Directory of Research and Expertise

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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

Ancient History, Archaeology, Classics

Research keywords:

Roman archaeology, urban development, ancient agriculture, ancient wine, viticulture, olive oil, landscape archaeology, Mediterranean, Italy, Greece, Türkiye, island studies

Regions:

Africa, Europe, Middle East

Summary of research interests and expertise:

Emlyn Dodd is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the ICS, and was Assistant Director for Archaeology at the British School at Rome from 2021–23. He is a Greek and Roman archaeologist specialising in the study of ancient wine and oil, along with agriculture, technology and trade more broadly. He is also interested in ancient non-elites seen through the archaeology of Roman urban and rural sites. He has published extensively on the production of wine and oil in antiquity, including the books Roman and Late Antique Wine Production in the Eastern Mediterranean (2020) and Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology (Bloomsbury, 2024) as well as recent articles in the American Journal of Archaeology and Antiquity. He has also appeared across radio and tv, including with National Geographic and the BBC, writes regularly for public-facing media, including several articles in The Conversation, and has featured in international media, including The Guardian, NBC News and The Washington Post.

Emlyn co-directs the Falerii Novi Project, including large-scale excavations at this Roman city in central Italy. He also directs a survey project in the Cyclades, investigating the production of wine and oil, with a focus on the identification and distribution of agricultural technology and knowledge in the Classical to Late Antique eras. He is an active collaborator with the Antiochia ad Cragum Archaeological Research Project (Gazipasa, Turkey) and has previously worked at Delos, the Athenian Agora and Acropolis (Greece); Pompeii, Oplontis, Carsulae and in Sicily (Italy).

Emlyn was named Macquarie University's Early Career Researcher of the Year in 2023. He is Research Fellow at the British School at Rome, Research Affiliate at the Australian Archaeological Institute in Athens, an Honorary Fellow at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) and Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Society of Antiquaries London, and Higher Education Academy, UK. He has won competitive funding and awards from the British Academy, Leverhulme Foundation, Australian Academy of the Humanities, British School at Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art, and the Australasian Society for Classical Studies among others. He is also a passionate student equity advocate, practitioner and researcher and has worked closely with widening participation and equity programs at the University of Technology Sydney and Western Sydney University.

Languages:

