The MSCA NetFoodIt ‘Networking food plant imports in Roman Italy’, run by fellow Dr Federica Riso and supervisors Dr Alexandra Livarda and Prof Hector Orengo, is coming soon to its end. To celebrate its closing and share our results Dr Riso organised an one-day workshop on “Roman Foodways in Italy” that brought together a fantastic array of experts on the topic.
On September 26th, the event started with a presentation of the project “Urbanisation, commerce and foodways in the Roman world” directed by Dr. Livarda and Prof. Orengo, that also presented its different members, including Dr Patricia Vandorpe who participated into the workshop. It continued with the contributions of Prof. Basso and Dr. Van Limbergen of the University of Verona, who introduced the multifaceted “ArcheoAdWine” project, focusing on food and wine archaeology. Prof. Carra from the University of Bologna followed with the presentation of new, much-needed primary archaeobotanical data and interpretations from the site of Suasa. Prof. Marzano, also from the University of Bologna, discussed her research on the horticultural revolution during the Augustan age, providing an expert insightful view on the subject. Two more research teams shared their work during the workshop. The first was the group working at the archaeological site of Aquileia that presented their multi-proxy finds in a holistic approach, with contributions from Prof. Daniela Cottica and Dr. Andrea Cipolato of the University Cà Foscari of Venice, and researchers from the CAA Centro Agricoltura e Ambiente, Marco Marchesini, Silvia Marvelli, and Anna Chiara Muscogiuri. The team from the CAA Centro Agricoltura e Ambiente, comprising Marco Marchesini, Silvia Marvelli, Fabio Lambertini, Irene Broglia, Elisabetta Rizzoli, Laura Pancaldi, and Chiara Vitaloni (University of Palermo), followed, presenting their equally impressive multi-proxy analysis on material from the well of Sant’Agata Bolognese (Bologna). The last speaker of the event was Dr Riso, who presented the results of the Marie Curie project ‘NetfoodIt’.
The workshop provided successfully an important forum for sharing and discussing some of the latest research results on foodways and agricultural practices in the Roman world in Italy.
The event was sponsored by the Project NetFoodIt (Horizon MSCA-2021-PF-01, Proposal number 101065142): Networking food plant imports in Roman Italy.
