Emlyn Dodd
Emlyn is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. He was Assistant Director for Archaeology at the British School at Rome from 2021–23, and is Research Affiliate at the Australian Archaeological Institute in Athens (AAIA), Research Fellow at the British School at Rome, is an Honorary Fellow at Macquarie University and an Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries London, Royal Historical Society, and Higher Education Academy, UK. He was named Macquarie University's Early Career Researcher of the Year in 2023 and has accumulated over $738,000 in competitive funding and awards for his research, including from the British Academy, Leverhulme Foundation, Australian Academy of the Humanities, British School at Athens, and the Australasian Society for Classical Studies. He also serves on several research and academic boards for UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), the University of London, and Institute of Classical Studies.
Emlyn co-directs the Falerii Novi Project, including major excavations at the Roman urban centre of Falerii Novi in central Italy. He also directs a survey project in the Cyclades, investigating the production of wine and oil, with a focus on the identification and distribution of agricultural technology and knowledge in the Classical to Late Antique eras. He is an active collaborator with the Antiochia ad Cragum Archaeological Research Project (Gazipasa, Turkey) and has previously worked at Delos, the Athenian Agora and Acropolis (Greece); Pompeii, Oplontis, Carsulae and in Sicily (Italy).
Emlyn is also a passionate student equity advocate, practitioner and researcher and has worked closely with widening participation and equity programs at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).
Address: London, UK
Emlyn co-directs the Falerii Novi Project, including major excavations at the Roman urban centre of Falerii Novi in central Italy. He also directs a survey project in the Cyclades, investigating the production of wine and oil, with a focus on the identification and distribution of agricultural technology and knowledge in the Classical to Late Antique eras. He is an active collaborator with the Antiochia ad Cragum Archaeological Research Project (Gazipasa, Turkey) and has previously worked at Delos, the Athenian Agora and Acropolis (Greece); Pompeii, Oplontis, Carsulae and in Sicily (Italy).
Emlyn is also a passionate student equity advocate, practitioner and researcher and has worked closely with widening participation and equity programs at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).
Address: London, UK
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Explore our compendium of cutting-edge methodological approaches for the future-focused study of Roman vine-growing and winemaking!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/methods-in-ancient-wine-archaeology-9781350346642/
Preview table of contents and first chapter here: https://bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/65721cfcf4428a00018aad0b
This volume gathers the latest research on grape growing and wine production in the Roman Mediterranean. While the approaches are cutting edge, the methods and case studies are explained well for the non-expert. Bringing together the work of both established scholars as well as more junior newcomers also means that this volume serves as an essential state of the field collection..
Papers by Emlyn Dodd
This paper is the first comprehensive Mediterranean-wide analysis of urban Greek and Roman wine and oil production sites. By using diverse examples from a range of periods we reassess the 'place' of urban viniculture and oleiculture against traditional explanations of 'ruralization', insecurity in the countryside, and urban contraction. New insight into how people engaged with urban spaces is developed through a combination of macro-level analysis in tandem with an observation of experiences at the meso- and micro-levels, by individuals and their neighbourhoods. Set within the context of recent sensory studies, we also explore both the experience of wine and oil production – one of labour, performance, celebration, and interactivity (between people, objects, practices, and place) – and the networks and relationships between production loci and their surroundings. Results highlight that urban wine and oil production was widespread, deeply embedded in the fabric of towns and cities, at times even prioritized, and fundamentally influenced space and the perception of place on variable microregional levels. These activities permeated the lived experience of urban inhabitants and visitors through sight, smell, and sound, and had the potential to restructure and revolutionize how 'place' was made.