	Spoken	Written
Italian	Intermediate	Intermediate

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
01-Aug-2025	Roman viniculture: current knowledge and new perspectives Chapters Van Limbergen, D. and E. Dodd (2025). 'Roman viniculture: current knowledge and new perspectives', in D. Van Limbergen, E. Dodd and M.S. Busana (eds), Vine-growing and Winemaking in the Roman World: New Data and Original Perspectives. Leuven, Peeters: 1-19.
01-Aug-2025	The Roman Cyclades: wine production and press technology Chapters Dodd, E. (2025). 'The Roman Cyclades: wine production and press technology', in D. Van Limbergen, E. Dodd and M.S. Busana (eds), Vine-growing and Winemaking in the Roman World: New Data and Original Perspectives. Leuven, Peeters: 385-400.
01-Aug-2025	Vine-growing and Winemaking in the Roman World: New Data and Original Perspectives Edited Book Van Limbergen, D., E. Dodd, M.S. Busana, eds (2025). Vine-growing and WInemaking in the Roman World: New Data and Original Perspectives. Leuven, Peeters.
30-Jul-2025	Advancement and innovation in ancient wine research Articles Dodd, E. and Van Limbergen, D. 2025. 'Advancement and innovation in ancient wine research.' Current Opinion in Food Science 64: 101330.
08-Aug-2024	Interim report on the Falerii Novi Project, 2021–2023 Articles Andrews, M., Bernard, S., Ceccarelli, L., Dodd, E., Fochetti, B., Kay, S., Rowan, E., Spagnoli, E. and Trentacoste, A. (2024). ‘Interim report on the Falerii Novi Project, 2021–2023.’ FOLD&R Italy: 586.
19-Apr-2024	The 'Place' of Urban Wineries and Oileries in the Greek and Roman World Articles Dodd, E. and D. Van Limbergen. 2024. 'The "Place" of Urban Wineries and Oileries in the Greek and Roman World', Journal of Urban Archaeology 9: 81–108.
08-Feb-2024	Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology: Scientific Approaches in Roman Contexts Edited Book Dodd, E. and D. Van Limbergen (eds). 2024. Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology: Scientific Approaches in Roman Contexts (London: Bloomsbury). ISBN: 9781350346642
08-Feb-2024	Scientific approaches to ancient wine: developments, challenges, and future perspectives Chapters Dodd, E. and D. Van Limbergen. 2024. 'Scientific approaches to ancient wine: developments, challenges, and future perspectives.' In E. Dodd and D. Van Limbergen (eds), Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology: Scientific Approaches in Roman Contexts (London: Bloomsbury): 1–12. doi: 10.5040/9781350346680.ch-001
09-Jan-2024	Ancient olive presses and oil production in Cyrenaica (North-East Libya) Review Dodd, E. 2024. 'Review of A. Buzaian, Ancient olive presses and oil production in Cyrenaica (North-East Libya). London: British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies, 2022. Pp. 176. ISBN 9781915808004.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2024.01.03.
01-Dec-2023	Wine and the vine in ancient Italy: an archaeological approach Chapters Dodd, E. 2023. ‘Wine and the vine in ancient Italy: an archaeological approach.’ In Situating foodways and foodscapes: dalla tavola al terreno, R. Cevasco, V. Pescini and R. Hearn (eds). Genoa, Genoa University Press: 71–105.
01-Jul-2023	The Falerii Novi Project Articles Andrews, M., Bernard, S., Dodd, E., Fochetti, B., Kay, S., Liverani, P., Millett, M. and Vermeulen, F. (2023). ‘The Falerii Novi Project.’ Papers of the British School at Rome 91.
18-Apr-2023	The spectacle of production: a Roman imperial winery at the Villa of the Quintilii, Rome Articles Dodd, E., Galli, G. and Frontoni, R. (2023). ‘The spectacle of production: a Roman imperial winery at the Villa of the Quintilii, Rome.’ Antiquity 97.392: 436–453.
01-Apr-2023	Making the invisible, visible: a twenty-first century approach to tertiary preparation, attainment and access for student equity Articles Dodd, E., Ellis, S., and Singh, S. (2023). ‘Making the invisible, visible: a twenty-first century approach to tertiary preparation, attainment and access for student equity.’ International Journal of Inclusive Education 27.2: 167–87 (Published online in 2020).
