Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture: the Archaeology and Science of Kitchen Pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean World
The British Museum’s Department of Greece and Rome is pleased to announce its 2010 Classical Colloquium on Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture: the Archaeology and Science of Kitchen Pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean World, organized jointly with the British Museum’s Department of Conservation and Scientific Research and the ‘Tracing Networks’ Research Programme (Universities of Leicester, Exeter and Glasgow), funded by the Leverhulme Trust, and to be held at the British Museum in London 16-17th December 2010.
This conference is dedicated to the cross-disciplinary interpretation of ancient ‘kitchen pottery’, i.e. utilitarian wares used as food containers or for food processing in a broad sense. By bringing together established scholars and young researchers from a wide range of academic backgrounds, including archaeologists, material scientists, historians, and ethnoarchaeologists, Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture will stimulate an international and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches.
Themes will include:
(1) Science, archaeology and society – how scientific techniques can reveal technological choices, cultural preferences and knowledge transfer,
(2) Production, consumption and the social biographies of utilitarian pottery – debates on the interplay of social and technological factors, social networks of production and consumption, development of specialist technologies (e.g. resistance to thermal shock), lifespan, re-use and recycling of kitchen pottery,
(3) Cuisine, culture and social hierarchies – the impact of context and status on food processing and storage, the significance of ritual, feasting, funerary and other ‘special’ contexts,
(4) Changing habits: cuisine on the move – innovations and adaptations in food processing and cooking in new or changing cultural settings, food and cultural identity, the impact of trade and migration.
The conference aims to set this ubiquitous category of artefacts in its wider social, political and economic contexts, in order to exploit it more effectively for understanding ancient societies. The proceedings will be published in a peer-reviewed volume. For further information and submission of abstracts, please contact the organizing committee at {encode=”kitchenpottery@googlemail.com” title=”kitchenpottery@googlemail.com”}
The organizing committee: Alexandra Villing (BM), Michela Spataro (BM), Lin Foxhall (Leicester)
Programme
16th December 2010, 9:00 – 20:00
9:00 – 9:20 Registration
9:20 – 9:30 Michela Spataro & Alexandra Villing: Introduction
Session 1: Technological choices and cultural context
9:30 – 9:50 Ian Whitbread (School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester), ‘Materials Choices in Utilitarian Pottery: Kitchen Wares in the Berbati Valley, Greece’
9:50 – 10:10 Ariane Jacobs (Mediterranean Archaeological Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) & Virginie Renson (Earth System Science, Geology Department Vrije Universiteit Brussel), ‘Plain Ware Pottery Production and Consumption at the Late Bronze Age Site of Alassa-Pano Mandilaris: Questions on Ceramic Variability, Technology and Provenance’
10:10 – 10:30 Peter Attema and Martijn van Leusen (Groningen Institute of Archaeology), ‘Late Bronze Age Production and Storage Practices in the Sibaritide (northern Calabria, Italy): The Evidence for “Doli Cordonati” in Rural Contexts’
10:30 – 10:50 Peter Day (Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield), Miguel Cau (Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, Universitat de Barcelona), Catalina Mas (Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, Universitat de Barcelona) & Noémi Müller (STARC, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia), ‘A Contextual Ethnography of Cooking Vessel Production at Portol, Mallorca’
10:50 – 11:15 Discussion
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee
Session 2 Specialised vessels? Organic residue analysis and vessel function
11:45 – 12:05 Rebecca Stacey (Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, British Museum), ‘Organic Residue Analysis: An Overview’
12:05 – 12:25 Alessandra Pecci (Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, Universitat de Barcelona) & Miguel Cau (Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, Universitat de Barcelona), ‘Residue Analysis of Late Roman Cooking Pots from the Balearic Islands’
12:25 – 12:45 Lucy Cramp (School of Chemistry, University of Bristol), Richard Evershed (School of Chemistry, University of Bristol) & Hella Eckardt (Department of Archaeology, University of Reading), ‘Direct Evidence for the Mortarium as a Specialised Vessel in Roman Britain via Organic Residue Analysis’
12:45 – 13:10 Discussion
13:10 – 14: 30 Sandwich lunch
Session 3 Specialised fabrics? Making and using ancient cooking pottery
