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Volume 40 Issue 6 September 2013 Nestor Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati Editor: Carol Hershenson P.O. Box 0226, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45221-0226, U.S.A. Assistant Editor: Jeffrey L. Kramer http://classics.uc.edu/nestor [email protected] COMMUNICATIONS Grants and Fellowships On 1 November 2013 applications are due to the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) for 2014 New or Renewal Research Grants, the Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the Petrography Internship at the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete (SCEC), the SCEC Librarian Fellowship, and Six-Week Research Grants at INSTAP SCEC. Applications for Publication Team Support and Publication Subventions have no specific due dates. Further information and applications are available at http://www.aegeanprehistory.net/; applications can now be submitted via e-mail as MS WORD documents or fillable PDF forms. On 15 January 2014 applications are due for the Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars Program at the University of Cincinnati, Classics Department in the fields of archaeology, history, or philology, tenable during the academic year 2014-2015. Tytus Fellows will ordinarily be at least five years beyond receipt of the PhD, and will come to Cincinnati to pursue their own research. The minimum and maximum terms for Long Term Fellows are one semester and a maximum of two; Short Term Fellows will reside in Cincinnati for a minimum of one month and a maximum of two. Both categories of Tytus Fellows receive housing, a transportation allowance, a monthly stipend of $1,000, and office space, as well as the use of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College Libraries. On 15 February 2013 applications are due for the Tytus Summer Residency Program at the University of Cincinnati, Classics Department in the fields of archaeology, history, or philology, tenable for one to three months during the summer of 2014; summer fellows receive free university housing, office space, and the use of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College Libraries. Further information is available at http://classics.uc.edu/index.php/tytus, where application forms are also available, or from [email protected]. Calls for Papers On 8 September 2013 abstracts (250 words) for papers (20 minutes maximum) and posters are due for an international conference entitled Land, Territory, and Population in Ancient Greece: Institutional and Mythical to be held on 23-25 October 2013 at Bellaterra (Barcelona). Paper and panel contributions will be admitted in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, German, and Italian. Further information is available at http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/institucionsmites/content/colloqui-terra-territori-i- Nestor 40.6 128 September 2013 poblaci%C3%B3-lantiga-gr%C3%A8cia. Contributions are invited addressing the following topics: Population relationships in the II and I Millenium BC Legal regulation of foreign relations: The condition of ‘foreigner’ Cultural and commercial ties Land occupation and production: Colonization, foundation of cities, and land distribution; Different degrees of access to land tenure Migration movements On 31 October 2013 abstracts (250 words maximum) are due for the conference In Poseidons Realm XIX: Life By water and waterside, to be held on 21-23 March 2014 at the Pfahlbaumuseum, Unteruhldingen, Bodensee. Conference papers will be published in Skyllis. Further information is available at http://www.deguwa.org/. On 31 October 2013 paper, poster, and workshop proposals are due for the 2014 Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA 2014), to be held on 9-11 January 2014 at the University of Reading. Further information is available at http://www.reading.ac.uk/archaeology/Conferences/BANEA/ or from [email protected]. Proposals for themed workshops of half day or whole day duration are invited; key topics will include: Sustainability and resilience Access and networks Social identity, power, and governance New agendas in landscape archaeology Near Eastern archaeology in the contemporary world Other current research themes Excavation and survey reports On 31 December 2013 manuscripts are due for the 8th volume (2014) of Pasiphae: Rivista di filologia e antichità egee, an annual international journal containing philological, epigraphic, historical, and archaeological studies of the Aegean civilizations, especially of the Minoan and Mycenaean world; articles will also be welcomed on the relations between the Minoan and Mycenaean world and the contemporary Mediterranean civilizations (Cyprus, the Anatolian and Syro-Palestinian coasts, Egypt and the Western Mediterranean) as well as papers