01-Oct-2022	Wine, oil, and knowledge networks across the Graeco-Roman Cyclades (Greece) Articles Dodd, E. (2022). ‘Wine, oil, and knowledge networks across the Graeco-Roman Cyclades (Greece).’ Papers of the British School at Rome 90: 352–355.
01-Oct-2022	The Falerii Novi Project: the 2021 season Articles Bernard, S., Andrews, M., Ceccarelli, L., Dodd, E., Kay, S., Leone, N. and Vermeulen, F. (2022). ‘The Falerii Novi Project: the 2021 season.’ Papers of the British School at Rome 90: 341–345.
17-Aug-2022	Wine, oil, and knowledge networks across the Graeco-Roman Cyclades: new data from Paros and Naxos in 2021 Articles Dodd, E. (2022). ‘Wine, oil, and knowledge networks across the Graeco-Roman Cyclades: new data from Paros and Naxos in 2021.’ Mediterranean Archaeology 34/35: 155–167.
01-Jul-2022	The archaeology of wine production in Roman and pre-Roman Italy Articles Dodd, E. (2022). ‘The archaeology of wine production in Roman and pre-Roman Italy.’ American Journal of Archaeology 126.3: 443–480.
02-Nov-2021	Equalizing and widening access to higher education during a pandemic: lessons learned from a multi-university perspective Articles Dodd, E., Singh, S., Micsko, J., Adams, K., Morison, C. and Upton, S. (2021). ‘Equalizing and widening access to higher education during a pandemic: lessons learned from a multi-university perspective.’ Student Success 12.3: 58–72.
05-Oct-2020	Late Roman viticulture in Rough Cilicia: an unusual wine press at Antiochia ad Cragum Articles Dodd, E. (2020). ‘Late Roman viticulture in Rough Cilicia: an unusual wine press at Antiochia ad Cragum.’ Journal of Roman Archaeology 33: 467–482.
19-Aug-2020	Population decline and viticultural industry: societal transformation on Late Antique Delos (Greece) Chapters Dodd, E. (2020). ‘Population decline and viticultural industry: societal transformation on Late Antique Delos (Greece).’ In The Resilience of the Roman Empire: regional case studies on the relationship between population and food resources, D. Van Limbergen, S. Maréchal and W. De Clercq (eds). Oxford, BAR: 109–128.
12-Aug-2020	Wine and olive oil across the ancient Cyclades: a preliminary report and new thoughts on the development of Greek and Roman press technology Articles Dodd, E. (2020). ‘Wine and olive oil across the ancient Cyclades: a preliminary report and new thoughts on the development of Greek and Roman press technology.’ Mediterranean Archaeology 32/33 (2019/2020): 123–138.
01-Jan-2020	Roman and Late Antique Wine Production in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Comparative Archaeological Study at Antiochia ad Cragum (Turkey) and Delos (Greece) Monographs Dodd, E. (2020). Roman and Late Antique wine production in the eastern Mediterranean. Oxford, Archaeopress.
16-Aug-2017	Pressing issues: a new discovery in the vineyard of region I.20, Pompeii Articles Dodd, E. (2017). ‘Pressing issues: a new discovery in the vineyard of region I.20, Pompeii.’ Archeologia Classica 68: 577–588.
20-Sep-2016	Macquarie Gale Rome Scholarship: Roman viticulture and the provinces. An archaeological study on wine production and the socio-cultural connectivity it stimulates Articles Dodd, E. (2016). ‘Macquarie Gale Rome Scholarship: Roman viticulture and the provinces. An archaeological study on wine production and the socio-cultural connectivity it stimulates.’ Papers of the British School at Rome 84: 352–354.
13-Aug-2014	From Hispania to the Chalkidiki: a detailed study of transport amphorae from the Macquarie University Museum of Ancient Cultures Articles Dodd, E. (2014). ‘From Hispania to the Chalkidiki: a detailed study of transport amphorae from the Macquarie University Museum of Ancient Cultures.’ Chronika 4: 22–40.

