From minerals to daily life in the Roman countryside: the use of petrography to illuminate historical processes
- Date
- 16 May 2024, 14:15–16:00
- Location
- Observatory Park, Old Observatory, Kyrkogårdsgatan 8A
- Type
- Seminar
- Lecturer
- Filmo Verhagen, PhD student at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
- Organiser
- Uppsala Technical Humanities Network and Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (CIRCUS)
- Contact person
- Britt-Inger Johansson
Our understanding of Roman daily life is mostly based on urban and elite contexts. However, the majority of people worked and lived on farms in the countryside. Regardless of status differences, the same types of cooking pots were used for the preparation of food across Italy between the 4th and 1st centuries BC.
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The longevity of specific vessel forms suggests long-standing traditions in production technology and use. However, below the surface, signs of change are visible in the clay pastes used for those cooking pots. Petrographic methods are used to map those traces of change and continuity in production and trade, and they are used based on materials from the Pontine region (Central Italy), which can tentatively be connected to the large-scale historical processes related to Roman expansion.
Registration: https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/8869180