Thoughtful, provocative and - most importantly - entertaining panel with @josephinequinn.bsky.social Alastair Blanshard, Salvatore Settis, Suzanne Marchand & Tom Harrison to end the first day of our British Museum/ @ics.bsky.social conference, “The Ancient Mediterranean and the British Museum”

Listen to ICS Senior Lecturer, Dr Emlyn Dodd on Australian national radio (ABC Evening show with Renee Krosch) discussing recent research on a new history of ancient Italian olive cultivation and oil production: (3:11 on): shorturl.at/KkoPp And read the published research: shorturl.at/rRZD6

Looking forward to giving the Peter Sadler #Archaeology Lecture at the University of Kent this week, talking about our excavations at Falerii Novi 🏛️ 🏺 Thanks to Luke Lavan for the kind invitation to present before we head back into the field this summer.

Call for EOIs in an exciting new initiative by the Bulletin of the @ics.bsky.social (BICS) 🚨 🏺 The Emerging Editors Board is a unique opportunity for ECRs to gain editorial board experience and first-hand insight into the journal publication process. academic.oup.com/bics/pages/c...

Great chat with Renee Krosch on #ABC #Radio Evenings about my recent work on ancient Italian olives and oil! Grateful for the invitation to come on and talk about archaeology and the ancient world on a major national broadcaster. Interview here, from 3:11:00 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Olives have been essential to life in Italy for far longer than we thought! In a new article for @theconversationnz.bsky.social, @emlynkd.bsky.social explores the history of olive cultivation and olive oil production from the Neolithic to the Roman period: https://bit.ly/3M5OSTs @ics.bsky.social

Had a great time writing this piece for @aunz.theconversation.com using my recently published research in the AJA @chicagojournals.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1086/737823). 🫒 READ HERE 👇: doi.org/10.64628/AA....

New research suggests olive trees have been exploited for more than 6,000 years. The first Italian olive oil was produced perhaps 4,000 years ago.

We’ve still got a few open places for this brilliant hands-on mosaic making training event next week at @ics.bsky.social in London! Come along to have fun making, while thinking about ancient/modern practice and research with leading experts Ruaidhri Ryan and Will Wootton. @sas-news.bsky.social

Today we started teaching the first ever co-designed and taught joint MA module between the University of London (ICS/KCL) and British Museum (Greece & Rome)! The module provides hands-on experience in a real-world #museum environment, with half the classes taught behind the scenes at the BM. /1

Looking forward to hosting this joint @ics.bsky.social / @bsrome.bsky.social event with Peter, @christophersmith.bsky.social, @profyarrow.bsky.social and @kathryntempest.bsky.social in a few weeks! ‘Myth, History and Archaeology’ Please do share and come along if in London 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky

The oileries at Syedra are fantastic (and v well preserved!) but to find urban/intramural oil production is not as unusual as this write up states. One only needs to look at the extensive data presented in our 2024 JUA article: doi.org/10.1484/J.JU... greekreporter.com/2025/12/30/a...

🚨PUBLISHED🚨 The #Archaeology of #Olive #Oil Production in #Roman & pre-Roman #Italy 🫒 READ: doi.org/10.1086/737823 ➡️Good data for Neolithic & BA olive exploitation & cultivation ➡️Possible earliest rotary olive crusher in the Med (7th c. BCE) ➡️Roman era oil prod widely & larger-scale across Italy 🧵

Now out, the field report of the 2024 campaign at Falerii Novi! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Looking forward to our next @ics.bsky.social – British Museum seminar with another terrific group of speakers, incl @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social @drmaimusie.bsky.social, Eleanor Newman & Joe Skinner. Register at link below!

