Catherine Keane

Screenshot of the first page of an article in the American Journal of Archaeology, entitled the archaeology of olive oil production in Roman and pre-Roman Italy

🚨PUBLISHED🚨 The #Archaeology of #Olive #Oil Production in #Roman & pre-Roman #Italy 🫒

READ: doi.org/10.1086/737823

➡️Good data for Neolithic & BA olive exploitation & cultivation
➡️Possible earliest rotary olive crusher in the Med (7th c. BCE)
➡️Roman era oil prod widely & larger-scale across Italy
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That would be great!

Lovely to spend some days researching at the newly reopened Institute for Interdisciplinary Cyprus Studies at the University of Münster! A brilliant intersection of colleagues with interests in Cyprus and in Byzantium.

Read the latest issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies on Orosius Through The Ages academic.oup.com/bics/issue/6...

I’m sure you already know, but there are some other views from inside Hugendubel, from the cafe on the 4th floor of Ludwig Beck, and from the cafe on the top floor of Galeria :)

Deadline extended to Oct 24!

Great venues for this conference. I particularly enjoyed the Spanish olive oil tasting last night, as well as the olive liqueur made on a Croatian island

Lovely start to the Liquid Gold conference in Warsaw with a keynote from David Mattingly and a gift of extra virgin olive oil from the Musej Uja in Škrip, Croatia 😍

Great turnout yesterday, and a lovely opportunity to share my book with colleagues :)

One of the last slides:

Looking forward to it!

More than a Church: Late Antique Ecclesiastical Complexes in Cyprus "More than a Church: Late Antique Ecclesiastical Complexes in Cyprus" published on 27 May 2024 by Brill.

Thanks! It's likely available through your uni library as a PDF, as it's within Brill's LAAx series: brill.com/display/titl.... Hopefully open access in a couple years. I'm also giving an online lecture on it on Tuesday through ANAMED.

I did my PhD on the archaeology of this topic in one large region, to ask this question from a bottom-up perspective for a view of agency outside of Constantinople/Rome; the church’s power was not monolithic or uniform. It was published last year :)

Thanks!

Link for abstract submission here: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026...

For anyone interested in the late antique intersection of religious institutions and economic activity, have a look at our CfP! Julia Koch and I will host a session in May 2026 in Aarhus at RAC/TRAC (Roman Archaeology Conference / Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference). Abstracts due 10 Oct.

Interested in orthodoxy, heresy and property? We are organising @imc-leeds.bsky.social sessions on these very topics for the #IMC2026! Have a look at our CfP and come and join us!

Do get in touch and please share widely!

I love the phrasing here: "an attempt to institutionalise the role of the bishop as the one carrying the monastic nuclear suitcase"

A beautiful tribute to a wonderful person. We will miss Ruth Keshishian so much.

Ruth Keshishian: much loved bookshop owner dies at age 81 Ruth Keshishian, who had an encyclopedic knowledge and understanding of Cyprus’ history and literature, and owned the Moufflon Bookshop in Nicosia for decades, passed away on Wednesday night. She was ...

Anyone who has ever worked in the archaeology, history, art & culture of Cyprus will know what an institution the Moufflon bookshop is. And we all know what an incredible loss it is to Cyprus with the passing of Ruth Keshishian today.

Ruth will be missed by many.

cyprus-mail.com/2025/08/07/r...

Can we start all academic events with a string quartet?
(celebrating the reopening of the Zypern Institut / Cyprus Institute at the University of Münster)

Off to Mainz and @leizarchaeology.bsky.social for an exciting conference on Byzantine Early Medieval #Anatolia 600-900 CE presenting a paper entitled: "Towards an Archaeology of Crisis: #Amorium and the Anatolian Plateau between the 7th and 9th Century"

Thank you!!

Cover of the book “More than a Church: Late Antique Ecclesiastical Complexes in Cyprus” by Catherine T. Keane, published by Brill. The cover features a photograph of coastal archaeological ruins in Cyprus, with a maroon background displaying mosaic patterns. The book is part of the 'Late Antique Archaeology (Supplements)' series. To the left is the EAA Book Prize logo, and to the right, a blue circle indicating 'EAA Book Prize Shortlist.

Congratulations to Catherine Keane, whose book 'More than a Church: Late Antique Ecclesiastical Complexes in Cyprus' has been shortlisted for the #EAA2025 book prize by @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social
We’ve got our fingers and toes crossed for you, @ckeane.bsky.social!

brill.com/display/title/70278

The EAA is pleased to share the results of the first round of evaluations for the EAA Book Prize 2025.

The Book Prize committee has shortlisted six publications.

You can find information about the shortlisted authors and titles here:
www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Awards/B...

#EAA2025

Very excited to head to Birmingham for the Byzantine spring symposium!

"By the late 4th c., bishops were already being referred to as innkeepers, stewards, accountants, and tax-collectors"

Detail from one of the mosaics at Agia Kyriaki Chrysopolitissa at Kato Paphos in Cyprus
#mosaicmonday 🏺

Nice to see that the 70th anniversary issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies is out! & looking forward to the future directions of BICS.

hello bluesky! i'm a late antique/Byzantine archaeologist currently based in Germany, with a focus on topics like the economic activity of the church, as well as resilience, industrial activity, and water infrastructure, particularly in the eastern Mediterranean. glad to see how bsky goes :)

Hi hi!