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”
Dr Emlyn Dodd
@emlynkd.bsky.social
Classical Archaeologist, Adelaide University Assoc. Fellow, @ics.bsky.social Former A/Director, @bsrome.bsky.social Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org 🏛️ Ancient wine & oil 🍇🍷 FSA FRHistS FHEA. 🔗: https://sas.academia.edu/EmlynDodd
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
Evenings - ABC listen
Join us for the famous Evenings quiz, a mix of interesting interviews, stories and live music.
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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...
Call for Emerging Editors Board Members
Closing date for expressions of interest: 2 March 2026
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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...
Evenings - ABC listen
Join us for the famous Evenings quiz, a mix of interesting interviews, stories and live music.
abc.net.au
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
Olives have been essential to life in Italy for at least 6,000 years – far longer than we thought
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.
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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....
Olives have been essential to life in Italy for at least 6,000 years – far longer than we thought
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.
doi.org
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.
Olives have been essential to life in Italy for at least 6,000 years – far longer than we thought
theconversation.com
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
Hands-on thinking through ancient and historical mosaic practice
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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...
Ancient City of Syedra Hosted Over 100 Olive Oil Workshops, Excavations Reveal - GreekReporter.com
Archaeologists uncover over 100 olive oil workshops in ancient Syedra, revealing the city's major role in Mediterranean trade and daily life.
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🚨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...
THE FALERII NOVI PROJECT: THE 2024 SEASON | Papers of the British School at Rome | Cambridge Core
THE FALERII NOVI PROJECT: THE 2024 SEASON - Volume 93
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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!
Revisiting the Ancient Mediterranean World at the British Museum: Race & the representation of the other Mon 15 Dec, 4pm, Senate House Full details: shorturl.at/dbH6p Speakers include: Hardeep Dhindsa (Birmingham Museums Trust), Mai Musié (UoL), Eleanor Newman (Oxford), Joseph Skinner (Newcastle)
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/...
Developing and leading a major project in Classics
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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
Teaching began today on ICS Intercollegiate Module: Wine, Oil and Grain in Greece and Rome: Production to Consumption convened by Dr Emlyn Dodd. Students will learn how wine, oil and grain shape(d) the physical, cultural and economic landscapes of the Mediterranean: shorturl.at/6mW5k
Very happy to be contributing to this event in support of the wonderful @britschoolathens.bsky.social 👏
Lecture and Wine-tasting 🍷 including a lecture by Dr Emlyn Dodd (ICS), a tasting of six Greek wines led by Alix Robinson and a raffle. 📆 Tue 21 October 2025 ⏰ 17:30-20:30 📍 Location: Westminster Cathedral Hall, London 🎫 £76 per person 🔗 More info: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/wine-...
❗️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...
AAIA 2025 Annual General Meeting and Annual Report (Sydney) – Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens
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🚨 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...
Episode 2 - Wine and the Rise of Mediterranean World
5 ½ Moments when Alcohol Shaped the World · Episode
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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...
Meet the Fellows: Dr Emlyn Dodd FSA - Society of Antiquaries of London
The Society of Antiquaries is proud to bring together a distinguished community of scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts dedicated to the study and stewardship of the material past. In our new Meet...
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