14:30 – 14:50 Noémi Müller (Institute of Materials Science, N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”, Athens, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield), Vassilis Kilikoglou (Institute of Materials Science, N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”, Athens) & Peter Day (Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield), ‘Home-made Recipes: Tradition and Innovation in Bronze Age Cooking Pots from Akrotiri, Thera’
14:50 – 15:10 Walter Gauß (Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens), Gudrun Klebinder-Gauß (Department of Classical Archaeology, University of Salzburg), Evangelia Kiriatzi, Areti Pentedeka & Mirto Georgakopulou (Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens), ‘Aegina: An Important Centre for the Production of Cooking Ware from Bronze Age to the Classical Period’
15:10 – 15:30 Marie-Claude Boileau (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Philadelphia) & James Whitley (Cardiff School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University), ‘True Grit: Production and Exchange of Cooking Wares in the Ninth-Century Aegean’
15:30 – 15:55 Discussion
15:55 – 16:25 Coffee
Session 4 Lifting the lid on ancient cuisine: the evidence and its interpretation
16:25 – 16:45 Ann Steiner (Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster PA.), ‘Etruscan Hellenistic Kitchen Ceramics in Context at the Podere Funghi’
16:45 – 17:05 Laura Banducci (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan), ‘Cuisine and Food Preparation in Etruria and Latium: Cooking Stands as Evidence for Exchange’
17:05 – 17:25 Andrew Donnelly (Department of History, Loyola University Chicago), ‘Roman Ceramics in Roman Cooking Texts’
17:25 – 17:45 Jerolyn Morrison (School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester), Thomas Brogan (INSTAP Study Center for East Crete), Dimitra Mylona & Chrysa Sofianou (Kappa Delta Ephoria), ‘Cooking Up New Perspectives for Late Minoan Domestic Activities: An Experimental Approach to Understanding the Possibilities and the Probabilities of Ancient Cook-Pot Use’
17:45 – 18:10 Discussion
18:10 – 20:30 Poster session and reception
17th December 2010, 9:00 – 19:00
Session 5 Cuisine and Society
9:20 – 9:40 John Wilkins (Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter), ‘Cooking, Class and Health: Galen on food processing’
9:40 – 10:00 Bartek Lis (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), ‘From Cooking pots to Cuisine. Limitations and Perspectives of a Ceramic-based Approach’
10:00 – 10:20 Julie Hruby (Department of Art, Berea College), ‘Finding Haute Cuisine: Identifying Shifts in Food Style from Cooking and Serving Vessels’
10:20 – 10:40 Liz Langridge-Noti (Deree College, Athens), ‘Unchanging Tastes: First Steps Towards the Correlation of the Evidence for Food Preparation and Consumption in Ancient Laconia’
10:40 – 11:05 Discussion
11:05 – 11:35 Coffee
Session 6 Kitchen pottery: change or tradition?
11:35 – 11:55 Susan Rotroff (Department of Classics, Washington University in Saint Louis), ‘A Thousand Years of Athenian Cooking Pots’
11:55 – 12:15 Sarah Strack (School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester), ‘The Regular (post-)Mycenaeans. A View Beyond the Elites Through the Window of Utilitarian Ceramics’
12:15 – 12:35 Beatrice McLoughlin (Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, University of Sydney), ‘Coarseware Production at Zagora: Pottery Specialization on Islands of Abundance’
12:35 – 12:55 Eleni Manakidou (Department of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), ‘Local and Imported Kitchen Ware from the Settlement at Karabournaki/Thessaloniki in the Archaic Period’
12:55 – 13:20 Discussion
13:20 – 14:20 Sandwich lunch
Session 7 Ceramics, Cuisine, Contact: kitchen pottery in an interconntected Mediterranean world I
14:20 – 14:40 Alexander Fantalkin (Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University), ‘Coarse Ware as Indicator for Egyptian Presence in Palestine: A Diachronic Perspective’
14:40 – 15:00 Mareike Heinritz (Freie Universität, Berlin), ‘Northward ho! Greek and non-Greek elements in the cuisine of colonial settlements in the northern Black Sea steppe’
15:00– 15:20 Günther Schörner (Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Erlangen), ‘Cooking in Roman Tuscany: innovations and traditions’
15:20 – 16:45 Discussion
16:45 – 17:15 Coffee
Session 8 Ceramics, Cuisine, Contact: kitchen pottery in an interconntected Mediterranean world II
16:15 – 16:35 Alessandro Quercia (School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester), ‘Acculturation, Adaptation and Resistance in the Cuisine of Magna Graecia: Cooking Ware in Interior and Coastal Lucania’
16:35 – 16:55 Sabine Ladstätter (Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens), ‘Kitchen Pottery in Ptolemaic Syene’
16:55 – 17:15 Sabine Fourrier (Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée-Jean Pouilloux, Université Lyon), ‘Kitchen Pottery from Iron Age Cyprus’
17:15 – 17:35 Kristina Winther-Jacobsen (SAXO-Institute, Classical Archaeology, University of Copenhagen), ‘Cypriot Cooking Wares between the Hellenistic and Roman World: Artifact Variability, Assemblage Differentiation, Technological Choice and Change of Practice (Innovation?)’
Poster Presentations
Morgane Andrieu (Université de La Sorbonne, Paris)
“Graffiti”: Roman Inscriptions on Kitchen Pottery
William Balco, Michael J. Kolb & Valentina Musella (Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Opening the Cupboard of the Past: Archaeometric Analysis of Kitchen Pottery from Salemi, Sicily
Richard Carlton (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
The Influence of Culinary Tradition on Pottery Making Traditions in the Western Balkans
Channa Cohen Stuart (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Unraveling the Mysteries of Negbite ware
Catalin Cristescu (“Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca)
Cooking for the King. The Kitchen Pottery from Sarmizegetusa Regia
Anne-Marie Curé (Université de Montpellier 3, UMR5140 “Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes”)
Mediterranean-type Cooking Ware in Indigenous Contexts During the Iron Age in Southern Gaul
Bettina Fischer-Genz (German Archaeological Institute, Orient-Abteilung, Berlin)
Culinary Practices and Storage Strategies of Rural Settlements in the Territory of Heliopolis/Baalbek, Lebanon
Jane Francis (Concordia University, Montreal)
Cooking pottery from the Sphakia Survey (West Crete): Shapes, Fabrics, and Function
Andrew Graham (Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga)
Mesha Ware: Reflections on Technology Pathways in Iron Age Moab
Jean-Sebastien Gros (Université de Strasbourg)
The “batterie de cuisine” of the LG period from Oropos and Xombourgo (Greece)
Hanna Hamel (German Archaeological Institute, Orient-Abteilung, Berlin)
The remains of Feasting? A Deposit of Pottery within the Context of a Banquet Hall at Baalbek/Heliopolis (Lebanon)
Anno Hein, Noémi Müller & Vassilis Kilikoglou (Institute of Materials Science, N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”, Athens)
Heating Efficiency of Archaeological Cooking Vessels: Computer Models and Simulation of Heat Transfer
Lars Heinze (Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main)
Cooking Devices and Cultural Identity – Some Suggestions based on the Cooking ware from 4th / 3rd Century Priene (Turkey)
Sarah Japp (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin)
Pergamon and its Utilitarian Pottery
Gudrun Klebinder-Gauß (Department of Classical Archaeology, University of Salzburg ) & Sara Strack (School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester)
The Death of the Attic Cooking Pot: Hostile Takeover of Ceramic Production by Aeginetans
Mandy Mamedow (Historisches Institut – Ägyptologie, Universität Potsdam)
Firecatcher: Ptolemaic and Roman Cooking Vessels from Bubastis
António José Marques da Silva (Centro de Estudos Arqueológicos das Universidades de Coimbra e do Porto)
Dynamics of Kitchen Pottery and Cultural Identity in a Colonial Context. The Case Study of the Indigenous Settlement of the Roman Limes of the NO of the Iberian Peninsula: Castro do Vieito
Laure Meulemans (Department of History of Art and Archaeology, CEMA, Université Catholique de Louvain)
Vivaria in Doliis: Cultural and Social Mark of Romanized Society?
Noémi Müller (STARC, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia), Anno Hein (Institute of Materials Science, N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”, Athens), Peter Day (Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield) & Vassilis Kilikoglou (Institute of Materials Science, N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”, Athens)
Ceramic Recipes, Thermal Properties and Cooking Methods – Putting Thermal Conductivity on the Menu
Raffaella Pappalardo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples)
The Kitchen Ware from Tell Barri (Syria)
Harriet Robinson (Otisfield)
Ceramic Fabrics: Clues to Minoan Cooking Pottery Manufacture
Wolf Rudolph (Berlin)
Halieis and Mycenae: Pots for Daily Sustenance
Jenny Schlehofer (Humboldt-University, Berlin)
Preparation of Meals within the Necropolis at Halieis
Anne Sieverling (TU Darmstadt)
Food Patterns and Their Development in Akarnania
Michela Spataro (Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, The British Museum) & Alexandra Villing (Department of Greece and Rome, The British Museum)
Mortaria: Production and Trade in the Archaic and Classical Mediterranean
Giacomo Tabita (University of Turin)
Trading Network of Roman Cooking Ware on the Euphrates River (1st-3rd century AD).
Preliminary Results on Typology, Chronology and Distribution of the So-Called “Brittle Ware” Production from the Roman Fortress of Kifrin (Iraq)
URL: http://www.tracingnetworks.ac.uk/kitchen_pottery/index.htm