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Electronic News and Notices The following sites will be of immediate interest (enter the addresses exactly as they appear): http://www.duke.edu/web/jyounger/kapat97.html -- the 1997 version of John Younger's list of new archaeological Web sites of Aegean and Classical interest. http://www.uncg.edu/~jssoles/Mochlos/first.html -- a new Web site with information about the Greek- American excavation project at Mochlos in eastern Crete. http://stream.blg.uc.edu/nestor/nsearch.html -- we repeat here the Web address for the NESTOR searchable bibliographical database and hope that NESTOR subscribers are finding it of use. Past Lectures and Conferences Dr. Fanouria Dakoronia lectured at the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium at the Institute of Fine Arts on March 6, 1997, presenting "Mycenaean East Lokris: Warships and Sea Battles Depicted on Kraters and Other Discoveries." On February 21-23, 1997 the University of Edinburgh hosted the Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology. Papers of interest to NESTOR readers included: E. Blake, "From the Mundane to the Sacred: Miniature Nuraghi of Sardinia." C. Gillis, "The Question of Status and Prestige in the Aegean Late Bronze Age: The Smith." L. Preston, "Mortuary Practices at Knossos from Late Minoan I-IIIB." E. Baboula, "Metalwork in the Late Minoan Graves." C. Hatzimichael, "Administrative Practices and Regional Patterns in Neopalatial Crete." E. Loughlin, "The Representation of Bull's Heads and Bucrania in Minoan Art." P. Glesson, "The Archaeological Evidence for Ritual Dining in Bronze Age Crete." J. Murphy, "Rituals, Gradations, Transformations: Rites of Passage in the Prepalatial Tombs of Crete." E. Ribeiro, "Mellow Yellow: Hallucinogens in Late Bronze Age Thera." S. Wells, "Late Bronze Age Helladic Jewellery: A Question of Gender Usage." G. Nakou, "Body Politics in the Early Bronze Age Cyclades." H. Hall, "Rituals in the Cretan Neolithic." A. Townsend, "The Silent Language of PPNB Human Imagery from the Levant." E. Hitsiou, "An Assessment of Pottery Production and Exchange Patterns in Late Neolithic Makrygialos (Macedonia) Greece." S. Koloc, "The Early Bronze Age Pottery in NW Turkey in the Light of the Results of a Survey around the Marmara Sea." A. Schachner, "The 2nd Millenium in NW Anatolia and the Problem of Grey Minyan Ware in the Light of the Results of a Survey in the Hinterland of the Troad." A. Bailey, "The Potters' Marks of Phylakopi." G. Mortzou, "Greek Mesolithic in Context." M. Sevetoglu, "Prehistoric Settlement Sites Survey in North Cyprus." D. Papaconstantinou, "Identifying Domestic Space in the Neolithic Eastern Mediterranean: Method and Theory in Spatial Studies." S. Souvatzi, "The Neolithic Household in Greece: Space and Time in the Settlement of Sesklo, Thessaly." A. Kapetanios, "Pens, Households and Fences: Land and Animals in the Social Context of the Community on the Island of Ikaria, Greece." T. Kieley, "Thoughts on the Topography of Bronze Age Cyprus." V. Batten, "Hidden History: Settlement Landscapes of Prehistoric Crete." V. Buck, "Re-evaluation of Archaeoseismic Methodology." J. Fichtner, "Construction of Open & Closed Conduits in LBA Crete/Mainland Greece." C. Murphy, "Regional Variation in the Architecture of Minoan Neopalatial Crete." E. Parisinou, "Illumination Practices in Early Greece, from the End of the Mycenaean World until the Beginning of Archaism." H. Boman, "Movement in Space: A Methodological Perspective." A. Baysal, "Preliminary Work on Çatal Höyük Ground Stones." D. Papagianni, "Flint Technology in Late Neolithic Settlements in Cyprus." K. Aelveby, "Lithic Industries in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean: Changes in Later Prehistory." E. Vardaki, "A Study of Pastoralism in Minoan and Modern Crete." E. Ioannidou, "Understanding the Economy of Mycenaean Period in Northern Greece." S. Van Lokeren, "A Reconstruction of the Late Bronze Age Copper Smelting Industry on Cyprus." M. Kayafa, "The Origin of Metals from the Bronze Age Site of Nichoria, Peloponnese." P. Voilas, "Acculturation Processes in Middle-Late 3rd Millenium Cyprus." I. Berg, "The Minoanisation of the Southern Aegean: A Comparative Approach to Ceramic Assemblages." S. Antoniadou, "The Role of Trade in Social Formation in Late Bronze Age Cyprus." F. DeMita, "Alternative Archaeologies of Late Bronze Age: A Post-Colonial Perspective." A. Turgel, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Archaeology and Cypriot Identity." posters of interest: K. Bichta, "Akrotiri (Thera) and the East Mediterranean World." N. Hamilton, "Gender as a Structuring