This international workshop aims at promoting archaeological and archaeometric approaches to Islamic-period sites, based especially on finds from recent excavations in Iran and the Caucasus.
It will take place at the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon on 11 May 2023
We are happy to announce the final publication of the Bilkent University's excavations of the Medieval layers at Kinet Höyük (Türkiye), edited by Scott Redford. It contains chapters about the ceramological, archaeobotanical and archaeozoological studies of the site.
LRCW 8 - King Theoderic and the Transformations of the Mediterranean Sea. Production and Trade in Late Roman World
The 8th International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry (LRCW 8) will be held in Ravenna (20th-24th April 2026). The conference will be organized by the University of Bologna, the Foundation Flaminia and the Foundation Ravennantica, with the patronage of the Municipality of Ravenna.
The International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East has been organised since 1998 by the scientific community of scholars working on and in the Near East. It is an exceptional forum for dialogue and scientific exchanges between all colleagues involved in the study of the Ancient Near East.
The International Congresses on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) are organized every two years by the scientific community of scholars working on and in the Near East and studying therein cognitive, material and environmental evidence from the most remote phases until the Islamic period within a multidisciplinary approach.
The 13th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East will take place from 22 to 26 May 2023 at University of Copenhagen, Southern Campus.
This research workshop of the Israel Science Foundation was organized by Judith Bronstein (Haifa University), Lisa Yehuda (Tel Aviv University) and POMEDOR member Edna Stern (Israel Antiquities Authority) in the framework of their ISF project.
The program proposed talks by several other POMEDOR members, and included a great visit of the emblematic site of Saint-Jean d'Acre, guided by the very archaeologists who excavated large parts of the Crusader city and studied its food-related stuctures and material culture (E. Stern, E.J. Stern, L. Yehuda).
... shows, among other artifacts, some of the replicas of Byzantine pottery manufactured by the potter Jean-Jacques Dubernard for the POMEDOR project (see the photos of the POMEDOR conference dinner).
It should be visible, Covid forbids, at the Gallo-Roman Museum of Saint-Romain-en-Gal (France) until 15th August 2021.
... for I. Teslenko in the framework of the "PAUSE" program, starting 1rst April 2021.
Iryna Teslenko will be hosted by the "Archaeology & Archaeometry" laboratory in Lyon (CNRS UMR5138) during 6 months to carry out her research project "Northern Black Sea from Late Byzantine till Ottoman times: Transformation of Material Culture in a Changing World".
The series of conferences "Jean Pouilloux" organized by the "Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée" (Lyon, France) present results of academic research to a wide audience.
The conference of March 17th 2021, "Chalcis, un hub maritime médiéval en Égée", is proposed by Yona Waksman.
It will be in French and accessible by zoom. Registration is free and mandatory.
Abstract and further information on the Jean Pouilloux conferences
The international conference "Ceramics from Islamic Lands" (initially planned 3-5 December 2020) is organised at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, by Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A) and Leslee Michelsen (Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art).