”
S. Lupack, B. Weissova, S. James, M. Skuse, and P. Kasimi, “Mycenaeans in the Perachora Landscape”
W. Gauss, J. Rutter, and I. Tzonou, “A Tale of Three Understudied Bronze Age Ceramic Stages at Corinth and Korakou”
I. Tzonou, “Jack Davis and Korakou: How Did Mycenaean Corinth Become Wealthy?”
L. Papazoglou-Manioudaki, “The House of the Bronzes at Mygdalia, near Patras, in Achaea: The Architecture of the Local Elites in the Early Mycenaean World”
B. Forsén, “Early Sanctuaries and Tribes in Southern Arcadia”
C. McNamee, S. Vitale, S. R. Stocker, and E. Malapani, “Archaeological Research and Heritage Preservation: A Case Study Illustrating the Benefits of Land Use Mapping to Rescue Excavation at the Site of Romanou, Southwestern Messenia”
E. Tsiolaki, “Surveying Messenia: Challenges and Opportunities of Working with Legacy Surface Survey Data”
B. Eder, “Kakovatos in Context: Tracing Early Mycenaean Networks”
M. Cosmopoulos, “Social Memory and the Homeric Topography of Messenia”
E. Malapani, “Beyond the Mycenaean Horizon: Later Finds from the Cemetery at Antheia-Hellinika, Messenia”
S. Lafayette Hogue, “The Palace of Nestor Main Building from the Trenches”
M. Loy, “A GIS-archival Approach to Locating the Vayenas Grave Circle at Pylos”
R. Schon, “Promoting Regional Authority at Pylos: Soft Power and the Palace of Nestor”
E. Kountouri and A. Vlachopoulos, “In the Shadow of the Palace. The Mycenaean Cemetery at Volimidia (c. 1600-1050 BC)”
J. Hruby, “Beyond the Survey Horizon: Demographic Resilience after the Collapse of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos”
M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki, “Neopalatial Khania (Kydonia)”
C. Broodbank, E. Kiriatzi, and T. Wilkinson, “Late Bronze Age Small-scale Farmers as Analytical Individuals: The Micro-dynamics of Ceramic Production, Acquisition and Consumption among the Farmsteads of Second Palace Period Kythera”
T. Cullen and L. Talalay, “Hitting the JackPot: A Curious Vessel from Neolithic Plakari”
P. Zafeiriadis, “Separate Ways (But Not Worlds Apart): Southern Euboea in Cycladic Prehistoric Context”
C. Hale, “Potsherds from a Different Edge: Alternative North-South Connectivity in the Middle Bronze Age Aegean”
N. Papadimitriou, I. Mathioudaki, A. Balitsari, S. Déderix, and R. Laffineur, “Thorikos and the Cyclades in the Mid-2nd Millennium BCE: The Western String from an Attic Perspective”
T. Whitelaw, “A Tally of Two ‘Cities’: The Island Towns of Ayia Irini and Phylakopi in Comparative Perspective”
J. Newhard and C. Burton, “Developing Cross-Comparative Frameworks for Land Use Histories. Northwestern Kea in Context”
R. D. Fitzsimons, A. Belza, D. Wilson, and C. Hershenson, “Water Management at Ayia Irini: A Diachronic View”
K. Efkleidou and E. Gorogianni, “Guarding the Bounty: Agricultural Harvests and Storerooms of Ayia Irini, Kea”
M. Galaty, “Applying Greek Survey Methods Outside of Greece: Part One, the Western Balkans”
W. Parkinson, “Applying Greek Survey Methods Outside of Greece: Part Two, the Carpathian Basin”
L. Bejko, M. G. Amore, S. Aliu, and H. Tomas, “Landscape Archaeology of the Upper Devoll Valley in Southeastern Albania”
I. Pojani, “New Discovery of the Circuit Wall: Insights into the Boundaries of Archaic and Hellenistic Epidamnos-Dyrrhachion”
D. Hernandez, “On the Origins of Bouthrotos”
E. Hasaki and L. Alberti, “Bull-Leaping Spectacles: Performance and Politics in Bronze Age Palaces”
E. Zangger, “Celestial Symbolism and Lunisolar Timekeeping in Bronze Age Cultures”
T. Palaima, “Testing First Principles in Mycenology: Epistemology, Palaeography and Textual Interpretation”
S. Buck Sutton, “Field Notes: Observations on Jack’s Role in Bridging Disciplines”
N. Abell, T. Nash, J. Baxley Craig, and M. Georgakopoulou (†), “Bullets from Ayia Irini and Their Possible Implications for the Military History of Modern Kea”
E. Athanassopoulos and C. Cloke, “Landscape Archaeology as Long-Term History: Methodological Innovations and Generational Impact of the Kea, Nemea, and Pylos Surveys”
M. K. Dabney, “Problems in Interpreting Archaeological Survey Site Function”
C. Putzolu, C. McNamee, and S. R. Stocker, “From Sketches to 3D models: The Benefits of Low-cost LiDAR Sensors for Documenting Archaeological Stratigraphies"
M. Gkouma, P. Karkanas, and W. Gauss, “From Combustion to Construction: Fire Use and Spatial Organization in Late Helladic Aigeira”
L. Magno, “From Objects to Sediments: A Micromorphology Study of Pebble Surfaces at Sissi (Crete)”
L. Schepartz and S. Miller-Antonio, “Challenges and Rewards of Restudying Human Skeletal Collections from Archaeological Contexts in Greece”
D. Ruscillo, “The Anatomy of a Boar’s Tusk Helmet: Identifying the Chaîne Opératoire of a Mycenaean Warrior Status Symbol through Experimental Archaeology”
P. Halstead and V. Isaakidou, “Τα αφεντικά πρόβατα της Κυράς Μαρίας”
J. Wright, “Two Treasures from the Archives: The Works of James Ferguson at the ASCSA and His Association with Heinrich Schliemann”
N. Vogeikoff-Brogan, “From the Cold War to Classical Studies: John McCloy and the Ford Foundation's Funding of the Athenian Agora”
J. L. Kramer, “All of Blegen’s Men: The Representation of Workers at the UC Excavations at Troy and Pylos”
T. Brogan and E. J. Huffman, “The Study Center for East Crete: A Review of Its First Three Decades”
J. Sacher, “From Corinth to the Grave of the Griffin Warrior: Hesperia and the Publication of Prehistoric Greece”
K. Paschalidis and K. Voutsa, “American Indian Hunters at Athens: The Fascinating Chronicle of an Unknown Exchange of Artefacts between the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Hellenic National Archaeological Museum in the Interwar Period”
J. Bennet, “The Tyranny of Text: Interweaving Material, Textual and Visual Approaches to Aegean pasts”

The May 2026 issue of Nestor (53.5) is available as a free download.

In Poseidons Realm XXXI

On 4–10 May 2026 the conference In Poseidons Realm XXXI. Pontos Axeinos - Pontos Euxeinos: Underwater archaeology in the Black Sea will be held in Batumi, Georgia. Further information is available at http://www.deguwa.org/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
S. Wachsmann, “Sea Peoples in the Medinet Habu Naval Battle Scene”

7th International Lychnological Association Congress

On 7–9 May 2026 the 7th International Lychnological Association Congress. Ancient Lights, Modern Insights: Recent Advances in Lychnology will be held in Athens, in collaboration with the French School at Athens and the Hellenic Open University. Further information is available at https://sites.google.com/view/ila2026/home?authuser=0. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
E. Theou and K. Kopaka, “Lighting a small island's nights. Gavdos's lamps in time”
S. Katsarou and F. Georgiadis, “Illuminating the Deep: Multi-temporal lighting assemblages from ‘Agriomernos’ Cave, Samos”
D. Spiliopoulou, “The lighting devises of the prehistoric settlement of Akrotiri, Thira. Evidence of daily life practices and religious rituals”
B. Rueff, “Conical cups and other spoutless vessels used as lamps in Bronze Age Crete. Technical and social insights”
S. Trucolo, “Light and function in the Protopalatial contexts of Phaistos (Crete): a Reassessment of ceramic lighting systems (1900-1700 BC)”
D. Gavriil, “‘And Let There Be Light’: The Lighting Conditions as an Organizational Factor of Mortuary Rituals and Experiences at LBA Alassa-Pano Mantilaris”

