Multidisciplinary approaches to food and foodways in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean ywaksman

This volume brings together archaeologists, archaeological scientists and historians contributing different specialisms to an emerging field of research: food and foodways in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean. It presents the output of the POMEDOR project “People, pottery and food in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean” funded by the French National Research Agency. POMEDOR focused on changes in transitional periods, such as the Crusades and the Turkish conquests, as viewed through archaeological and archaeometric studies of pottery.

LRCW7: 7th International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry

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Start date and time
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
End date and time
Saturday, 19 October 2019

The aim of the LRCW Conference series is the presentation and publication of Late Roman pottery (3rd century AD to the end of Antiquity) from the Mediterranean region.
The 7th conference proposed the following sessions:

  • The Western Mediterranean
  • The Eastern Mediterranean
  • Mediterranean Islands in the stream
  • Late Roman Pottery in Hispania
  • Special session: The problem of the 8th century

Presentations by POMEDOR members include:

A lively 2018 edition... ywaksman
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" ywaksman
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

Registration form

Information: yona.waksman@mom.fr

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PhD defence J. Burlot "First Productions of Turkish Ceramics in Western Anatolia: Contextualisation and Technical Studies" ywaksman
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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Medieval MasterChef. Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Eastern Cuisine and Western Foodways

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Available now! - download the book announcement

J. Vroom, Y. Waksman, R. van Oosten (eds.)
Medieval MasterChef. Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Eastern Cuisine and Western Foodways
Brepols, 2017

This book presents a selection of papers of the session 'Medieval MasterChef' we organized in Istanbul in 2014, at the 20th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), together with some later additions.

Fustat II. Fouilles d’Isṭabl ʿAntar. Céramiques d’ensembles des IXe et Xe siècles

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Roland-Pierre Gayraud et Lucy Vallauri
avec la collaboration de Guergana Guionova et Jean-Christophe Tréglia
et la participation de S. Yona Waksman, Claudio Capelli et Roberto Cabella
Fustat II. Fouilles d’Isṭabl ʿAntar. Céramiques d’ensembles des IXe et Xe siècles
FIFAO 75, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Le Caire, 2017
 

Studies of Byzantine amphorae highlight the role of Chalcis again - view and download the 3D model of a Günsenin 3 amphora! ywaksman

Chalcis was identifed as a production center of amphorae types Günsenin 2 and 3 - a prominent one for the latter type. This new result further highlights the role of Chalcis in maritime trade involving both food containers and tablewares, already pointed out by our study of the "MBP" tablewares.

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