This introductory chapter outlines the remit and purpose of this book as one designed to survey current methods and approaches, especially those building new trajectories in the study of ancient viticulture and viniculture. We demonstrate the major progress made in methods and tools during recent decades and the potential this holds to balance our knowledge of wine-related activities that are more clearly visible archaeologically and those that are ephemeral and have long gone underrepresented in scholarship. Following an extensive, methodologically themed bibliographical overview of the state of the art, we outline the structure and rationale for this volume and summarize key chapters, which are grouped thematically. Finally, we discuss future directions and challenges for the field, including limitations in perspective generated by a focus on, for example, amphorae or production installations, and a need to draw together and synthesize data from often-disparate scientific methodologies.
This chapter surveys and synthesises the latest evidence for winemaking and viticulture in ancient Italy, from the prehistoric era through Late Antiquity. It combines various forms of archaeological evidence, including art historical and scientific analysis, drawn from across the Italian peninsula to assess the role, scale and development of wine and the grapevine in social, cultural and economic terms.
A two-week campaign in June 2021 marked the beginning of a planned multi-year project at the Roman city of Falerii Novi, located in the Comune of Fabrica di Roma (Viterbo, Lazio), in the middle Tiber Valley. The project takes place under the authorization of the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Provincia di Viterbo e per l’Etruria Meridionale and is a collaboration between the British School at Rome (BSR) and the Universities of Harvard and Toronto, along with researchers from the Universities of Ghent and Florence. This report outlines the methodology, aims and findings of the preliminary 2021 excavation season, which included a gridded test pit campaign across the entire intramural area supplemented by a series of cores along two axes.
The world of vinicultural archaeology has expanded exponentially over the past two decades, adding novel discoveries, methodologies, theories, and new archaeological evidence. Despite this, focused regional or site-specific approaches and syntheses dominate scholarship. This article provides an alternate, macroperspective via a comprehensive update and overview of the archaeological evidence for the entire Italian peninsula. When considered as a whole, the sheer quantity of evidence is simply a starting point for future research directions. New data from pre-Roman Italy might suggest localized indigenous winemaking experimentation, contrasting with traditionally dominant east–west colonial diffusionist models. Detailed cataloguing and interpretation of Roman wineries demonstrate that two dominant press types were present simultaneously. Along with these syntheses, previously unpublished evidence is analyzed for the first time, including conspicuous, lavish, and theatrical wine production at the Villa dei Quintili just outside Rome.
Explore our compendium of cutting-edge methodological approaches for the future-focused study of Roman vine-growing and winemaking!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/methods-in-ancient-wine-archaeology-9781350346642/
Preview table of contents and first chapter here: https://bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/65721cfcf4428a00018aad0b
This volume gathers the latest research on grape growing and wine production in the Roman Mediterranean. While the approaches are cutting edge, the methods and case studies are explained well for the non-expert. Bringing together the work of both established scholars as well as more junior newcomers also means that this volume serves as an essential state of the field collection..
This paper is the first comprehensive Mediterranean-wide analysis of urban Greek and Roman wine and oil production sites. By using diverse examples from a range of periods we reassess the 'place' of urban viniculture and oleiculture against traditional explanations of 'ruralization', insecurity in the countryside, and urban contraction. New insight into how people engaged with urban spaces is developed through a combination of macro-level analysis in tandem with an observation of experiences at the meso- and micro-levels, by individuals and their neighbourhoods. Set within the context of recent sensory studies, we also explore both the experience of wine and oil production – one of labour, performance, celebration, and interactivity (between people, objects, practices, and place) – and the networks and relationships between production loci and their surroundings. Results highlight that urban wine and oil production was widespread, deeply embedded in the fabric of towns and cities, at times even prioritized, and fundamentally influenced space and the perception of place on variable microregional levels. These activities permeated the lived experience of urban inhabitants and visitors through sight, smell, and sound, and had the potential to restructure and revolutionize how 'place' was made.
This introductory chapter outlines the remit and purpose of this book as one designed to survey current methods and approaches, especially those building new trajectories in the study of ancient viticulture and viniculture. We demonstrate the major progress made in methods and tools during recent decades and the potential this holds to balance our knowledge of wine-related activities that are more clearly visible archaeologically and those that are ephemeral and have long gone underrepresented in scholarship. Following an extensive, methodologically themed bibliographical overview of the state of the art, we outline the structure and rationale for this volume and summarize key chapters, which are grouped thematically. Finally, we discuss future directions and challenges for the field, including limitations in perspective generated by a focus on, for example, amphorae or production installations, and a need to draw together and synthesize data from often-disparate scientific methodologies.
This chapter surveys and synthesises the latest evidence for winemaking and viticulture in ancient Italy, from the prehistoric era through Late Antiquity. It combines various forms of archaeological evidence, including art historical and scientific analysis, drawn from across the Italian peninsula to assess the role, scale and development of wine and the grapevine in social, cultural and economic terms.
A two-week campaign in June 2021 marked the beginning of a planned multi-year project at the Roman city of Falerii Novi, located in the Comune of Fabrica di Roma (Viterbo, Lazio), in the middle Tiber Valley. The project takes place under the authorization of the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Provincia di Viterbo e per l’Etruria Meridionale and is a collaboration between the British School at Rome (BSR) and the Universities of Harvard and Toronto, along with researchers from the Universities of Ghent and Florence. This report outlines the methodology, aims and findings of the preliminary 2021 excavation season, which included a gridded test pit campaign across the entire intramural area supplemented by a series of cores along two axes.
The world of vinicultural archaeology has expanded exponentially over the past two decades, adding novel discoveries, methodologies, theories, and new archaeological evidence. Despite this, focused regional or site-specific approaches and syntheses dominate scholarship. This article provides an alternate, macroperspective via a comprehensive update and overview of the archaeological evidence for the entire Italian peninsula. When considered as a whole, the sheer quantity of evidence is simply a starting point for future research directions. New data from pre-Roman Italy might suggest localized indigenous winemaking experimentation, contrasting with traditionally dominant east–west colonial diffusionist models. Detailed cataloguing and interpretation of Roman wineries demonstrate that two dominant press types were present simultaneously. Along with these syntheses, previously unpublished evidence is analyzed for the first time, including conspicuous, lavish, and theatrical wine production at the Villa dei Quintili just outside Rome.
Originally published in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/a-newly-uncovered-ancient-roman-winery-featured-marble-tiling-fountains-of-grape-juice-and-an-extreme-sense-of-luxury-199670
Originally published here: https://theconversation.com/remaking-history-using-ancient-egyptian-techniques-i-made-delicious-olive-oil-at-home-and-you-can-too-180018
Originally published here: https://peoplingthepast.com/2022/02/11/blog-post-48-emlyn-dodd/
This public media article provides insight into the history of the site, what the new project hopes to achieve and progress in the first preliminary season.
Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/unearthing-falerii-novis-secrets-in-the-hot-italian-summer-an-archaeologist-reports-from-the-dig-162527
Ancient wine could not possibly be more alcoholic due to the inherent process of creating wines by natural methods and with wild yeasts. A range of other reasons are suggested for the practice of watering down wine, ranging from a combination of cultural tradition, fashionable taste and societal preference, sanitisation, and nutrition.
Original article here: https://www.badancient.com/claims/ancient-wine/
Digital access is changing the way we educate young people, but unequal distribution of that access has exposed a crushing divide in our education system. A global pandemic has magnified the impact of the disparity.
The primary purpose of this research trip was to identify a corpus of archaeological data evidencing the paleochristian viticulture of sites in Athens and on Delos. While some features are briefly described in much earlier publications, I aimed to discover new evidence in the form of viticultural installations while also re-examining known features in order to illuminate previously unrecognised data. The project succeeded in both aspects.
The primary purpose of this research trip was to actively participate in the Antiocheia ad Cragum Archaeological Research Project (ACARP) and link the objectives of my doctoral research with the current excavations on site at Antiocheia.
