On this episode of the Peopling the Past podcast, we are joined by Dr. Erica Rowan, a lecturer in classical archaeology at Royal Holloway University of London and the founding editor of the Archaeology of Food and Foodways Journal. She has also excavated in Jordan, Tunisia, Turkey, and Italy and is a recent recipient of an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant to investigate globalization and its effects on traditional and sustainable food practices in Turkey.
Listen in, as Dr. Rowan tells us about how waste from olive oil processing was used as a sustainable fuel source across the ancient Mediterranean. She also tells us about how this process continues in the modern world.
Interested in learning more? Check out this article by Dr. Rowan:
Rowan, E. 2018. “Sustainable Fuel Practices in Roman North Africa and the Contemporary Mediterranean Basin”, Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica Natural Sciences in Archaeology IX: 147-156.
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Additional Resources Related to this Podcast
Coubray, S., Monteix, N. and V. Zech-Matterne 2019. “Of Olives and Wood: Baking Bread in Pompeii.” In Fuel and Fire in the Ancient Roman World: Towards an Integrated Economic Approach, eds. R. Veal and V. Leitch, 121–146. Cambridge.
Rowan, E. 2015. “Olive Oil Pressing Waste as a Fuel Source in Antiquity”, American Journal of Archaeology 119: 465-482.
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