ISA 2026

On 18-22 May 2026 the 45th International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA 2026) will be held in Torino, Italy. Further information is available at https://isa2026torino.it/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
G. S. Polymeris, G. Tampakopoulou, J. Sanjurjo-Sánchez, I.K. Sfampa, G. Kitis, K. Stamoulis, A. Hein, A. Vafiadou, Y. Soukantos, P. Triantafyllidis, and Y. Facorellis, “Chronological Reconstruction of the Building Phases of the Largest Urban Center of Europe’s Prehistory; A Combined Tl and Radiocarbon Dating Study in Poliochne, Lemnos”
V. Orfanou, K. Aktypi, A. Batziou, E. Borgna, Th. Giannopoulos, A. Franjic, O. A. Jones, C. Kleitsas, K. Kostanti, Y. Lavallée, I. Lemos, D. Müller, P. Degryse, and P. W. Stockhammer, “Understanding the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean Through Metallurgical Technology and Knowledge Networks”

From the Pleistocene to Anthropocene

On 22 May 2026 a workshop entitled From the Pleistocene to Anthropocene: Navigating the Challenges of Representing Long-Term History will be held by the Danish Institute in Athens. Further information is available at https://www.cig-icg.gr/event/international-workshop-from-the-pleistocene-to-anthropocene-navigating-the-challenges-of-representing-long-term-history/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
I. Hodder, “'What goes around comes around': towards a wave theory of the long-term’”
S. Crewson, “Meeting the challenges of representing long-term histories: A Middle Pleistocene to Anthropocene case study from Stelida, Naxos (Greece)”
J. Bintliff, “Seeing with your feet: Landscape Archaeology in layered and compressed time”
R. Wragg Sykes, “Archaeological Imaginaries: Thinking Through Writing About the Past”
G. Vavouranakis, “Can Deep Time be considered an active constituent of Minoan society?”
D. Gavriil, “What is it to be a Cypriot? A Humanocentric Interpretation of Bronze Age Cypriot Settlements in the Longue Durée”
H. Dawson, “Keeping time: The multi-temporal histories of small Mediterranean islands”
D. Athanasoulis, “Showcasing the Cycladic past”
M. Dragouni, “Working with stakeholder communities in heritage research”
T. Carter, “Sources of history: Lithic quarries & archaeology of the long-term, the case of Göllü Dağ (Türkiye)”
T. Whitelaw, “To make a long story short: addressing the changing character and role of Knossos in Crete over nine millennia”

The April 2024 issue of Nestor (53.4) is available as a free download.

YRA 2026

On 1 May 2026 abstracts (200 words maximum) are due for the 9th Workshop of Young Researchers in Archaeometry (YRA 2026), to be held on 28–30 October 2026 in Reykjavík, Iceland. Further information is available at https://www.yra-ecr.org/current.html.

POCA 2026

On 4 May 2026 abstracts (250 words maximum) are due for the 23rd Postgraduates in Cypriot Archaeology Meeting (POCA 2026), to be held on 11–13 November 2026 in Leiden, the Netherlands. Further information is available at https://sites.google.com/view/poca2026/home.

