Aydınoğlu, Ümit – A. Kaan Şenol : Olive Oil and Wine Production in Aegean and Mediterranean in Antiquity

Ümit Aydınoğlu – A. Kaan Şenol,
Olive Oil and Wine Production in Aegean and Mediterranean in Antiquity
International Symposium Proceedings

Ankara 2024

ISBN 978-625-6925-67-0


VIII + 415 S., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 29,7 x 21 cm; broschiert/softcover

The symposium titled Olive Oil and Wine Production in the Aegean and Mediterranean in Antiquity, held in Bodrum in 2022, is the third of the meetings previously held in Mersin and Urla in Turkey. The symposium in Bodrum has the subtitle of olive oil, wine production, rural settlements, urban centers and trade in the Aegean and Mediterranean in Antiquity, and has a content covering every area of ​​production. In the international symposium held in Bodrum, issues that need to be addressed, new findings and discussions have emerged thanks to the papers presented by competent scientists in their fields. The symposium aims to evaluate these, examine the dimensions of the evolution of olive oil and wine production in settlements in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean during Antiquity and its impact on trade, and address newly obtained archaeological data. Some of the topics addressed in the symposium are as follows: Packaging, transportation and routes in ancient olive oil and wine production; production capacity, producer-consumer relations, land uses and lease agreements, ancient landscape and land use in olive and vineyard agriculture, rural and urban relations in ancient olive oil and wine production; archaeometric studies in ancient olive oil and wine production; paleo-ethnobotanical ethnoarchaeological studies in olive and vine production; olive oil and wine in the light of epigraphic historical documents.