10:00 to 12:00
Lecture

Olives and oils in antiquity

Jean-Pierre Brun
Olive trees and olive oil in antiquity (1)
10:00 to 12:00
    Marguerite-de-Navarre Amphitheater, Marcelin-Berthelot Site
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    • The harvest.
    • Olives: when we talk about olive growing, we naturally tend to focus on the oil, which was the most highly valued and marketed product. And let's not forget that olives were a staple food for peasants and workers alike.
    • Productivity.
    • Canned olives.
    • Oil: seed oils, olive oil, primitive extraction processes, olive milling, percussion milling, stone roller milling, rotary milling, vertical hemispherical mills, vertical cylindrical mills and horizontal mills.

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    Speaker(s)

    Jean-Pierre Brun

    Professor at the Collège de France

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    Olives and oils in antiquity
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    Ancient uses of olive oil and its by-products
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    The archaeobotany of the olive tree
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    The great Roman olive-growing in the Tunisian steppe
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    Olive-growing from prehistory to the1st millennium B.C.
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    Olive growing in the western Roman province of Africa
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    The archaeology of ancient oil mills
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    See also

    Seminar related to the lecture: Olive trees and olive oil in antiquity (1)
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