Call for papers: Olive Oil and Wine Production in Eastern Mediterranean during Antiquity

Ege University
İzmir, Turkey, 17-19 November
Deadline: 30 June 2011

We are pleased to announce that the arrangements for the symposium entitled as “Olive Oil and Wine Production in Eastern Mediterranean during Antiquity” organised by Department of Archaeology of Ege University are in progress. The symposium will be held on 17-19 November 2011.

In this symposium entitled as “Olive Oil and Wine Production in Eastern Mediterranean during Antiquity”, archaeological materials that are related to the topic are aimed to be evaluated:

The topics of the papers should be on:

1.Wine and oil production in Eastern Mediterranean during the antiquity,

2.Wine/oil production and grain processing devices and installations that are found in archaeological excavations and surveys; and their typology (press types, screw presses, weight stones, crushing basins and stones, etc.),

3.Regional settlement and production relation, regional or local production capacities, commercial links, transportation of commodity and shipping devices relevant to wine and oil production,

4.The regional similarities and differences of devices and installations in wine and oil production.

The papers focusing on how the production devices should be assessed in an archaeological work and to what extent it contributes to archaeology will be included in the context of this symposium.

One of the objectives of this symposium is providing an occasion to share competences and knowledge about the ancient farming technologies which is the subject of increasing interest within the archaeological
sphere and for the assessment of archaeological data about wine and oil production in Eastern Mediterranean during the antiquity.

The papers are expected to present original work and not to be published previously.

The languages for the papers will be Turkish, English, German and French,

The presented papers are planned to be published as a Symposium Book. However the papers will be evaluated by the arbitration committee before the publishing, deadline for the submission of papers is the end of 2012 March. All papers should include an abstract of 200 – 250 words and keywords in Turkish and in the language of the submitted paper. Papers submitted in Turkish should also have an abstract and keywords in Turkish and in one of the languages mentioned above.

The symposium will be held on 17-19 November 2011 at Ege University Campus. The first two days are reserved for the presentation of papers on wine and oil production in Eastern Mediterranean during antiquity. At the end of the second day a meeting for the evaluation of presentations is planned. On the last day a trip to Ionia is planned for the introduction of ancient settlements on shore and the production of wine and oil at the region.