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.
This book presents the synthesis of a long-term study of ceramics of the 15th century found in the Ctimea. It is based on the analysis of large volumes of archaeological materials. The author proposes a detailed classification, typology and chronology of ceramics and clarifies some technological features of the local and imported wares. She also focuses on the directions and fluxes of ceramics trade, and on the factors which influenced the development of the local pottery production in late medieval Crimea.
POMEDOR member Edna Stern contributed to the French-Israeli workshop "Methodologies in Medieval Archaeology, New Perspectives".
The program of the 12th International Congress on Medieval & Modern Period Mediterranean Ceramics is online!
It is particularly rich, and we are very happy that a special day will focus on Thebes and Chalkis, and take place there.
Many members of the POMEDOR network will attend and present their work.
The proceedings of the Antalya AIECM3 conference came out, a beautiful publication!
It includes several papers written by members of the POMEDOR network (underlined in the table of contents).
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)
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.
Information: yona.waksman@mom.fr
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.
Yasemin Bağcı will defend her PhD thesis, carried out under the supervision of Joanita Vroom, on November 29th 2017:
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
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:
