Journée d'étude PRALIM POMEDOR: Pratiques alimentaires en Méditerranée orientale antique tardive et médiévale admin_1
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Start date and time
Friday, 8 November 2013 - 2:00pm

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During this meeting, co-organized with the theme PRALIM of the "Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée" in Lyon, members of the POMEDOR network will present different aspects of food and foodways in the late Roman and medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Middle-East:

Program

International conference about food heritage : new appetites, new mythologies ywaksman
Start date and time
Friday, 14 March 2014
End date and time
Saturday, 15 March 2014

Questions related to the POMEDOR project include food identity and patrimonial values. The symposium will examine how food heritage takes part in culinary productions, exchanges and circulation. What are transfers and mixing? which representations and mythologies are involved in new desires ?

http://www.sciences-patrimoine.org/index.php/actualite/items/appel-a-contributions-colloque-international-le-patrimoine-en-bouche.html

A new member

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A new member
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Jacques Burlot recently joined the POMEDOR team, he will be looking at the technological features of ceramics (especially the associations body-slip-glaze) and at their diffusion in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean.

Welcome Jacques!

POMEDOR 2nd sampling campaign, Turkey June 2013

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POMEDOR 2nd sampling campaign, Turkey June 2013
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Example of Port-Saint-Symeon Ware found in Beirut
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Example of Port-Saint-Symeon Ware found in Beirut
Start date and time
Sunday, 16 June 2013
End date and time
Thursday, 27 June 2013
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Bilkent University
Ankara

Turkey

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Y. Waksman and C. Brun will be working on ceramic material from the excavations at Kinet Höyük, directed by Marie-Henriette Gates (Bilkent University, Ankara) and by Scott Reford (Koç University, Istanbul) for its medieval part, and at Hisn al Tinat, directed by Asa Eger (University of North Carolina, Greensboro).

Dietary habits session, conference 'Héritages arabo-islamiques dans l'Europe méditerranéenne'

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Start date and time
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
End date and time
Saturday, 14 September 2013

The international conference « Héritages arabo-islamiques dans l'Europe méditerranéenne - Archéologie, histoire, anthropologie » (September 11-14 2013,  Marseilles (France), Villa Méditerranée and MuCEM), organized by the "Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives" (INRAP) together with Marseille-Provence 2013-Capitale européenne d

'Akko I. The 1991-1998 Excavations. The Crusader-Period Pottery ywaksman

The new reference book by Edna J. Stern about Crusader pottery from Acre, and more generally from the Crusader states.

In 2 volumes

2nd POMEDOR meeting, Nicosia May 13th admin_1
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Start date and time
13 May 2013

This second meeting brought together members of the core POMEDOR group together with new members of the network, especially Cypriot and other colleagues working on Cyprus. We were welcomed at the Leventis municipal Museum of Nicosia by its Director Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi.

GMPCA PhD prize won by a member of the POMEDOR network

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Charlène Bouchaud, a member of the POMEDOR network, won a prize for her PhD thesis in archaeobotanics entitled "Paysages et pratiques d’exploitation des ressources végétales en milieux semi-aride et aride dans le sud du Proche-Orient : Approche archéobotanique des périodes antique et islamique (IVe siècle av. J.-C. – XVIe siècle ap. J.-C.)" defended at the University of Paris 1 "Panthéon-Sorbonne" in 2012.