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Dr Emlyn Dodd
@emlynkd.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer @ics.bsky.social, Uni of London
Former A/Director, British School at Rome
Archaeologist 🏺 Ancient wine & oil 🍇🍷
Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org 🏛️
FSA FRHistS FHEA.
🔗: https://sas.academia.edu/EmlynDodd
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Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social · May 1
Paperback publication day for Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology with @divali.bsky.social 🎉🎉 only a year after hardcover! 🏺 🍇🍷

Still in full colour throughout and at the bargain price of £22: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/methods-i...
Two books laying on their side with another upright on top. A brown wooden bench and white tiles behind. Holding open a book showing two pages. On the right, text and images of ancient grape seeds. On the left, archaeological plans and images of excavation. An open book showing two pages. Text on the left; text and an image above of a tree with a ladder and person cultivating grapevines on the right.
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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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November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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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
Person standing on stage behind a lectern in a large hall, with a screen to their left and a seated audience Person standing on stage with a screen and images of Greek wine preparation equipment, and an audience in the foreground.
November 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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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.
October 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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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
Two people in an excavation trench with walls visible. Houses behind and hills in the distance. Two people standing at a ground penetrating radar machine on a grid and grassy field Three people at a table with a ground penetrating radar machine in the foreground and excavation area behind. An open excavation area with walls visible and mountains in the background.
October 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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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
ics.bsky.social The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · Oct 1
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
October 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Very happy to be contributing to this event in support of the wonderful @britschoolathens.bsky.social 👏
britschoolathens.bsky.social British School at Athens @britschoolathens.bsky.social · Sep 15
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-...
September 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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❗️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...
Aerial photo of ruins of ancient tower surrounded by dry agricultural fields. A dirt road runs across the image. A few clouds in the sky at back, and sea visible in distance.
September 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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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)
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Book cover with yellow and dark blue background, and mosaic depicting people treading grapes to make wine at centre Book cover with red background and late antique map across centre, showing Rome with surrounding settlements and roadways.
September 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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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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August 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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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...
Screenshot of the first page of a journal article in Current Opinion in Food Sciences, entitled Advancement and innovation in ancient wine research
July 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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🍇 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...
A book cover showing a Roman relief of two satyrs picking grapes from central vine tree, small wicker basket before each.
July 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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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
A hand holding decorated sherds of black gloss Roman pottery with other ceramic sherds in the background. An ancient terracotta loom weight on a green plastic tray with two more behind held by a person. An excavated ancient stone wall faced in plaster with incised decoration. Soil in front and behind. A hand holding an excavated black gloss ceramic cup with plastic sheets and soil in the background.
June 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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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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June 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Week 2 in Falerii Novi! Digging, documenting and drawing contexts inside the BSR/ICS trench ☀️
June 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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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...
www.sal.org.uk
May 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Join our wonderful @ics.bsky.social community as an Early-Career Research Associate! We have 4 openings tenable 2025-28.

🏛️ formal institutional affiliation+email with ICS, SAS & Uni of London
💰 £500 p.a. research allowance
📚 ICS Library access+mentoring

INFO 👉 ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/fello...
Early Career Research Associates
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May 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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A real privilege giving the Australian Archaeological Institute’s annual lecture in #Athens 🏺 🏛️

Wonderful packed-out audience and great discussions following recent work on Paros and a decade of thinking about #ancient #wine and #oil in the Cyclades 🍇🍷
A person standing at a lectern in front of a seated audience, with a PowerPoint projection to the left showing a coastal landscape on Paros.
May 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Paperback publication day for Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology with @divali.bsky.social 🎉🎉 only a year after hardcover! 🏺 🍇🍷

Still in full colour throughout and at the bargain price of £22: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/methods-i...
Two books laying on their side with another upright on top. A brown wooden bench and white tiles behind. Holding open a book showing two pages. On the right, text and images of ancient grape seeds. On the left, archaeological plans and images of excavation. An open book showing two pages. Text on the left; text and an image above of a tree with a ladder and person cultivating grapevines on the right.
May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Back staying with one of my favourite balconies in the world at the Australian Archaeological Institute 🙏 🏛️ so many PhD and Postdoc memories here, and now giving the AAIA Annual Lecture 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky
A view looking from an apartment balcony in Athens up a street surrounded by apartment buildings towards the Acropolis with the Parthenon above.
April 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Apply now for our T. B. L. Webster Fellowship!
Open to scholars outside the UK, with interests in ancient theatre and performance and its reception OR in classical art and archaeology. £6k stipend.
Deadline: 15 May 2025
Full details: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/fellowships/tbl-webster-fellowship
T.B.L. Webster Fellowship
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April 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Apply now for our A.D. Trendall Fellowship!
Open to scholars outside the UK, with preference given to applicants working ancient Italy and classical art history. £6k stipend.
Deadline 15 May 2025
Full details: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/fellowships/a-d-trendall-fellowship
A. D. Trendall Fellowship
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April 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Fantastically productive morning with colleagues working on wine-related material at the British Museum 🍇🍷 🏺 #Classicsbluesky

(so-called) psykters galore!
Ancient ceramic vessel with black painted figures sitting on a purple fabric tray and with desks in the background. Ancient ceramic vessel with red-figure decoration around its body, sitting on a blue fabric tray on a desk.
April 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Looking forward to being back in #Athens to give the Australian Archaeological Institute’s annual lecture 🏛️🏺

I’ll be talking about this stunning place among others in ‘Island towers and agricultural landscapes: #ancient #wine & olive oil production in the #Cyclades’ 🍇🍷
7pm, 29 April
The ruins of an ancient circular tower in green fields on Amorgos with sloping hills to the left, blue sky and the sea in the distance
April 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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We received 300+ applications for the @ics.bsky.social free, online #Phoenician and Punic short courses! 😳 highlighting interest in & need for other #ancient #languages

We will accept as many as possible and look to run more when able 🏺 🗃️ #ClassicsBluesky
March 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Excited to contribute to a new effort by The Classical Review to review digital projects in Classics & Archaeology 🏺🏛️

I had the chance to dive into the revamped Sphakia Survey Internet Edition & its longlasting impact on Mediterranean survey archaeology. Read more at bit.ly/43pILj7 🇬🇷
March 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM