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Nestor Nestor Volume 42 Issue 6 September 2015 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 Editors: Eleni Androulaki, http://classics.uc.edu/nestor Maura Brennan [email protected] COMMUNICATIONS From the Editors Please note the new email address for Nestor in the masthead: [email protected]. Grants and Fellowships On 1 November 2015 applications are due to the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) for 2016 New or Renewal Research Grants, the Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete (SCEC) Librarian Fellowship, the SCEC Petrography Internship, Six-Week Research Grants at INSTAP SCEC, and the Petrography Internship 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 should be submitted via e-mail as MS WORD or PDF documents or in two hard copies. Calls for Papers On 1 September 2015 abstracts (150-200 words) are due for the conference 22nd Neolithic Seminar: Modelling the Processes of Neolithisation, to be held on 6-7 November 2015 by the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The Neolithic Seminar proceedings are published in the Documenta Praehistorica international journal (numbers XXX-XLI are available at http://revije.ff.uni- lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica). Further information is available at http://www.ff.uni- lj.si/arheologija/1/Dejavnosti/Konference-in-posveti/Neolithic-seminars.aspx. On 1 September 2015 abstracts (300 words maximum) are due for the conference Feminism and Classics VII: Visions, to be held on 19-22 May 2016 at the University of Washington. Further information is available at https://classics.washington.edu/news/2015/06/19/visions-feminism-and-classics-vii. On 7 September 2015 proposals for sessions, roundtables, and workshops are due for the 44th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2016): Exploring Oceans of Data, to be held on 29 March-2 April 2016 in Oslo, Norway. On 18 October 2015 abstracts are due for papers or posters. Further information is available at http://caaconference.org/. On 30 September 2015 expressions of interest (to be indicated by filling out the survey Nestor 42.6 138 September 2015 at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ST9QMLD) are due for a Commemorative Symposium in honor of Professor Oliver Rackham, to be held on 13-14 August 2016 at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Further information is available at http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/seminars/2016-08-13. On 15 October 2015 detailed abstracts (500 words specifying methodology and main results) for 20-minute papers or posters are due for the 4th Perspectives in Classical Archaeology 2015 (PeClA 2015) Postgraduate Conference. From Elites to the Others: Degrees of Visibility, to be held on 10-11 December 2015 at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Further information is available at http://www.arup.cas.cz/wp- content/uploads/2015/06/PeKlA-2015_CFP_final.pdf. On 31 October 2015 titles and abstracts (250 words) for papers or posters are due for the conference In Poseidons Realm XXI: Underwater archaeology - interdisciplinary approaches and technical innovations, to be held on 22-24 April 2016 in Dresden, Germany. Conference papers will be published in Skyllis. Further information is available at http://www.deguwa.org/. On 31 October 2015 abstracts for posters or papers are due for the 2016 Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA 2016): Land, Sea and Sky in the Near East, to be held on 6-8 January 2016 at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter. Further information is available at http://www.banea2016.org/. On 27 November 2015 submissions for papers are due for the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford (GAO) Annual Conference, to be held on 12-13 March 2016 in Oxford. The conference will focus on the multidimensional ways in which humans have interacted with their natural environment in prehistoric and historic times. Further information is available from [email protected]. On 31 December 2015 article submissions are due for volume XIX (2016) of Adalya, the annual refereed journal of Adalya, Suna – İnan Kıraç Akdeniz Medeniyetleri Araştırma Enstitüsü’nün (AKMED). The scope of the journal is the research, study, documentation, conservation, and interpretation of the relationships between the cultures of the Mediterranean Sea in the fields of history, archaeology, and other related disciplines, especially the geography determined as the “entire Anatolian Mediterranean”, namely, Lycia, Pamphylia, Cilicia, and Pisidia. Further information is available at http://www.akmedadalya.com/index_en.php. Future