GMPCA PhD prize

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The GMPCA is a French association which promotes the development of archaeological sciences - and of pluridisciplinary researches contributing to archaeology in general, connects students and researchers involved in these fields and disseminates related information.

It proposes every 2 years a PhD prize for PhD manuscripts in French or in English.

Apply before January 4th 2020

Olives and olive oil in the Eastern Mediterranean, from antiquity to pre-industrial times

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Τhe book focuses on the study and presentation of olive cultivation and on issues concerning the production, distribution and marketing of olive oil in the Eastern Mediterranean. This geographical area, apart from its roughly similar climatic and environmental features, was defined by the dominant political systems which imposed certain production and marketing practices on the olive and its products.

Coming out soon!

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Coming out soon!
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The volume "Multidisciplinary approaches to food and foodways in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean" will come out this winter.
It contains papers presented at the final conference of the POMEDOR project, as well as the making of and the recipes of the "Byzantine" dinner which was created on the occasion at the Bocuse Institute.

We will keep you posted!

POMEDOR conference “Byzantine” dinner at the Paul Bocuse Institute (Écully, France): guests and students of the “Worldwide Alliance” program, with replicas of Byzantine pottery on the table (above, photo Paul Bocuse Institute); the “Eustathios’ quail pie” with pulses, the output of a collective research by historian Ilias Anagnostakis, food historian Andrew Dalby, cook and archaeologist Sally Grainger and the Bocuse team (below, photo Anemon Productions).
 

Chalcis ou non ? Recontextualiser des plats byzantins conservés dans un musée

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The comparison of chemical compositions of ceramic bodies of nine Byzantine plates kept in the Musée national de céramique, Sèvres, with those of reference archaeological samples enabled us to associate most of the plates to the 12th-13th century production of Chalcis. Two pieces, however, raise the question of authenticity. Geochemical perturbations related to prolonged immersion in a marine environment are also discussed and a specific methodology is proposed.

Online resources made available during the confinement

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Online resources made available during the confinement
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(Source: https://www.outrelivres.fr/ou-trouver-de-la-lecture-en-periode-de-confinement/)

Many of us, all around the world, are confined. To help us continue our research, the librarians of the "Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée" in Lyon regularly informs us about online resources made more accessible. The following link gathers many of them on the Couperin website:

list of online resources made available during confinement

Many thanks to the Couperin contributors, and to the librarians of the "MOM", with special thanks to Marie Chebance!

"Bon courage" to all of you

Best wishes...

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Best wishes...
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... for a happy and creative year 2020!

Researcher position "History and archaeology of materials: Antiquity and Middle-Ages" at the CNRS

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The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) opens permanent researcher positions this year, including one which will be preferably attributed to a specialist in "History and archaeology of materials: Antiquity and Middle-Ages" ("Histoire et archéologie des matériaux : Antiquité et Moyen Âge").

General information
http://www.dgdr.cnrs.fr/drhchercheurs/concoursch/informer/default-fr.htm

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