++ FKA "Alternative Futures" ++ We are pleased to announce a new publication: www.kritischearchaeologie.de/en/current_i.... Cornelius Holtorf kicks off the discussion with a paper titled “Alternative Futures: How Can Cultural Heritage Be Mobilized for Peace Rather than War?”. See also the comments🏺

Delighted to announce that #LEIZA Journal of Archaeology is now accepting submissions! Check out www.leiza.de/forschung/pu... for all information and submit your work anytime at: [email protected] or [email protected] For❓,🖍️ [email protected] @leizarchaeology.bsky.social

Don't forget to join us tomorrow for our online conference on #RomanEconomy and #archaeology in northern #Adriatic Italy! From farming and livestock to food, transport, and consumption—our program covers all. Get the Teams link via registration on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.de/e/economic-i...

New #jobs at @uni-kiel.de within the @clusterroots.bsky.social advertised: one doctoral & two postdoctoral positions. The postdoc positions are for any projects relating to archaeological science and are explicitely looking for for applicants from Africa and Asia: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...

❗Big news ❗ LEIZA Journal of Archaeology, a new #journal of world #archaeology, launches soon, and will be #DiamondOpenAccess, promoting discipline-changing and agenda-setting work & advancing #equity, #accessibility and #impact in #research and #publishing. All info: www.leiza.de/forschung/pu...

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

📺 Streaming tip: Coastal #archaeology & the future of the oceans. What can sunken settlements and ancient coastlines teach us about climate change? Watch @niklashausmann.bsky.social talk, now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/x82KOsN... #VoicesForClimate #LEIZArchaeology

Safe the date! Evening lecture on 12 February 2026 by Rick Schulting @leizarchaeology.bsky.social on an all too timely topic...

Last week, the ArchaeoAdWine closing workshop was held at the University of #Verona. Great to see the many aspects of this pioneering #ancient #wine project in the northern #Adriatic finally coming together so fruitfully, and being enriched by fantastic keynotes. And now on to publication! 🍇 🍷 👏

Archaeologists reveal second-largest Roman olive oil mill in the Roman Empire. phys.org/news/2025-11...

Excited to announce the closing workshop of our multidisciplinary research into the #archaeology of #wine in northern #Adriatic #Italy on Dec 1-2 in Verona! For those interested in participating online, please write [email protected] For a sneak peek, go to: www.archaeoadwine.it 🍇 🍷

Finally out at Peeters: Vine-growing and winemaking in the #Roman World! +640 pages, 30 chapters and 1.6 kg of #ancient #vine and #wine awesomeness 🍇🍷😍, with @emlynkd.bsky.social & Academia Belgica 🙏 Order via the link below or write me for more info: www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?s...

❗New open access paper out with @emlynkd.bsky.social on advances and innovations in ancient wine research, written by invitation for Current Opinion in Food Science 🍇 Proud on this effort to merge #ancient #history and #archaeology with modern #food #science ❗ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🍇 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...

❗ Call for papers ❗ Economic Interactions in the Roman Northern Adriatic. International conference, #Rome, Academia Belgica, May 7-8, 2026 To participate, send an abstract of max. 300 words to [email protected], [email protected] & [email protected] by Sep 30, 2025!

Interested in joining this great session on roads and markets in #antiquity by Federica Riso for the 12th meeting of the Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana in sunny Palermo? Don't hesitate and send in your work to [email protected] ! 🔥https://aisuinternational.org/palermo-2025-home/ 🔥

The glorious paperback edition of our Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology arrives a mere year after its initial publication! Happy & proud of its strong sales 🍇🍷🔥

Honored & excited to have been invited to talk on #ancient wine in big clay jars at this unique #wine historical event by Simbenia, Antonio Arcadu and Domaine Kox at #Dalheim in Luxembourg on May 8! #dolia #qvevri #amphora #pithoi 🍇🍷

Had a nice chat with James Imam for @thetimes.com on the new #vineyard and #winery in #Pompeii. Curious to see how these new #wines, made with ancient vine-growing techniques and clay jar #fermentation, will turn out! 🍇🍷 www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Are you exploring resilience and antifragility in your research through history, archaeology, anthropology, digital humanities or other? Submit your abstract and join this exciting conference at UCLouvain, May 30-31, 2025! Paper proposals should be sent to [email protected] by March 20!

Working #women are frequently attested in the #Roman empire: the funerary stele of Sentia Amarantis depicts the deceased tapping wine from a barrel. She was an inn-keeper and died at the age of 45. The stele was set up by her husband. From Augusta Emerita/Mérida, 3rd c. AD. #ReliefWednesday 🏺

That also means free access to our #Roman #wine in #dolia paper! #archaeology #naturalwine #qvevri #classics 🍷

Another (hopefully last!) round of proofs for our mammoth state of the art in the #archaeology of #Roman #vine and #wine. Should be out early 2025 at Peeters! @emlynkd.bsky.social 💪 😍 🍇 🍷

Less than a year after its publication, a second, more affordable paperback edition of our manual on #ancient #wine #archaeology is now available for preorder at Bloomsbury (out May 2025). Really happy to see that the #book is finding such a large audience! @emlynkd.bsky.social

Cover & proofs are in for our new, massive +660p #roman #wine state of the field at Peeters, edited together with @emlynkd.bsky.social & Maria Stella Busana! 30 chapters by Maureen Carroll, Gloria Olcese, Jean-Pierre Brun, Annalisa Marzano, Tamara Lewit and many more! #classics #archaeology 😍🍾🍷😮💚

Our #Roman #wine research has now reached Switzerland! Very grateful to Angelika Franz and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung for the coverage! 😍 🍷🙏 #archaeology #classics #antiquity #dolia #qvevri #caucasus #Italy www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft...