Publications available on SAS-space:

Date	Details
Apr-2023	The spectacle of production: a Roman imperial winery at the Villa of the Quintilii, Rome PeerReviewed 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.
	The Falerii Novi Project PeerReviewed The Falerii Novi Project represents a newly formed archaeological initiative to explore the Roman city of Falerii Novi. The project forms a collaboration of the British School at Rome with a multinational team of partner institutions. Thanks to a rich legacy of geophysical work on both the site and its territory, Falerii Novi presents an exceptional opportunity to advance understanding of urbanism in ancient and medieval Italy. The Falerii Novi Project employs a range of methodologies, integrating continued site-scale survey with new campaigns of stratigraphic excavation, archival research and environmental archaeology. The project aims to present a more expansive and holistic urban history of this key Tiber Valley settlement by focusing on long-run socio-economic processes both within Falerii Novi and as they linked the city to its wider landscape.
Jul-2022	The archaeology of wine production in Roman and pre-Roman Italy PeerReviewed The world of vinicultural archaeology has expanded exponentially over the past two decades, adding novel discoveries, methodologies, theories, and new archaeological evidence. Despite this, focused regional or site-specific approaches and syntheses dominate scholarship. This article provides an alternate, macroperspective via a comprehensive update and overview of the archaeological evidence for the entire Italian peninsula. When considered as a whole, the sheer quantity of evidence is simply a starting point for future research directions. New data from pre-Roman Italy might suggest localized indigenous winemaking experimentation, contrasting with traditionally dominant east–west colonial diffusionist models. Detailed cataloguing and interpretation of Roman wineries demonstrate that two dominant press types were present simultaneously. Along with these syntheses, previously unpublished evidence is analyzed for the first time, including conspicuous, lavish, and theatrical wine production at the Villa dei Quintili just outside Rome.
Nov-2021	Equalizing and Widening Access to Higher Education During a Pandemic: Lessons Learned from a Multi-University Perspective PeerReviewed 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.
Dec-2023	Wine and the vine in ancient Italy: an archaeological approach PeerReviewed This chapter surveys and synthesises the latest evidence for winemaking and viticulture in ancient Italy, from the prehistoric era through Late Antiquity. It combines various forms of archaeological evidence, including art historical and scientific analysis, drawn from across the Italian peninsula to assess the role, scale and development of wine and the grapevine in social, cultural and economic terms.
Aug-2024	Interim report on the Falerii Novi Project, 2021–2023 PeerReviewed Presented are the results of the Falerii Novi Project, a multi-year international archaeological research project at the ancient urban site of Falerii Novi, in the Comune of Fabrica di Roma (Viterbo, Lazio), in the middle Tiber Valley. According to ancient sources, the Roman town of Falerii Novi was founded in the mid-third century BCE, when the nearby Faliscan center of Falerii Veteres (modern Civita Castellana) revolted and was conquered by Rome. The site, which measures nearly 32 ha and presents as a greenfield site today, lies along the ancient via Amerina, approximately 50 km north of Rome. The only standing premodern remains on site are the city’s walls, generally dated to its foundation in the 3rd century BCE, an extramural amphitheater to the northeast, peri-urban tombs, and the complex of Santa Maria di Falleri, whose monastic community is first mentioned in the 11th century CE. Previous work in the 19tth century and that carried out by the Soprintendenza during the late XXth century remain largely unpublished. More recently, however, non-invasive work using magnetometry and Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) has generated plans of the Roman town. The interim results of the FNP presented here build on this remote sensing to create a detailed understanding of the site’s development over its full history. Pursuant to our aims of exploring a range of urban spaces, trenches have been excavated across the intramural area, guided by magnetometry and GPR results. We detail results from an initial campaign of test pits (2021) and two years of open-area stratigraphic excavation (2022–23). Five areas of exploration (Areas I–V) are discussed below, including one, Area IV, restudied by the FNP after some initial, unpublished excavation by the Soprintendenza.
Dec-2024	The Falerii Novi Project: the 2023 season PeerReviewed 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).
Jul-2025	Advancement and innovation in ancient wine research PeerReviewed This article reviews how recent advances in archaeological and scientific methodologies have introduced a new era of research into ancient wine production and grape cultivation. Our understanding has progressed enormously since early studies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Analytical tools can now detect and interpret the presence of wine at increasingly granular levels, while collaboration between archaeologists and scientists has explored links between ancient and modern viticulture. We discuss the development and application of ancient DNA, archaeobotany and palynology, organic residue analysis, aerial photography, and geophysical prospection in relation to the cutting-edge exploration of key debates around ancient wine: the evolution of grapevine domestication; identification of production facilities and wine drinking, storage, and transport vessels; characterization of wine properties; and the archaeology of vineyards. In doing so, we also explore future possibilities for the field, including current challenges and limitations in data and method.

Additional Publications

Research Projects & Supervisions

Research projects:

Details
Antiochia ad Cragum Archaeological Research Project (ACARP) I serve as agricultural specialist in collaboration with the ACARP. The remains of Antiochia ad Cragum are located within the confines of the modern Turkish village of Güney, located approximately 12 kilometers SW of the town of Gazipasa in the district of Antalya on the south coast. The site is extensive, encompassing an area of approximately three hectares. There still stand substantial remains of baths, agricultural production facilities, a market, a colonnaded street with gateway, a large early Christian basilica, monumental tombs, and a temple, along with several unidentified structures. Antiochia is mentioned by several ancient sources as an important Roman commercial center and during the Byzantine era the city was a seat of a Christian bishopric. Under the direction of Prof. Michael Hoff and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the Antiochia ad Cragum Archaeological Research Project (ACARP) has been conducting excavations at the site since 2004.
The Falerii Novi Project (FNP) The Falerii Novi Project represents a newly formed archaeological initiative to explore the Roman city of Falerii Novi. The project forms a collaboration of the University of London, British School at Rome, Harvard University and University of Toronto. Thanks to a rich legacy of geophysical work on both the site and its territory, Falerii Novi presents an exceptional opportunity to advance understanding of urbanism in ancient and medieval Italy. The Falerii Novi Project employs a range of methodologies, integrating continued site-scale survey with new campaigns of stratigraphic excavation, archival research and environmental archaeology. The project aims to present a more expansive and holistic urban history of this key Tiber Valley settlement by focusing on long-run socio-economic processes both within Falerii Novi and as they linked the city to its wider landscape.
Wine, oil and knowledge networks across the ancient Cyclades The project Wine, oil and knowledge networks of the Graeco-Roman Cyclades assesses the wine and oil production of Cycladic islands over a broad chronological period to determine where, how and with what these commodities were produced, by whom, and how this production fits into networks of agricultural knowledge, ceramic production, and the landscape (including harbours and transport infrastructure) of the Aegean and broader Mediterranean. It began in 2019 under the aegis of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens and Greek Ministry of Culture and has now expanded into a larger multidiscipliary collaborative project with the British Schools at Rome and Athens. Since 2019, it has received funding from the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, Macquarie University (including the Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environment and Society for the Study of Early Christianity therein), the Australian Academy of the Humanities, British School at Athens, and the British Academy/Leverhulme Foundation.