PEBA 5

On 15 August 2026 abstracts (ca. 500 words) are due for the 5th Perspectives on Balkan Archaeology: Tracking the Routes – Movements of people, goods and ideas in Southeast Europe during the Metal Ages (PEBA 5), to be held on 26–29 May 2027 in Tirana, Albania. Further information is available at https://pebasite.wordpress.com/. These key questions will be addressed:
• How did prehistoric communities shape and use landscapes to enable or facilitate mobility?
• What traces do patterns of movement leave in settlements and funerary landscapes or material culture in general?
• What impact did environmental changes – such as drying rivers, fluctuating lake levels, or abrupt tectonic events – have on mobility patterns?
• In what ways were natural features like streams, mountain passes, or plateaus intentionally used to organize movement through space or incorporated into mobility strategies?
• What factors encouraged mobility – and what limited it?
• Why were certain places used despite appearing “counterintuitive” or difficult to access – such as burial mounds on remote uplands with no obvious resources?
• What role did funerary landscapes play in mobility strategies, spatial perception and social representation?
• How did mobility patterns differ across major landscape zones – e.g. coastal areas, open plains, or mountainous regions?
• How did mobility vary by life stage – for example, between childhood and adulthood? What role did gender, status, and social function play in determining who moved and who stayed?
• What archaeological material or biological indicators can be used to reconstruct the mobility of individuals or groups?
• To what extent do technical-formal adaptations of objects reflect complex mobility processes?
• How may shifts in material culture, burial practices, social structure, subsistence strategies or settlement patterns mirror (or relate to) mobility and connectivity shifts?

ΑΕΜΘ 2026

On 5–6 March 2026 the 38η Επιστημονική Συνάντηση— Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και τη Θράκη (ΑΕΜΘ 2026) was held in Thessaloniki, Greece. Further information is available at https://www.hist.auth.gr/administration_annou/to-archaiologiko-ergo-sti-makedonia-kai-ti-thraki-5-6-martiou-2026/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
N. Zorzin, Δ. Μαλαμίδου, J. Taylor, and Ι. Σουκάντος, “Η Τούμπα Σερρών και η Νεότερη Νεολιθική περίοδος της νότιας Βαλκανικής: τα δεδομένα της συστηματικής ανασκαφής (2021-2025)”
Μ. Παππά, Γ. Σταυριδόπουλος, and Ευ. Βλιώρα, “Θέρμη 2025-26. Ερευνώντας τα διαχρονικά όρια του οικισμού”
Ά. Παντή, “Σωστική ανασκαφική έρευνα στο νεκροταφείο της Εποχής Σιδήρου στον Δρυμό Θεσσαλονίκης”
Ι. Μάνος and Κ. Τσιάκου, “Αμφίπλευρη φυλλόσχημη αιχμή από το Τριφύλλι Δεσκάτης: συμβολή στην παλαιολιθική λιθοτεχνία της Δυτικής Μακεδονίας”
Ευ. Βούλγαρη, Μ. Σωφρονίδου, and Κ. Κωτσάκης, “Μεταποιημένα θραύσματα και αγγεία από το Δισπηλιό Καστοριάς”

Some changes have been made to the format and appearance of Nestor this month:
• The layout of new issues is now fully accessible and Title II compliant.
• The masthead is in color.
• The Nestor numbers are no longer printed; although they are still used “behind the scenes” to link reviews to the volumes reviewed in the searchable online bibliographic database, they have not been useful to readers since we ended the print issues and annual indices in 2010.
• On the Nestor website, all issues remain downloadable (https://classics.uc.edu/nestor/pages/issues) but are now combined as annual volumes rather than monthly issues and are organized by decades.
We hope readers find the new formatting attractive and we continue unchanged our charge to build an accurate and convenient database of publications in Aegean prehistory and related areas. Special thanks this month to John Wallrodt, sine quo non, for his patience and guidance.

ARU Spring 2026 lecture series

The schedule of public lectures hosted by the Archaeological Research Unit at the University of Cyprus has been announced for spring 2026. Lectures are at 7:30 pm (EET) in hybrid form; registration for either in-person or remote attendance is required Further information is available at https://www.ucy.ac.cy/aru/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2026/01/LECTURE-PROGRAM-SPRING-SEMESTER-2026.pdf. Lectures of interest to Nestor readers will include:
9 February 2026: O. Daune-Le Brun, “You can't just improvise being a builder: reconstructing Neolithic Khirokitia, Cyprus”
2 March 2026: J. Webb, “The archaeology of Bronze Age Lapithos: from 1913 to 2025”
16 March 2026: P. Stockhammer, “Social Belonging in Mycenaean Greece: New Bioarchaeological Insights”
21 March 2026: “‘Το Έργον '25’ Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου, 2025”
20 April 2026: F. Zangani, “How Egyptology and Cypriot Archaeology can (and should) be brought into dialogue”