Structure: An Investigation of Early Settled Cultures of Cyprus and Anatolia." A. Karytinos, "Pre-Palatial Sealstones from Archanes-Phourni, Crete: Prestige Items in the Period before the First Palaces." A. Krahtopoulou, "Holocene Environmental Reconstruction of Northern Pieria, Southern Macedonia, Greece." J. Nicholson, "Phytolith Analysis from Israel, Cyprus and Jordan 5th-3rd Millenium B.C." S. Triantaphyllou, "Health Status of Prehistoric Cemetery Populations from Northern Greece." N. Wardle, "Mycenaean Acculturation." The Annual Yohanan Aharoni Memorial Conference took place on March 20, 1997 at Tel Aviv University. Scheduled papers on the topic "New Inscriptions from the Biblical Period" included: W. Horowitz, "Babylonian Mathematics in Cuneiform - The New Tablet from Hazor." M. Finkelstein and A. Uchitel, "The Aegean Inscription from Lachish." A. Lemaire, "The Tell Dan Stela as Royal Historiography." N. Naman, "The Tell Dan Inscription in Light of History." Y. Beit-Aryeh, "The ayin-shin-resh-taw inscription from Horvat Uzzah." J. Naveh and S. Gitin, "A Royal Dedicatory Inscription from Eqron." Y. Ephal, "The Philistinian (sic!) Entity." Please note that all papers will be presented in Hebrew, except for A. Lemaire's. BIBLIOGRAPHY Abbreviations used in this issue: Kommos I.2 Shaw, Joseph W., and Maria C. Shaw, eds. 1996. §970167 Kommos: An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete. Vol. I: The Kommos Region and Houses of the Minoan Town. Part 2: The Minoan Hilltop and Hillside Houses. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Ras Shamra-Ougarit XI Yon, Marguerite, Maurice Sznycer, and Pierre §970183 Bordreuil, eds. 1995. Ras Shamra-Ougarit XI. Le pays d'Ougarit autour de 1200 av. J.-C.: Histoire et archéologie. Actes du Colloque International Paris, 28 juin - 1er juillet 1993. Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations. ARTICLES AND BOOKS Abou Assaf, Ali 1995. “Ougarit et les relations commerciales.” Pp. 73-75 in Ras Shamra- §970090 Ougarit XI. Ahituv, Shmuel 1996. “Sources for the Study of the Egyptian-Canaanite Border §970091 Administration.” IEJ 46:219-224. Amiet, Pierre 1995. “Les sceaux-cylindres de Ras Shamra au IIe millénaire.” Pp. 239-244 §970092 in Ras Shamra-Ougarit XI. Arnaud, Daniel 1996. “Le fœtus et les dieux au Proche-Orient sémitique ancien.” RHR §970093 213:123-142. Astour, Michael C. 1995. “La topographie du royaume d'Ougarit.” Pp. 55-71 in Ras §970094 Shamra-Ougarit XI. Bachechi, L., P.-F. Fabri, and F. Mallegni 1997. “An Arrow-Caused Lesion in a Late Upper §970095 Palaeolithic Human Pelvis.” CurrAnthr 38:135-140. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Daniella E. 1997. “Neolithic Shell Bead Production in Sinai.” JAS 24:97- §970096 111. Bentley, Gillian R. 1996. “How Did Prehistoric Women Bear 'Man the Hunter'? §970097 Reconstructing Fertility from the Archaeological Record.” Pp. 23-51 in Gender and Archaeology, edited by Rita P. Wright. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Ben-Tor, Amnon 1996. “Tel Hazor, 1996.” IEJ 46:262-268. §970098 Bordreuil, Pierre, and Dennis Pardee 1995. “L'épigraphie ougaritique: 1973-1993.” Pp. 27- §970099 32 in Ras Shamra-Ougarit XI. Brixhe, Claude 1996. Phonétique et phonologie du grec ancien I: Quelques grandes §970100 questions. Bibliothèque des cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain 82, Louvain-La-Neuve: Peeters. Brönner, Melitta 1996. “Die Base-Ring Gefäße aus der Sammlung zyprischer Altertümer.” §970101 Acta Praehistoria et Archaeologica 28:17-39. Bunimovitz, Shlomo, and Zvi Lederman 1997. “Beth Shemesh: Culture Conflict on Judah's §970102 Frontier.” Biblical Archaeology Review 23:42-49. Calinescu, Adriana, ed. 1996. Ancient Jewelry and Archaeology. Bloomington: Indiana §970103 University Press. Callot, Olivier, and Marguerite Yon 1995. “Urbanisme et architecture.” Pp. 155-168 in Ras §970104 Shamra-Ougarit XI. Caubet, Annie, and Valérie Matoïan 1995. “Ougarit et l'Égée.” Pp. 99-112 in Ras Shamra- §970105 Ougarit XI. Church, Tim 1994. Lithic Resource Studies: A Sourcebook for Archaeologists, contributions §970106 by J. E. Francis and C. E. Haury. Lithic Technology Special Publications 3, Tulsa, OK: Department of Anthropology, University of Tulsa. Dabney, Mary K., Katherine A. Schwab, Maria C. Shaw, John Bennet, Helène Whittaker, §970107 David S. Reese, Olga H. Krzyszkowska, and Catherine Sease 1996. “Catalogue of Miscellaneous Finds.” Pp. 243-377 in Kommos I.2. Dakoronia, Phanouria, Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy, and Agnes Sakellariou, eds. 1996. Kleinere §970108 greichische Sammlungen: Die Siegel aus der Nekropole von Elatia-Alonaki. Corpus