Current PhD topics supervised:

Dates	Details
From: 29-Sep-2025 Until:	Movement and connectivity in the Middle Tiber Valley Aksel Breistrand, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London Principal Supervisor
From: 29-Sep-2025 Until:	Death in the suburbs: developing a new interdisciplinary methodology at Falerii Novi to study funerary landscapes Bertie Handley, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London (AHRC LAHP fully-funded CDA) Principal Supervisor
From: 29-Sep-2025 Until:	The identity of children in the community in Asia Minor during the early Roman Empire Kim Bell, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. Principal Supervisor
From: 01-Oct-2023 Until:	Diachronic change in Rome's political spaces from the late Republican Age to early Principate: a GIS-based approach Elizabeth Koch Koluk, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. Co-supervisor

Past PhD topics supervised:

Dates	Details
From: 01-Jan-2024 Until: 06-Mar-2025	The investigation of Roman urbanism in Italy through archaeological geophysical prospection Stephen Kay, Institute of Classical Studies, Univeristy of London (Primary Supervisor, completed 2025)

Available for doctoral supervision: Yes

Professional Affiliations

Professional affiliations:

Name	Activity
Elected Fellow, Society of Antiquaries London (FSA)
Fellow, Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Elected Fellow, Royal Historical Society (FRHistS)
Research Fellow, British School at Rome
Honorary Fellow, Macquarie University
Research Affiliate, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens
Research Affiliate, Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environment, Macquarie University

Collaborations:

Name	Type	Activity	Start date	End date
Hands-on at the British Museum	Collaborative graduate teaching between ICS and the British Museum Department of Greece and Rome in the London Intercollegiate MA programme in Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology	MA teaching	01-Sep-2025
Falerii Novi Project	Research collaboration	Large-scale fieldwork and research with the British School at Rome, Harvard University and University of Toronto	01-Jun-2021
WIne, oil and knowledge networks across the ancient Cyclades	Research with the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, British School at Rome, and Ephorate of the Antiquities of the Cyclades (Greek Ministry of Cluture)	Research project	11-Jan-2019

Relevant Events

Other editing/publishing activities:

Date	Details
	Editorial Board: Bulletin for the Institute of Classical Studies, Oxford University Press
	Reviewer: Journal of Late Antiquity, Johns Hopkins University Press
	Reviewer: Annual of the British School at Athens, Cambridge University Press
	Reviewer: Opuscula, Swedish Institutes at Rome and Athens
	Reviewer: Open Archaeology, De Gruyter
	Reviewer: European Review, Cambridge University Press
	Reviewer: International Journal of Inclusive Education, Taylor & Francis
	Reviewer: Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Harvard University Press
	Reviewer: Antiquity, Cambridge University Press
	Reviewer: Eos: Commentarii Societatis Philologae Polonorum, University of Wroclaw
	Reviewer: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, Duke University Press
	Reviewer: Edinburgh University Press
	Reviewer: British Archaeological Reports Monograph Series
	Panel Member: UKRI Interdisciplinary Assessment College Assessing grant applications for UKRI Cross Research Council Responsive Mode Grants
	Reviewer: Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, Equinox Publishing
	Editorial Board: Public Humanities, Cambridge University Press
	Reviewer: Journal of Interdisciplinary History, MIT Press
	Panel member: London Arts and Humanities Partnership Subject Area Group (Archaeology) Assessing doctoral applications in archaeology in the Open Studentship Competition.
	Editorial Board: Papers of the British School at Rome, Cambridge University Press

Consultancy & Media

Available for consultancy:

Yes

Media experience:

Yes

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