Konuşma - Erica Rowan: "Şeftaliler, Erikler ve İnsanlar: Batı Anadolu'da Geç Antik Dönem Diyeti"

Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Bizans Çalışmaları Araştırma Merkezi, Erica Rowan'ın "Şeftaliler, Erikler ve İnsanlar: Batı Anadolu'da Geç Antik Dönem Diyeti" ("Peaches, Plums, and People: Late Antique Diet in Western Anatolia")  başlıklı konuşmasına sizleri davet ediyor.

Konuşma, İngilizce olarak Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Güney Yerleşkesi, Albert Hall (Temel Bilimler Binası), 310 salonunda saat 17:00'da gerçekleşecektir.

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Abstract

The late antique period in Western Anatolia was one of great change. Earthquakes, plagues, invasion, climate change and economic instability forced people to alter and adapt their lifestyles. In light of such disruption, many scholars have questions to what extent diet changed or remained the same from the Roman period. Archaeobotany, the study of ancient plant remains, can provide crucial information about food production and consumption. This paper will focus on the archaeobotanical evidence for diet in Western Anatolia, focusing in particular on the site of Aphrodisias. It will look at the way people adapted to new ways of living, and made use of the resources at hand.

Bio
Erica Rowan is an Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is currently in Istanbul on an ANAMED senior research fellowship. Her research focuses on ancient consumption practices, the evolution of food identities and cultures, and alternative fuel sources, particularly in the Roman period. She has written extensively on non-elite diet and on the use of olive oil pressing waste as an important fuel source in the ancient Mediterranean. Erica was the co-director of the recently completed SOFRA project that looked at ancient and traditional foodways in Manisa province and she is currently co-director of the British Council funded project Sustainable Ethical Cattle from Antiquity to the Anthropocene. She is the archaeobotanical specialist on the Aphrodisias, Sardis (Turkey), Villa of Titus, and Falerii Novi (Italy) excavations.