Final NYABA

On 26 March 2026, after 50 years, the final meeting of the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium will be held at 12:00 pm (EDT). Aleydis Van de Moortel will speak on “The Emergence of Socio-Political Complexity at Mitrou and the Formation of a Central Greek Elite Culture in the LH I–IIA period (ca. 1700–1450 BCE).” Brief remarks on the history of the colloquium will precede the lecture. The meeting will be held on Zoom, with registration available at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/6r9PATirRPOqHLZBV5weog#/registration.

WAVE 2

On 26-29 March 2026 a conference entitled Writing As Visual Engagement (WAVE 2) will be held in Cambridge. Further information is available at https://viewsproject.wordpress.com/writing-as-visual-engagement/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
M. Wiltshire, “Direction in early Cretan seals”

CAA 2026

On 31 March - 4 April 2026 the 53rd Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2026): It’s All About People will be held in Vienna, Austria. Further information is available at https://2026.caaconference.org/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include:
N. Sepetzoglou, D. Niotis, S. Triantos, and A. Vlachopoulos, “Tracing Aegean Prehistory in the rocky landscape. From aerial photogrammetry to detailed recording of petroglyphs at Vathy, Astypalaia”
J. Wallrodt, “Experimental AI Applications for Rapid Archaeological Legacy Data Distribution”
M. Bergoffen, M. Papadopoulou, A. Karnava, and C. Roche, “Iconographic Metadata: From 'Traditional' Databases to Semantic Data”
A. Michalopoulou, “Beyond Application: Rethinking Spatial Interaction Modelling in Mycenaean Archaeology”
K. Sgouropoulos, A. Sarris, and D. Urem-Kotsou, “Linking Ground and Aerial Perspectives: A Vision-Based Workflow for Archaeological Surface Survey”
I. Ladenis, K. Sgouropoulos, and D. Urem-Kotsou, “Popularising archaeological predictive modelling: An application on neolithic settlements in Thrace”
D. Gavriil, “‘Putting the Body in its Rightful Place’: Assessing Bodily Senses in Late Cypriot Mortuary Rituals at Alassa Pano Mantilaris”
E. Vereketi, E. Paliou, and V. Petrakis, “Fragmented Coasts, Connected Worlds: Maritime Interaction and Social Reorganization in the Post-Palatial Ionian-Adriatic Region”
S. Kübler, P. Tsakanikou, and N. Galanidou, “Lower Palaeolithic hominin activity at the Lesvos wetland: a view from agent-based modelling and affordance analysis”
V. Panagiotidis and V. Valantou, “From Nestor’s ‘Wine Magazine’ To Pgi Labels: A Terrain-Aware Wine Landscape of Messenia”

Anna De Sio Memorial Award 2026

On 28 February 2026 applications are due for the Anna De Sio Memorial Award 2026 (€1,125) for research by a graduate student, PhD candidate, or scholar (no age limit) in the field of the Minoan, Mycenaean, and Greek Religion at the Centro Internazionale per la Ricerca sulle Civiltà Egee “Pierre Carlier” (CIRCE) in Oristano, Sardinia, for a period of one month between 1 April and 30 November 2026. Further information is available at https://www.comune.oristano.it/.galleries/doc-documenti/Bando-Anna-De-Sio-Memorial-Award.pdf.

The January 2026 issue of Nestor (53.1) is available as a free download.

ASOR 2026

On 15 January 2026 abstracts are due for new member-organized session and workshop proposal for the American Schools of Overseas Research Annual Meeting 2026 (ASOR 2026), to be held in Chicago and hybrid on 18-21 November 2026. Paper and workshop proposals may be submitted between 15 February and 15 March, and poster proposals between 1 June and 1 August. Further information, including already accepted conference sessions and proposal submission forms, is available at https://www.asor.org/am/.