This year’s conference, the ‘Ceramics of Drink’, will be held in
Leicester in collaboration with the Centre for Historical Archaeology (CHA) on
2nd-3rd June 2017. We have not abandoned the pattern of a one-day conference
alternating with a three-day but we thought the subject and collaboration with
CHA may attract more papers and people than could be accommodated in one day.
The AGM will be held on Saturday 3rd June and there will be a day rate for
those who wish to attend for just one day.
‘Ceramics of drink’ form a significant part of archaeological
assemblages in Europe and beyond throughout the medieval and post-medieval
periods. Pottery containers were a preferred way of producing, storing,
transforming, and consuming liquid beverages. They are associated with a wide
range of human activity from large-scale transnational trade, to ceremonial
consumption, to intimate daily rituals within the home. They materialized
drinking and social practices, with some undergoing significant
transformations, and others staying the same.
This conference aims to explore the important social and economic
roles that ceramics of drink filled and how they can be effectively studied by
specialist and non-specialist researchers.
There is still room in the programme for papers please contact
Meetings Secretary Lorraine Mepham (l.mepham@wessexarch.co.uk)
as soon as possible.
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