A lively 2018 edition...

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A lively 2018 edition...
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The 2018 national training program attendees, holding replicas of Byzantine potteries
in front of the "Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée" in Lyon (photo Y. Rezkallah)

of the national training program "Archaeological and Archaeometric Approaches to Ceramics: Byzantine World and Medieval Middle-East" gathered in Lyon 19 participants of Syrian, Iranian, Algerian, Italian and ... French nationality, coming from all over France, as well as from Beyrouth and Florence.

The training included both methodological approaches to ceramics studies, focusing especially on analytical ones (fabrics, petrographic and chemical analysis for provenance and technology studies, residues analysis for studies of contents and uses...), and courses on Byzantine and Eastern Mediterranean medieval pottery, including hands-on on sherds and observations under the binocular, supplemented with replicas and 3D models.

Food experience in a typical Lyonnese restaurant was not forgotten! (photo Y. Rezkallah)

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Training program "Archaeological and Archaeometric Approaches to Ceramics: Byzantine World and Medieval Middle-East"

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Training program "Archaeological and Archaeometric Approaches to Ceramics: Byzantine World and Medieval Middle-East"
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Replicas of Byzantine ceramics manufactured by potter Jean-Jacques Dubernard
Start date and time
Monday, 28 May 2018
End date and time
Friday, 1 June 2018
Location

Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée

7 rue Raulin

69007
Lyon

France

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The training program "Archaeological and Archaeometric Approaches to Ceramics", labeled "National Training Action" (Action Nationale de Formation) by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), will take place in Lyon on 28 May - 1rst June 2018. It proposes researchers and students both a methodological overview and an introduction to Byzantine and other medieval Eastern Mediterranean pottery. Practical training is proposed with the handling of sherds and the observation of fabrics. Archaeological sherds are complemented by replicas and 3D models of "best examples" from reference collections (Athens Agora, Museum and Ephorates of Thebes and Chalcis, etc.).
The course presents the latest results of research carried out in the framework of the POMEDOR project.

Program

Poster

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Information: yona.waksman@mom.fr

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Workshop "Alimentation méditerranéenne" at the MUCEM, Marseille

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Start date and time
Monday, 19 March 2018
End date and time
Tuesday, 20 March 2018

A new permanent exhibition focusing on Mediterranean food and foodways will be proposed at the MUCEM museum in Marseilles from 2020 onwards.

The workshop "Mediterranean food, historical analyses and museum issues" is organized in this perspective.

 

Further information and list of participants are available on the MUCEM website, free registration at i2mp@mucem.org

Researcher position "Human diet of societies" 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 "Human diet of societies" ("Alimentation des sociétés").

NB: The section where this position is opened is mainly concerned with prehistoric and protohistoric societies (section 31), rather than with later (roman and medieval) ones.

12th International Congress on Medieval & Modern Period Mediterranean Ceramics

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Start date and time
21 October 2018
End date and time
Saturday, 27 October 2018

The 12th AIECM3 conference will take place in Athens on 21rst - 27th October 2018.

The Congress is organized by the Department of Archaeology and the History of Art of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens with the participation of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Institute of Historical Research), the French School at Athens and the Centre for the Study of Modern Ceramics (G. Psaropoulos family Foundation).
In the framework of the Congress, exhibitions of Medieval and Modern Ceramics and workshops will be organized.

PhD defence Y. Bağcı "Coloured Ceramics of the Caliphs: A New Look at the Abbasid Pottery Finds of from the Old Gözlükule Excavations at Tarsus" ywaksman
PhD defence Y. Bağcı "Coloured Ceramics of the Caliphs: A New Look at the Abbasid Pottery Finds of from the Old Gözlükule Excavations at Tarsus"
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Start date and time
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Location

Leiden University, Academy Building

Rapenburg 73

Leiden

Netherlands

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Yasemin Bağcı will defend her PhD thesis, carried out under the supervision of Joanita Vroom, on November 29th 2017:

"Coloured Ceramics of the Caliphs: A New Look at the Abbasid Pottery Finds of from the Old Gözlükule Excavations at Tarsus"

Although the medieval ceramic corpus of the Gözlükule project was found in the 1930s, it was only published in a brief article in the 1940s. This PhD research aims to present and assess the medieval pottery assemblage recovered on the mound of  Gözlükule, Tarsus with an integrated approach, combining the evidence of pottery and other research carried on the medieval eastern Mediterranean in order to understand questions of production and consumption and the socio-economic and cultural dimensions of material culture.

(from Y. Bağcı webpage)

See also the Tarsus page of Joanita's VIDI project and the POMEDOR sites page

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I contenitori da trasporto alto-medievali e medievali (VIII-XII secolo). Centri produttori, contenuti, reti di scambio

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Start date and time
Thursday, 16 November 2017
End date and time
Saturday, 18 November 2017

This conference, in memoriam Fabiola Ardizzone, will present different aspects of production and trade of medieval amphorae. It is organized by the Universities of Rome “Tor Vergata” and of Venice "Ca’ Foscari", the French School at Rome, the ERC project “SICTRANSIT” and the AIECM3 association.

Several POMEDOR members will participate:

PhD defence J. Burlot "First Productions of Turkish Ceramics in Western Anatolia: Contextualisation and Technical Studies"

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PhD defence J. Burlot "First Productions of Turkish Ceramics in Western Anatolia: Contextualisation and Technical Studies"
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Photo under the binocular microscope of a section of "Miletus Ware", showing the layers of body, slip,
and of glaze coloured with cobalt; dimension of the frame 1,4 x 1,1 mm (photo J. Burlot)
Start date and time
Monday, 11 September 2017 - 2:30pm
Location

Université Lyon 2
Lyon

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Jacques Burlot will defend his PhD thesis, carried out under the direction of Y. Waksman and A. Desbat, in Lyon on September 11th 2017:

"First Productions of Turkish Ceramics in Western Anatolia: Contextualisation and Technical Studies"

Jacques' study contributed to the POMEDOR project through research on slips and glazes of Late Byzantine and Early Turkish pottery.

Defence announcement

Abstract of the PhD

Congratulations to Jacques!
by the president of the jury, on behalf of all the members (photo S. Shabo)

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The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis

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A.M.W. Hunt (ed.)
The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis
Oxford University Press, 2017

presents methodologies used in the POMEDOR project, such as organic residues analysis, petrographic and chemical analysis. The latter is presented by S.Y. Waksman in a contribution including medieval Beirut as a case study, entitled "Provenance" Studies: Productions and Compositional Groups ". Beirut was one of the sites investigated within the framework of the POMEDOR project, building on previous research.

 

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