Next week! ‘Developing and Leading a Major Project in Classics’ - @ics.bsky.social researcher training event 🏺 Talks & expert contribution from: Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Alex Mullen, Ellen Swift & Corisande Fenwick. 1pm-3pm, 27 Nov Senate House, London INFO+REGISTER: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Great evening speaking to 125 people at the British School at Athens fundraising event! My lecture on all things #Ancient #Greek #wine was accompanied by a fascinating talk and tasting of modern Greek wines by Alix Robinson 🍷🍇 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky

This past week, the archaeology team @stephenkay.bsky.social @emlynkd.bsky.social @levine.bsky.social & Sara Fabbri returned to Paros, Greece, for a second season of geophysical survey.

New fieldwork this week on Paros, #Greece! 🏺 🏛️ Ground-Penetrating Radar survey adjacent to excavations at #Hellenistic and #Roman houses and a sculpture workshop. 3D modelling of structural remains will also tie in with subsurface features captured by radar. /1

Full MA class ready for another year of Wine, Oil and Grain in Greece and Rome! 🍇🍷🫒🌾 🏺 Mediterranean triad…or is it?? After the next 10 weeks of bringing together archaeological, historical and scientific evidence, hopefully the students will be able to tell you

Very happy to be contributing to this event in support of the wonderful @britschoolathens.bsky.social 👏

❗️Our recent work around the #ancient tower at Palaiopyrgos (Paros) is published in JAS Reports 🎉 🏺 We used multi-method #survey & #geophysical prospection to better understand landscapes of #agriculture and production in the rural #Cyclades. READ OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

Somehow managed to have not one, but TWO books published this month! 🎉 Thrilled to see these out: 👉 Vine-growing and Winemaking in the #Roman World (w/ @divali.bsky.social, M.S. Busana) 👉 Between Global and Local: Glocal Refractions in Roman Material Culture and Society (w/ R. Montoya González) /1

Excited to be back in Sydney for the Australian #Archaeological Institute at Athens AGM! I’ll be giving the keynote, "Island Towers and Agricultural Landscapes", reflecting on a decade's worth of work in the #Cyclades 🏺 20th August 2025, University of Sydney. Details: aaia.gr/aaia-2025-an...

🚨 NEW ARTICLE 🚨 We were invited to write for Current Opinion in Food Sciences to review major advancements in #ancient #wine research and the big research questions these methods are helping us to understand 🍷 🏺 w/ @divali.bsky.social Read open access here 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

🍇 Interested in #Wine and #AncientRome? Check out this review of Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology: Scientific Approaches in Roman Contexts ed. by @emlynkd.bsky.social & @divali.bsky.social, reviewed by Anna Meens. doi.org/10.16995/tra...

Extremely productive excavation season at Falerii Novi once again! Some very helpful material coming from the hard work of our @ics.bsky.social @bsrome.bsky.social team 🙌 🏺 #Classicsbluesky

New #podcast episode featuring me, @wmarybeard.bsky.social and Jane Rempel chatting with Nick Groat & Phil Withington all about human interactions with #wine in the #ancient #Mediterranean 🍷🍇 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky 🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/6k40...

Week 2 in Falerii Novi! Digging, documenting and drawing contexts inside the BSR/ICS trench ☀️

In our series 'Meet the Fellows', we get to know our Fellowship. This edition sees Elizabeth Gilkey chat with Senior Lecturer at @ics.bsky.social, @emlynkd.bsky.social. www.sal.org.uk/2025/05/meet...

Join our wonderful @ics.bsky.social community as an Early-Career Research Associate! We have 4 openings tenable 2025-28. 🏛️ formal institutional affiliation+email with ICS, SAS & Uni of London 💰 £500 p.a. research allowance 📚 ICS Library access+mentoring INFO 👉 ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/fello...

A real privilege giving the Australian Archaeological Institute’s annual lecture in #Athens 🏺 🏛️ Wonderful packed-out audience and great discussions following recent work on Paros and a decade of thinking about #ancient #wine and #oil in the Cyclades 🍇🍷

Paperback publication day for Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology with @divali.bsky.social 🎉🎉 only a year after hardcover! 🏺 🍇🍷 Still in full colour throughout and at the bargain price of £22: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/methods-i...

