Dimitri Van Limbergen
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Dimitri Van Limbergen
@divali.bsky.social
Roman archaeologist & ancient wine and oil specialist 🍇🫒 Journal Managing Editor at LEIZA - Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie & Member of FOST at VUB
Excited to announce the closing workshop of our multidisciplinary research into the #archaeology of #wine in northern #Adriatic #Italy on Dec 1-2 in Verona! For those interested in participating online, please write anna.nicolussi@univr.it
For a sneak peek, go to: www.archaeoadwine.it 🍇 🍷
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Finally out at Peeters: Vine-growing and winemaking in the #Roman World! +640 pages, 30 chapters and 1.6 kg of #ancient #vine and #wine awesomeness 🍇🍷😍, with @emlynkd.bsky.social & Academia Belgica 🙏

Order via the link below or write me for more info: www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?s...
August 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
❗ Call for papers ❗

Economic Interactions in the Roman Northern Adriatic.
International conference, #Rome, Academia Belgica, May 7-8, 2026

To participate, send an abstract of max. 300 words to dimitri.vanlimbergen@univr.it, federica.riso@uclouvain.be & andrea.cipolato@unive.it by Sep 30, 2025!
June 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Interested in joining this great session on roads and markets in #antiquity by Federica Riso for the 12th meeting of the Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana in sunny Palermo? Don't hesitate and send in your work to federica.riso@uclouvain.be ! 🔥https://aisuinternational.org/palermo-2025-home/ 🔥
May 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Honored & excited to have been invited to talk on #ancient wine in big clay jars at this unique #wine historical event by Simbenia, Antonio Arcadu and Domaine Kox at #Dalheim in Luxembourg on May 8! #dolia #qvevri #amphora #pithoi 🍇🍷
April 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Are you exploring resilience and antifragility in your research through history, archaeology, anthropology, digital humanities or other? Submit your abstract and join this exciting conference at UCLouvain, May 30-31, 2025! Paper proposals should be sent to valentina.limina@uclouvain.be by March 20!
February 4, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Another (hopefully last!) round of proofs for our mammoth state of the art in the #archaeology of #Roman #vine and #wine. Should be out early 2025 at Peeters! @emlynkd.bsky.social 💪 😍 🍇 🍷
November 12, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Less than a year after its publication, a second, more affordable paperback edition of our manual on #ancient #wine #archaeology is now available for preorder at Bloomsbury (out May 2025). Really happy to see that the #book is finding such a large audience! @emlynkd.bsky.social
November 11, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Cover & proofs are in for our new, massive +660p #roman #wine state of the field at Peeters, edited together with @emlynkd.bsky.social & Maria Stella Busana! 30 chapters by Maureen Carroll, Gloria Olcese, Jean-Pierre Brun, Annalisa Marzano, Tamara Lewit and many more! #classics #archaeology 😍🍾🍷😮💚
June 5, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Interested in #geophysics? Then apply for this #PhD #summer school at #Veii! Lectures & field training by top specialists in the field, June 18-22, 2024. The €600 fee includes accomodation, meals and local transport. Contact Ugo Fosco for more info! #Archaeology #Classics
April 15, 2024 at 9:05 AM
Spending some work time in splendid Verona 💙
February 8, 2024 at 9:21 PM
About one week left to submit your proposals and crazy ideas on winemaking in earthenware jars for our EAA session #804! Deadline is February 8.
February 2, 2024 at 8:14 AM
About one week left to submit your proposals for our EAA session #909 on integrating data on ancient wine and olive oil presses! Deadline is February 8.
February 2, 2024 at 8:08 AM
EAA session #804 'Make dolia great again', which I co-organize with Paulina Komar, is now officially open for paper submissions! Submit your proposals on the website until February 8: submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2024/
January 5, 2024 at 7:46 PM
As 2024 promises to be a year of challenging opportunities, I look back at my first edited effort. A milestone of 3000 books in the BAR Int Series, an important step in my research, and hopefully a useful contribution for all Roman archaeologists! www.academia.edu/44333783/The...
January 3, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Published about a year ago in the exciting PASTAE series at Palgrave MacMillan. Still very happy with this effort to cast new and different light on some of ancient Rome’s economic activities!
Available in hardcover, softcover, EPUB and PDF at Springer: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
December 28, 2023 at 11:28 AM
Eager to debate the future of ancient wine and oil archaeology? Ideas on how to build the best database? Join my session with Tomasz Waliszewski on 'Integrating data on ancient wine and oil presses' at next year's EAA! Call for papers closes April 8. www.e-a-a.org/eaa2024
December 19, 2023 at 5:50 PM
Very excited to join the University of Verona and Patrizia Basso's ArchaeoAdWine project from Jan 1st to work on the archaeology of wine in the northern Adriatic from Iron Age to Late Antiquity! 🍇🍷🤸‍♀️
December 15, 2023 at 4:56 PM
Happy to be able to provide a 35% discount for Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology by scanning the QR code or using the discount code below! Available for pre-order now.
Preview the first chapter:
bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/65721...
December 11, 2023 at 7:24 AM
Very proud to finally see physical copies of this one! Mine and @emlynkd.bsky.social 's gem of a book. 😍 🍇🍷
November 23, 2023 at 9:15 AM
Just submitted two session proposals on ancient wine and oil data and methods for EAA 2024 (Aug 28-31, Rome): "Integrating data on ancient wine and oil presses" and "Make dolia great again". Write me if interested in contributing! 🍇🍷🤸‍♀️👋🍡🍸
November 13, 2023 at 5:18 PM
Early 20th century Georgian representation of the grape harvest. Grape treading and must collection in clay jars are identical to Roman procedures 2000 years earlier. 🍇🍷💚
October 29, 2023 at 11:19 AM
Next week we will be bringing these two 'karas' bottles to 'deepen' our talk on ancient and modern clay jar wines in Athens! #ConsumingThePast 2-5 nov 🍇🍷🤩
October 27, 2023 at 4:52 PM
Discussing the fascinating villa di augusto at somma vesuviana with students today in Ghent. A major find for the rural and winery history of roman Italy!
October 23, 2023 at 4:16 PM
Looking forward to talk on ancient Roman dolia and modern winemaking parallels with Paulina Komar at this exciting and out-of-the-box gathering in Athens soon!
"In search for lost tastes: comparative and ethnographic perspectives on ancient wines"
October 19, 2023 at 4:17 PM