on the Mycenaean heritage in the Greek world of the 1st millennium B.C. For the contents of the first six volumes (2007-2012), see www.libraweb.net/sommari.php?chiave=333; further information is available at http://www.libraweb.net/documenti/Guidelines-PASIPHAE_2013.pdf. Contributions must be e-mailed to Anna Sacconi at [email protected] or [email protected]. Authors are invited to send their original manuscripts for publication in the digital relaunch of Minos, to be published starting in 2014 in two annual issues (May and November) as a double-blind peer-reviewed journal in electronic format. With a multidisciplinary approach, Minos will publish articles and reviews of books on writing in the scripts of the Aegean area, particularly Linear B (the original focus of the journal), and also on archaic epic. Further information is available at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwnlON4qzyfoSzcwYVRnekJIUTQ/edit?pli=1 Nestor 40.6 129 September 2013 Future Lectures and Conferences The schedule of the Mycenaean Seminar in Athens has been announced for 2013- 2014. Lectures will be held at the Central Building of the University of Athens (Panepistimiou 30). Speakers and titles will be announced subsequently. 31 October 2013 28 November 2013 19 December 2013 29 January 2014 20 February 2014 27 March 2014 30 April 2014 29 May 2014 On 17-18 October 2013 a symposium entitled Explaining change in Aegean prehistory will take place at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Further information is available at http://www.archonline.nl/1/post/2013/05/17-18-october- 2013-explaining-change-in-aegean-prehistor.html. The program will be: J. Bintliff, “Long-term developments in southern mainland settlement systems from EH to LH as seen through the lense of regional survey” W. Gauss and M. Lindblom, “Premycenaean pottery shapes of the Central Aegean: A new resource in development” E. Gorogianni, “Social complexity in MBA and LBA Cyclades: A view from Ayia Irini” B. Legarra Herrero, “Tradition and transformation in the burial record of Pre- and Protopalatial Crete” D. J. Pullen, “Changes in feasting practices from EH II into MH” J. B. Rutter, “An alternative approach to MH chronology” S. Voutsaki, “A society in flux: Social change in the MH Argolid” E. Weiberg, “Early Helladic III: a non-monumental but revitalized social arena?” T. Whitelaw, “Urbanism in the prehistoric southern Aegean: a comparative perspective on scale, complexity and integration” C. W. Wiersma, “Building the Bronze Age. Architectural and social change on the Greek mainland from EH III to LH I” On 24-25 October 2013 an international workshop entitled How long is a century? Late Minoan IIIB pottery: Relative chronology and regional differences will take place in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Further information is available at http://www.uclouvain.be/432969.html. The program will be: C. Langohr, “Introduction: Late Minoan IIIB pottery at Malia and Sissi: assessing local ceramic sequence, regional traditions, and interaction networks” B. Hallager, “The LM IIIB settlements at Khania” E. Hatzaki, “Knossos Little Palace North in a Knossian and Cretan context: the LM III stratigraphical, architectural, and ceramic sequence” J. Rutter, “Late Minoan IIIB at Kommos: an abundance of deposits, a dearth of clear sub- phases, and probably a gradual desertion of the site “ A. L. D’Agata, “Aghia Triada in LM IIIB: A ceremonial center of Late Minoan III Crete” F. Nezeri, “The ‘Armenoi workshop’: Local ceramic sequence and regional tradition from the LM III Cemetery at Armenoi Rethymnon” T. Cunningham, “Palaikastro Period XVI: the settlement and its ceramics in LM IIIB” A. Smith, “Pottery from the Late Minoan III cemetery at Myrsini Aspropilia” Nestor 40.6 130 September 2013 A. Kanta, Historical pointers from new evidence. The situation in central Crete during LM IIIB” On 11-13 November 2013 The 18th International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT 18 2013) will be held in Vienna. Further information is available at http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at/. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include: I. Trinks and A. Vlachopoulos, “3D digital documentation of the ancient town of Akrotiri on Thera/Santorini” N. Albertini, A. M. Jasink, and B. Montecchi, “Digital acquisition and modeling of the Minoan seals and sealings kept in two Italian museums” L. Bombardieri and A. M. Jasink, “SHERD (Secure Heritage, Exhibition, Research and Didactics). Towards a DigiDactic Museum” G. Dionisio and P. Kruklidis, “The Trojan War myth as a didactic project: Innovative proposals for the understanding of the history” On 20-23 November 2013 the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) will take place in Baltimore, MD. Contact and registration information, a full program, and