Lectures and Conferences On 2-5 September 2015 the 21st Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA AM 2015) will be held in Glasgow, Scotland. Further information is available at http://www.e-a-a.org/ or http://eaaglasgow2015.com/. Papers and posters of interest to Nestor readers will include: P. Ramirez Valiente, “Were Mycenaeans living abroad? Anthropological approaches in the study of cross-cultural trade between Central and Eastern Mediterranean” K. Kostanti, “‘Missing infants’. Giving life to aspects of childhood in Mycenaean Greece via intramural burials” N. Calliauw, “What it means to be young in Bronze Age Crete” Nestor 42.6 139 September 2015 B. Tibbetts, “Perinatal Death and Cultural Buffering in a Neolithic Community: Case study of a neonatal individual from Çatalhöyük” P. Mylona, J. Wattez, and J. Vigne, “Geoarchaeological approach on PPNA site of Klimonas in Cyprus: micromorphological analysis of construction techniques and the use of space” L. Bombardieri, M. Amadio, and F. Dolcetti, “Entry and Exit Strategies. Security and control systems at Middle Bronze Age industrial site of Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou (Cyprus)” M. Toffolo, “An integrative approach to the study of Iron Age living surfaces at Ashkelon, Israel: the macro and microscopic archaeological records” M. Lorenzon, “Macroscopic observations on Minoan earthen constructions” S. Demesticha and A. Knapp, “Maritime Transport Containers in the Bronze-Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean: Introduction” P. Day and D. Wilson, “Dawn of the Amphora: The Emergence of Maritime Transport Containers in the Early Bronze Age Aegean” R. Martin, “The Development of Canaanite and Phoenician Style Maritime Transport Containers (MTCs) and Their Role in Reconstructing Maritime Exchange Networks” M. Artzy, “The Maritime Transport Amphorae from Tell Abu Hawam” H. Haskell, “Seaborne Maritime Transport Containers from the Beginning: Transport Stirrup Jars” E. Kardamaki, P. Day, M. Tenconi, and A. Papadimitriou, “Maritime Transport Containers in Late Bronze Age Tiryns” C. Cateloy, “Trade and Capacity Study in Eastern Mediterranean: The First Amphorae from Coastal Levant” C. Monroe, “Measure for measure: connecting text to material through Late Bronze Age shipping jars” A. Gilboa, P. Waiman-Barak, and R. Jones, “On the Origin of Phoenician Transport Jars at Iron Age Kommos, Crete: A Diachronic View” J. Hilditch, M. Gori, and M. Betelli, “Round and round it goes (or evolution of the revolution in ceramic production): the potter’s wheel in the ancient Mediterranean” V. Roux and J. Baldi, “The invention of the potter’s wheel: conditions and consequences in terms of diffusion” M. Türkteki, “When the wheels started to turn in western Anatolia: The early use of potter’s wheel in the Anatolian peninsula” M. Choleva, “Assessing the use of the potter’s wheel in the EBA Aegean: The techno- morphological pottery types as indicators of the craft knowledge” I. Berg, “To throw or not to throw: The utilisation of the potter’s wheel in prehistoric Greece” E. Kiriatzi and S. Andreou, “The introduction of the potter’s wheel in the north-western Aegean: Exploring ceramic technological innovation in the contexts of local social realities and inter-Aegean interactions” M. Gori and T. Krapf, “ From the hub to the wheel’s rim. The adoption of potter’s wheel in the south-western Balkans” B. Dimova, “The adoption of the potter’s wheel in Thrace: Models and evidence” S. Rückl, “Deconstructing the potter’s wheel: Investigating ceramic technology in Early Iron Age Greece through macro-trace analysis” E. Weiberg, “The rise and fall of palatial societies: Synchronous diversity in Late Bronze Age Aegean” L. Kvapil, “Growth and Change in the Prehistoric Landscape: The Mycenaean Terraces of Kalamianos” V. Antoniadis, “Scarab in a jar: Egyptian and hybrised amulets in Early Iron Age Knossian and Tyrian funerary context” Nestor 42.6 140 September 2015 F. Heil, “Cyprus in the Bronze Age - A ‘Cultural Conglomerate?’” A. Cinquatti, “Conceptualizing hybridization: the case of the iconography of the Mistress of Animals in the Eastern Mediterranean of the 2nd millennium B.C” N. Kuch, “The transformation of Taweret into the Minoan Genius - Conceptualizing hybridity and alterity” T. Silva, D. Urem-Kotsou, K. Kotsakis, A. Chondrogianni-Metoki, and S. Kotsos, “What Others Can See: variability, style, and community in Late Neolithic Northern Greece” E. Miller Bonney, “Moving Beyond Myth” D. Kriga, “Was the Late Cycladic I settlement of Akrotiri (Thera) a colony of Crete or was it an independent urban centre of the Aegean? Towards an interpretation
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