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Roman and Late Antique Wine Production in the Eastern Mediterranean is devoted to the viticulture of two settlements, Antiochia ad Cragum and Delos, using results stemming from surface survey and excavation to assess their potential integration within the now well-known agricultural boom of the 5th-7th centuries AD. Interdisciplinary and ethnographic data supplements the main archaeological catalogue and provides a rounded understanding of production and use. The publication of an excavated vinicultural vat in Rough Cilicia for the first time, along with the first complete discussion of the viticultural industry on Delos in Late Antiquity, underscores the significance of this book. The combined catalogue, analysis and discussion reinforce the noteworthy position viticulture held in Late Antiquity as an agricultural endeavour, sociocultural and economic factor engrained within eastern Mediterranean settlements.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a rapid and unprecedented shift of widening participation and outreach activities to online and remote delivery. The impact of this went beyond practitioners and the university sector; positive and negative implications are felt by stakeholders and the broader community. This shift online is discussed through the lens of a multi-university perspective, using four case studies from university outreach programs in one Australian state. The article provides a holistic view of the lessons learned and discoveries made, informing future program design and delivery. These programs include primary and secondary students, teachers, parents, guardians and carers, and work within a range of low socioeconomic and regional, rural and remote contexts. We argue that the fundamentally necessary shift online created a profound legacy and bears potential to increase accessibility (via diversity and scale), but, simultaneously, that care must be applied if substituting face-to-face engagement with that online. While this article primarily focuses on issues of value to practitioners, it also discusses important implications for academics, support staff, and university executive regarding the access and participation of underrepresented cohorts during times of mass change.

Rough Cilicia is well-known for the number of wine-presses found, 1 which shows that viticulture was important locally as well as wine being a likely candidate for export. 2 Excavation and survey here has generally lagged behind other regions, 3 and work at Antiochia ad Cragum (Güney Köyü, Gazipaşa) in particular is relatively recent, starting with the Rough Cilicia Archaeological Survey Project (RCSP) and continuing with its offshoot, the Antiochia ad Cragum Archaeological Research Project (ACARP). 4 The city, founded by Antiochus IV of Commagene in the Julio-Claudian period, lies on an important road along the S coast with direct links to settlements of the central Anatolian plateau; 5 it also lies on the maritime trade route extending from Syria and Palestine to Constantinople and the area of the Black Sea, with another going to central and W Mediterranean lands. 6 Occupied continuously from the Imperial to the Byzantine period, 7 it achieved a considerable size.

This article provides a catalogue and discussion of material from surveys undertaken in 2021 across Paros and Naxos as part of the ‘Wine, oil, and knowledge networks in the ancient Cyclades’ project. A broad range of new data was recovered and recorded, most of which supports previous theories regarding (micro) regional press type preference, production landscapes and habits on Cycladic islands from the Hellenistic to Late Antique eras. In particular, the Cheimarrou tower site and Kastro Apalirou (Naxos) provide insight into two different modes of agricultural productivity and contribute comparative data to previously recorded material from Delos, Paros, Amorgos, Antiparos, Tinos, and Mykonos.

The elites of many past cultures have sought to romanticise agricultural labour—often the source of their wealth and hence their status. A recently discovered winery at the Villa of the Quintilii on the Via Appia Antica, near Rome, provides only the second known example from the Graeco-Roman world of an opulent wine production complex built to facilitate vinicultural ‘spectacle’. The authors present the architectural and decorative form of the winery and illustrate how the annual vintage was reimagined as ‘theatrical’ performance. Dating to the mid third century AD, the complex illuminates how ancient elites could fuse utilitarian function with ostentatious luxury to fashion their social and political status.

This article presents new evidence for Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique oil and wine production gathered during preliminary surveys across a number of Cycladic islands in 2019 and 2020. A catalogue of finds provides data for ensuing discussions regarding date, technological development, and local preferences. Focus is given to the broader topographical context of each press element with trends emerging regarding an association with, or reuse of, Hellenistic towers and connected infrastructure on Paros, Mykonos, and Tinos. This is then linked to recent discussions of diachronic insularity, diversity, and interconnectivity amongst the ancient Cyclades.

Aerial photogrammetry, using a DJI Mavic 2S drone, generated 3D models of the standing tower structure along with a series of orthophotographs and Digital Elevation Models of the study area. Towards the northern limit of the survey, a substantial east–west linear feature crosses both fields ([1] in Fig. 2) potentially indicating a historic land division and roughly corresponding with the orientation of the modern dirt road to the south. Intensive surface survey followed standard fieldwalking methodologies used recently in the Cyclades (e.g., Athanasoulis et al., 2021) and sought to generate a more robust understanding of the chronological and functional range of activity around the site. The data captured nonetheless illustrates areas of archaeological interest and concentrations of material that will be crucial to guide not only future investigations but also modern building development, which is placing increasing pressure on this landscape and its cultural heritage.

The first trench was located over what was identified as a macellum structure and an adjacent tuff building to its north (Area I); a second trench explored the residential fabric south of the forum (Area II); and a third investigated a series of tabernae on the northwest corner of the forum (Area V). The feature was clearly serving as a rubbish dump at this time, when a monastic community inhabited the area around the nearby church of S. Maria in Falleri. The faucet was plugged, the marble paving slabs robbed and a new drain was made at the southeast corner connecting to a different subterranean water channel. On the west face of the low wall, a reused tile set in light mortar resembles a building technique seen in later phases

A four-week campaign from 29 May–23 June 2023 marked the third season of the Falerii Novi Project, and the second season of stratigraphic excavation on site as part of an international collaboration between the British School at Rome, Harvard University, the Institute of Classical Studies (University of London) and the University of Toronto, along with researchers from Ghent University and the University of Florence, under the authorization of the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Provincia di Viterbo e per l'Etruria Meridionale. The project, described in two previous reports (Bernard et al., 2022; Andrews et al., 2023b), sets out to explore the urban history of the site of Falerii Novi in the Middle Tiber Valley (Andrews et al., 2023a). Excavation concentrated on three areas of the city: work continued in Areas I (macellum) and II (domus), while Area III in the southern sector of the town was closed and a new Area V opened above a series of tabernae along the northwestern side of the forum piazza (Fig. 1). Reported elsewhere in this volume are other activities also undertaken under the broad umbrella of the Falerii Novi Project over the past year. These include a large geophysical survey of the suburban area begun with the aim of exploring the immediate hinterland of the city (Pomar, 2024) and a topographical reassessment of the open excavations conducted by the Soprintendenza between 1969 and 1974 (Fochetti, 2024)..