SESSION 1 - NEW SITES FROM OLD
Session Organizers: David Frankel, La Trobe University and Jenny Webb, La Trobe University and the University of Cyprus
SESSION 2 - PLACE AND BEYOND: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD OF LOCALITY AND EXTERNAL CONTACTS
Session Organizer: Stavros A. Paspalas, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens
SESSION 3 - MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE AND THE RISE AND CONTINUING DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEX SOCIETY
Session Organizer: Holly Winter, University of Sydney
SESSION 4 - WOMEN FROM AUSTRALASIA IN MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (PANEL SPONSORED BY AWAWS)
Session organisers: Candace Richards, The University of Sydney and Amelia Brown, University of Queensland
SESSION 5 - MEDITERRANEAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS IN AUSTRALIA IN 2021 – RESEARCH, ACCESS AND LEGACY
Session Organizers: Candace Richards, The University of Sydney/The Nicholson Museum, Josh Emmitt, University of Auckland and Rebecca Phillips, University of Auckland
SESSION 6 - FROM FIELD TO TABLE: FOOD AND BEVERAGE PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, AND CONSUMPTION
Session Conveners: Sophia Aharonovich, Macquarie University and Emlyn Dodd, Macquarie University
SESSION 7 - PAPHOS THEATRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT 25: A QUARTER CENTURY OF AUSTRALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF HELLENISTIC-ROMAN CYPRUS
Session Organizer: Craig Barker, The University of Sydney
SESSION 8 - PRE- AND EARLY ROMAN ITALY: SETTLEMENT, SOCIETY AND ECONOMY
Session Organizers: Gijs Tol, University of Melbourne and Jeremy Armstrong, University of Auckland
SESSION 9 – SACRED GEOGRAPHIES: LANDSCAPE AND RELIGION IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
Session Organizers: Larissa Tittl, University of Melbourne and Caroline Tully, University of Melbourne
To register, please visit:
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This three-day hybrid event brings together archaeologists and classicists worldwide to debate current developments in the field of Roman vine and wine studies. Almost 30 years after the seminal 'La production du vin et de l’huile en Méditerranée' volume by Amouretti & Brun (1993), and some 15 years after its monumental four-part follow-up 'Archéologie du vin et de l’huile' by Brun (2003-2005), the corpus of viticultural material has steadily grown in various parts of the Roman world, while the archaeological study of Roman wine has evolved into a highly dynamic and multidisciplinary field. The time is ripe then to draw up a new state of the field, to upgrade our knowledge on data and methods, and to discuss how to steer forward the study of Roman viniculture into new, pertinent and promising directions.
Alongside the main section of the conference – with over 50 specialists updating our views on these matters in East and West over six territorial sessions – the symposium also includes keynote lectures by Jean-Pierre Brun, Andrew Wilson and Patrick McGovern, a poster session for showcasing new and ongoing research, and an ancient wine tasting experience.
The conference is conceptualized as a hybrid multilocation event, and will take place at the Academia Belgica, the British School at Rome, and the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome.
The entire event can be followed online over zoom. More information on how to participate will follow once the virtual format of the conference is finalized.
Registration is possible via: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vine-growing-and-winemaking-in-the-roman-world-tickets-154546600041?fbclid=IwAR36fF63pyqsKDmbh-1YZuSIeV76HfEpa9OSEMSmbsNKNiaUfiM9iPrEtd0
The bulk of the thesis is devoted to a catalogue of individual vinicultural installations from each site, which includes a detailed analysis and description of their architecture and features. This emphasises the significant quantity of data that such individual analyses can reveal, in terms of construction methods, spatial setting, regional habits in press design and wine production. The remaining chapters combine archaeological features with interdisciplinary data situated within a broad discussion to interpret production at these settlements. This demonstrates how such data can be extrapolated and combined with related evidence to illuminate trends regarding agricultural production, viticultural quantification, religious habits, regional interconnectivity, trade and the economy.
The combined catalogue, analysis and discussion reinforce the noteworthy position viticulture held in Late Antiquity as an agricultural endeavour, socio-cultural and economic factor engrained within eastern Mediterranean settlements.