Pots, pepper, charcoal and bread. The Material Economy of the Eastern Desert in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods

The purpose of this workshop is to create an analytical framework for understanding the complex and interconnected economies of the Ptolemaic and Roman Eastern Desert of Egypt in their geographical, social, and material contexts in light of new datasets. To this end, we seek to bring together researchers who can present new syntheses of archeological data on a regional scale, while contextualizing that analysis through conversation with scholars working on other material categories and periods in the Eastern Desert’s history. The organizers are seeking papers that offer methodological, theoretical, or analytical approaches to material datasets, and avoid field reporting.