On Friday 17 January 2025, postdoctoral fellow Patricia Vandorpe organised a webinar to present the first results of her MSCA project ‘PlantNetGem’. The presentation, entitled ‘The influence of Roman food culture in the northern provinces of the Roman Empire and beyond’, was aimed at all archaeobotanists working in the project’s research area who have contributed valuable data to the project.
The hour-long presentation was followed by an interesting and fruitful discussion, where fellow archaeobotanists shared their views on the data and had the opportunity to get the first glimpse of the results joining all the data together. The webinar certainly gave the team much food for thought for the continuation of the project and we very much thank all participants for their generosity in sharing data and ideas with us!
The event was organised within the framework of the Project PlantNetGem (Horizon MSCA-2021-PF-01, Proposal number 101063192): Exploring the process of urbanisation in the Roman provinces of Germania through the study of food plant commerce.
Webinar participants:
Dr Patricia Vandorpe (Landscape Archaeology Research Group, Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology, Spain).
Dr Alexandra Livarda (Landscape Archaeology Research Group, Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology, Spain).
Otto Brinkkemper (Cultural Heritage Agency of The Netherlands, The Netherlands).
Lien Speleers & Sidonie Preiss (OD Earth and History of Life, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium).
Liesbeth van Beurden, Silke Lange & Wouter van der Meer (BIAX Consult, The Netherlands).
Margarethe König.
Angela Kreuz.
Elena Marinova & Tanja Märkle (Laboratory for Archaeobotany, Baden-Württemberg State Office for Cultural Heritage, Hemmenhofen, Germany).
Tanja Zerl (University of Cologne, Germany).
Nadja Hasslinger (Kulturzentrum Archäologiepark BELGINUM, Germany).
Mette Marie Hald (Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen, Denmark).
Emmanuelle Bonnaire (Archéologie Alsace, UMR 7209 MNHN-CNRS (AASPE), France).
Priscille Dhesse (Archeodunum, Nantes, France).
Örni Akeret, & Marlu Kühn (IPNA, Uni Basel).
