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Volume 43 Issue 7 October 2016 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: Anna Belza http://classics.uc.edu/nestor [email protected] COMMUNICATIONS Grants and Fellowships On 31 January 2017 applications for grants (not normally exceeding £2,000) to assist with the publication of archaeological fieldwork in the Mediterranean world, with possible priority to Bronze Age subjects, are due to the Mediterranean Archaeological Trust. Applicants should complete the application form (downloadable from the MAT web-site: https://sites.google.com/site/medarchtrust/grants), which should be sent by e-mail attachment, to Dr. Jai Clifford-Holmes: [email protected]; in case of difficulty, please contact him on: [email protected]. Calls for Papers On 1 October 2016 abstracts for papers and posters (500 words) are due for the 5th International Postgraduate Conference Perspectives on Classical Archaeology 2016: New Directions in Classical Archaeology (PeClA 2016), to be held on 1-2 December 2016 at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Abstracts should be sent to [email protected]. On 28 October 2016 abstracts for papers and posters (250 words) are due for the 45th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2017): Digital Archaeologies, Material Worlds (Past and Present), to be held on 14-16 March 2017 in Atlanta. Further information is available at http://caaconference.org/. Future Lectures and Conferences The University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of Classical Studies has announced the following schedule of Mycenaean Seminars for 2016-2017, to take place in the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House South Block Ground Floor G22 / 26, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Unless otherwise stated, Mycenaean Seminars begin at 3:30 pm. Further information is available at http://icls.sas.ac.uk/institute/meetingslist/index.html. 19 October 2016: S. Aulsebrook, “Nuances of metal vessel usage in the Mycenaean political world” Nestor 43.7 168 October 2016 9 November 2016: C. Macdonald, “The early Neopalatial palace of Knossos: development and domain” 7 December 2016: O. Dickinson, “The use and abuse of the Ahhiyawa texts” 18 January 2017: S. Ferrara, “The origins of writing in the Aegean” 15 February 2017: P. Halstead, “Two oxen in the Bronze Age: traditional Mediterranean farming and the political economy of Mycenaean palaces” 8 March 2017: Y. Papadatos, “A mountain view of Neopalatial Crete: new evidence from the Ierapetra uplands” 17 May 2017, 5:00 pm: J. Maran, Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture (TBC) The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium has announced the following lectures, to take place at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts, One East 78th Street, NY, New York at 6:30 pm. Interested guests are always welcome; please R.S.V.P. 212-992-5803 or [email protected]. 2 October 2016: E. Hatzaki, “Fluidity and Stasis in the Cityscape of Late Bronze Age Knossos” 18 November 2016: S. R. Stocker and J. L. Davis, “A Prince of Pylos: The Tomb of the Griffin Warrior” 16 December 2016: P. M. Day, “Late Mycenaean Transport Jars and Commodity Movement in Political Context: New evidence from the Argolid” 10 February 2017: P. M. Fischer, “Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus, 1600–1150 BCE: The Rise and Fall of a Trade Metropolis” 24 March 2017: J. Moody, “Veteran and Sacred trees in Modern and Minoan Crete” 21 April 2017: J. Maran, “Tiryns: From the Rise of Its Palace to the Post-Palatial Resurgence” On 10-11 November 2016 a colloquium entitled Zwischen Identitätskonstruktion und Unterweltsvorstellungen: Griechische Gräber und ihr Kontext im Spiegel neuer Funde will be held at the Campus Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include: O. Visyinou, “Attica beyond Athens: 9th – 6th c. BC burials” On 16-19 November 2016 the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) will take place in San Antonio, Texas. Further information is available at http://www.asor.org/am/index.html. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include: S. Martino, “A Quantitative Method for the Creation of Typologies for Qualitatively Described Objects: A Case Study of Prehistoric Figurines from Anatolia and Southeastern Europe” A. Marciniak, “The Late Neolithic Çatalhöyük: After 15 years of Excavations” B. Horejs, “The Way to Regional Identities in Neolithic Western Anatolia” L. Atici, “Emergence and Development of Early Agropastoral Economy on an Island Setting: New Insights from Uğurlu Höyük, Gökçeada, Turkey” S. E. Pilaar Birch, “Neolithization of Europe: Integrating Zooarchaeological and Stable Isotope Evidence from Uğurlu Höyük, Gökçeada, Turkey” C. Schwall, “Interweaving Contacts? Evidence of Intensifying Connectivity during the Middle and Late Chalcolithic Period in Western Anatolia” R. Vandam, “Exploring the Late Prehistoric (8000–2000 B.C.) Remains in the Western Taurus Mountains, Southwestern Turkey: The First Results of the Dereköy Archaeological Survey Project” D. B. Redford, “The Medinet Habu Records of the Foreign Wars of Ramesses III” D. Kahn, “Ramesses III’s Northern Wars against Palestine and the Asiatics” K. L. Younger, “Problems with Philistines in North Syria?” Nestor 43.7 169 October 2016 J. K. Hoffmeier, “The Possible Location of the Sea and Land Battles of the Sea Peoples in North Sinai” S. Wachsmann, “‘Sea Peoples,’ Ships and the Urnfield Culture Connection” A. Maeir, “Excavation Results at Tell es-Safi/Gath and their Implications: An Update for the 2015 and 2016 Seasons” M. Beeler, “The Social Dynamics of Early Helladic Sealing Practices” J. S. Smith, “Seals as Measures of Individual and Group Identity on Late Bronze Age Cyprus” L. Meiberg, “Decorative Motifs on Philistine Pottery and Their Cretan Connections” F. Zangani, “Amarna and Uluburun: Patterns of Exchange in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean” J. White, “Cities in Bronze: Cyprus and Shang” M. Homan, “The Copper Foundation of Social Stratification: Imperial Metal Source Shifts from Oman and Jordan to Cyprus in the Middle Bronze Age” J. Verduci, “Metal Jewelry of the Southern Levant and its Western Neighbors: Surprising Results Concerning Cross-Cultural Influences during the Early Iron Age” A. Simmons, “No Neolithic Is an Island: Cyprus’s Role in the Neolithic Revolution” L. Swantek, “The Emergence of Social Complexity on Cyprus during the Prehistoric Bronze Age: A Small-World Network Approach” A. Donald, “Socio-Political Structure in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Evidence from Glyptic” C. Sauvage, “The Textile Industry at Enkomi” S. Jusseret, “Renewed Excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos (Cyprus): First Results from the 2014–2016 Campaigns” I. Shai, “Two Cypriot Pithoi from Late Bronze Age Tel Burna” G. Bourogiannis, “From Almost Null to Plenty: Evidence for Seaborne Connections in the Southeast Aegean during the Early Iron Age” K. O. Lorentz, “Complex Ancient Knowledge of Human Anatomy: Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Chalcolithic Mortuary Practices in Cyprus” A. Aja, “Ashkelon’s Philistine Cemetery” J. Fu, “Identifying A Philistine Burial Assemblage in Iron IIA–IIB at Ashkelon” S. C. Fox, “The Contextual Study of the Human Skeletal Remains from the Philistine Cemetery at Ashkelon” B. Alex, “Radiocarbon Dating of Human Remains from the Ashkelon Iron Age Cemetery” M. Feldman, “Untangling the Ancestry of the Philistines through Ancient DNA” A.Yasur-Landau, “The Relative and Absolute Chronology of the Kabri Palace and the Chronology of Aegean-Style Wall Paintings in the East” M. Bietak, “Tell el-Dabʿa and Chronology” On 8-9 December 2016 an international workshop entitled Gathered in Death: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives on Collective Burial and Social Organisation will take place at Salle du Sénat Académique, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). Further information is available at http://sites.uclouvain.be/arc-crisis/?p=14703%3E. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include: C. Knüsel, E. Schotsmans, and S. Haddow, “House Societies, Ancestors, and Burials at Neolithic Çatalhöyük: Attempting to Disentangle Collective and Multiple Burials” B. Legarra Herrero, “Collective burials and the creation of communities in the 3rd and 2nd Millennium Mediterranean: Crete and southeast Iberia” N. Papadimitriou and D. Catapoti, “Performing the ‘collective’ in Early Minoan and Early Mycenaean funerals” Nestor 43.7 170 October 2016 On 12-13 December 2016 a conference entitled Οι Αχαιοί στην Ελλάδα και στη Μεγάλη Ελλάδα: νέα ευρήµατα και νέες προοπτικές. Gli Achei in Grecia e in Magna Grecia: nuove scoperte e nuove prospettive will be held at the Πολύκεντρο - Συνεδριακό Κέντρο Αιγίου. Papers of interest to Nestor readers will include: E. Borgna and A. G. Vordos, “Micenei e Achei. Note preliminari sull’occupazione della Trapezà tra la fine dell’età del bronzo e la prima età storica” Β. Αργυρόπουλος, “Ευρήματα των Μυκηναϊκών και των Μέσων Γεωμετρικών χρόνων σε Μεσοελλαδικό κτιστό κιβωτιόσχημο τάφο στην περιοχή των Φαρών. Η ερμηνεία των στοιχείων” Ι. Μόσχος and Φ. Ζ. Αλεξοπούλου, “Η Μυκηναϊκή νεκρόπολη των Πατρών μεταξύ Ανατολής και Δύσης” Ι. Μόσχος, “Πολιτικές και Κοινωνικές εξελιξεις κατά την μετάβαση στους Ιστορικούς χρόνους” Μ. Γκαζής and Κ. Ακτύπη, “Η χρήση του Μυκηναϊκού νεκροταφείου της Βούντενης Πατρών κατά την Πρωτογεωμετρική και τη Γεωμετρική περίοδο” Past Lectures and Conferences

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