Back staying with one of my favourite balconies in the world at the Australian Archaeological Institute 🙏 🏛️ so many PhD and Postdoc memories here, and now giving the AAIA Annual Lecture 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky

Apply now for our T. B. L. Webster Fellowship! Open to scholars outside the UK, with interests in ancient theatre and performance and its reception OR in classical art and archaeology. £6k stipend. Deadline: 15 May 2025 Full details: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/fellowships/tbl-webster-fellowship

Apply now for our A.D. Trendall Fellowship! Open to scholars outside the UK, with preference given to applicants working ancient Italy and classical art history. £6k stipend. Deadline 15 May 2025 Full details: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/fellowships/a-d-trendall-fellowship

Fantastically productive morning with colleagues working on wine-related material at the British Museum 🍇🍷 🏺 #Classicsbluesky (so-called) psykters galore!

Looking forward to being back in #Athens to give the Australian Archaeological Institute’s annual lecture 🏛️🏺 I’ll be talking about this stunning place among others in ‘Island towers and agricultural landscapes: #ancient #wine & olive oil production in the #Cyclades’ 🍇🍷 7pm, 29 April

We received 300+ applications for the @ics.bsky.social free, online #Phoenician and Punic short courses! 😳 highlighting interest in & need for other #ancient #languages We will accept as many as possible and look to run more when able 🏺 🗃️ #ClassicsBluesky

Excited to contribute to a new effort by The Classical Review to review digital projects in Classics & Archaeology 🏺🏛️ I had the chance to dive into the revamped Sphakia Survey Internet Edition & its longlasting impact on Mediterranean survey archaeology. Read more at bit.ly/43pILj7 🇬🇷

VERY interesting data showing that #science (and I would also guess #humanities) publications are now shared more on #BlueSky than X/Twitter! Promising movements.

Dissertation season is starting 😬 so we are repeating our researcher training event: An Intro to Essential Resources for #Classics & #Archaeology Research 🏺 🗓️ 23 April, 2pm (London, BST) 📍 Online via Zoom Share, especially w/ UG & PG students! Info+Register: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/intro...

We are offering two FREE, online semi-intensive short courses in #Phoenician and Punic #language in April 🏛️ 🏺 Elementary course info: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/eleme... Intermediate course info: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/inter... Share and Apply by 22 March!

#ResearchTraining The ICS are offering two free, online semi-intensive courses in #Phoenician from 15 April - 26 April. Elementary level: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/eleme... Intermediate level: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/inter... Applications close on 22 March

The next ‘Revisiting the #Ancient Mediterranean in the British #Museum’ seminar looks at the display of site-specific material, using the e.g. of temple at #Bassai 🏛️ 🏺 All welcome! Please join for panel & discussion. 🗓️ 26 March, 4pm 📍 Senate House, London REGISTER: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/revis...

Many thanks to Prof.ssa Spagnoli for kindly inviting myself and @stephenkay.bsky.social to talk about Falerii Novi to doctoral researchers and colleagues at the University of Naples Federico II #Archaeology & #Art #History seminar 🏺 cc. @ics.bsky.social @bsrome.bsky.social #Ancientbluesky

For #EpigraphyTuesday tomorrow: Last minute chance to sign up for a training event on 3D Imaging for Epigraphy ics.sas.ac.uk/events/cutti...

As their final research output, one of my students last term constructed an #ancient screw press for #wine or #oil production 🤯 Entirely from scratch & drawing from a rigorous body of #archaeological and literary evidence. THIS is why I encourage creative & critical outputs for coursework! 👏 🏺

Looking forward to giving the University of Manchester #archaeology seminar tomorrow on the ‘sights and sites of ancient winemaking’ 🍇🍷 🏺 #Ancientbluesky 📷 #mosaic depicting grape treading, imperial baths, Minturnae, Italy.