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CALL FOR PAPERS for the Food and Drink session at the LIMES (Roman frontiers) congress, Ingoldstadt, Germany 14th-20th Sept 2015 Once every three years, there is a congress on Roman Frontiers (the LIMES). It is a very sociable meeting, with days of presentations alternating with days of site visits: an excellent way to meet colleagues and discuss potential collaborative research http://www.limes2015.org/home/ If you are interested in contributing a paper or a poster to the Food & Drink session, please contact [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and also the organising committee [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Titles and brief abstracts of papers need to be submitted by 31st March. For posters, the deadline is 10th August and there is helpful information on the Congress website at http://www.limes2015.org/congress/poster-submission/ Food and drink – what do they tell us about people living and working in the frontier regions of the Roman Empire? What you eat, how you prepare food and who you dine with can indicate a range of factors including cultural background or ethnicity, and economic or social status. Diverse people moved around the frontier zones: foreign soldiers were sent on military postings whilst local people and workers moved to industrial sites, towns and extra-mural settlements. When they met, did they mix or keep their distance, and did they use food and drink to express their identities? Did soldiers everywhere have a uniform military diet, or did they spice things up with flavours from home, or make use of local specialities? Did locals adopt colonial foodstyles? Recent research and developing techniques are revealing new insights into expressions of identity, methods of production and logistics of supply. We would like this session to include different types of evidence and geographical location. Some potential questions and types of evidence are suggested below: · What did people consume, and was this through choice or necessity?- plant and animal remains, food residues in ceramic containers, isotopes in human bones, epigraphic and literary sources · How did people prepare and consume food? - ceramics (individual food portions or group meals), butchery practices, imported tableware or traditional drinks containers? · Where did the food and drink come from and what were the distribution, processing and storage facilities? – containers, processing waste · Can you distinguish between people living inside and outside the Empire, or in a military or extra-mural settlement through their consumption of food and drink? Session organisers: Dr Sue Stallibrass [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Prof. Tom Parker [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Papers and posters will be presented from September 14th-20th at the Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany. On alternating days there will be visits to archaeological sites along the Raetian Limes in Bavaria as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Frontiers of the Roman Empire.