Wrote a short piece for The Conversation on my recent #Antiquity paper with Paulina Komar on #wine in #Roman #dolia!

Interested in #geophysics? Then apply for this #PhD #summer school at #Veii! Lectures & field training by top specialists in the field, June 18-22, 2024. The €600 fee includes accomodation, meals and local transport. Contact Ugo Fosco for more info! #Archaeology #Classics

Spending some work time in splendid Verona 💙

About one week left to submit your proposals and crazy ideas on winemaking in earthenware jars for our EAA session #804! Deadline is February 8.

About one week left to submit your proposals for our EAA session #909 on integrating data on ancient wine and olive oil presses! Deadline is February 8.

Delighted to share that my Antiquity paper with Paulina Komar on Roman wine fermentation in dolia is now published in FirstView at CambridgeCore! No OA, alas, but I have ten access codes to share, or you can message me for a pdf. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Don't forget to send us your proposals for our EAA session #909 on how to build a brand new database and research network for ancient wine and oil production facilities in the Mediterranean. The deadline is February 8!

Working on the history and/or archaeology of winemaking in earthenware fermentation vessels? Don't hesitate to submit your paper proposal for our EAA session #804. The deadline is February 8!

EAA session #804 'Make dolia great again', which I co-organize with Paulina Komar, is now officially open for paper submissions! Submit your proposals on the website until February 8: submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2024/

The call for papers for EAA sessions is still open until February 8 (and not April 8, as I mistakenly announced earlier). Submit your proposals for session #909 on ancient presses on the website: submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2024/ !

Can we learn from the past? I wrote a piece for The Conversation - Europe on how archaeology and history can help viticulture to confront climate change! theconversation.com/ancient-roma...

As 2024 promises to be a year of challenging opportunities, I look back at my first edited effort. A milestone of 3000 books in the BAR Int Series, an important step in my research, and hopefully a useful contribution for all Roman archaeologists! www.academia.edu/44333783/The...

Published about a year ago in the exciting PASTAE series at Palgrave MacMillan. Still very happy with this effort to cast new and different light on some of ancient Rome’s economic activities! Available in hardcover, softcover, EPUB and PDF at Springer: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Struggling where to start the new year book-wise? Why not pre-order this first-time guide on archaeological research in ancient wine? Available now with a 35% discount (code: GLR AQ4) at Bloomsbury: lnkd.in/eCdKEwmH Preview table of contents and first chapter here: lnkd.in/eWw8jeuA

Eager to debate the future of ancient wine and oil archaeology? Ideas on how to build the best database? Join my session with Tomasz Waliszewski on 'Integrating data on ancient wine and oil presses' at next year's EAA! Call for papers closes April 8. www.e-a-a.org/eaa2024

Very excited to join the University of Verona and Patrizia Basso's ArchaeoAdWine project from Jan 1st to work on the archaeology of wine in the northern Adriatic from Iron Age to Late Antiquity! 🍇🍷🤸‍♀️

Constantine Zanis (1864-1947) Line of kvevri – the traditional vessel used in Georgian winemaking – along the side of a road in the Kakheti region of Georgia (late 19th or early 20th century) Source: British Library, Endangered Archives Programme  eap.bl.uk/archive-file...

Happy to be able to provide a 35% discount for Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology by scanning the QR code or using the discount code below! Available for pre-order now. Preview the first chapter: bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/65721...

Very proud to finally see physical copies of this one! Mine and @emlynkd.bsky.social 's gem of a book. 😍 🍇🍷

Thrilled to share the final program of our conference 'Wine and Institutions in the Ancient World'! Register for either attendance in Ghent (event.ugent.be/registration...) or online presence (www.eventbrite.com/e/wine-and-i...) All info: www.ugent.be/lw/archeolog...

Just submitted two session proposals on ancient wine and oil data and methods for EAA 2024 (Aug 28-31, Rome): "Integrating data on ancient wine and oil presses" and "Make dolia great again". Write me if interested in contributing! 🍇🍷🤸‍♀️👋🍡🍸

A fascinating and poignant object: a baby’s rocking cradle from Herculaneum, which was carbonized when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. It’s the only known Roman rocking cradle. 🏺 Photo: P. Macdiarmid via www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/muse...

Early 20th century Georgian representation of the grape harvest. Grape treading and must collection in clay jars are identical to Roman procedures 2000 years earlier. 🍇🍷💚