CURRICULUM VITAE

First name: Soultana Maria

Last name: Valamoti

Date of birth: 01-01-1965

Nationality: Hellenic

Researcher unique identifiers: Orchid: 0000-0001-5157-8062, Scopus: 7801644738

URL for web site: http://www.hist.auth.gr/en/content/valamoti-soultana-maria

16th IWGP Conference website: http://iwgp-2013.web.auth.gr/

Academic Record

Qualifications

2001 PhD, Department of Archaeology, Sheffield University, U.K. Thesis title: ‘An

Archaeobotanical Investigation of Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Agriculture

and Plant Exploitation in Northern Greece’ (supervised by Prof. Glynis Jones)

1989 M.Sc. in Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy, Department of

Archaeology and Prehistory, Sheffield University, UK. Passed with distinction.

1987 BA, School of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Scholarships

1997 Doctoral Scholarship, The A.G.Leventis Foundation Educational Grant

1996 Doctoral Scholarship, British Federation of Women Graduates Financial Grants

1994 Doctoral Scholarship, Sheffield University Bursary Award Scheme (three years)

1991 British School at Athens Centenary Bursary

Full-time academic employment

04.2014- Associate Professor, School of History and Archaeology, Aristotle

University of Thessaloniki

11.2007-04.2014 Assistant Professor, School of History and Archaeology, Aristotle

University of Thessaloniki

05.2002-11.2007 Lecturer, School of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of

Thessaloniki

Current undergraduate teaching

I teach lectures and/or practical classes on the following courses: Introduction to Prehistoric

Archaeology (APR101); Prehistoric Societies of the Aegean and the Balkans (Palaeolithic-Final

Neolithic - APR602); Bioarchaeology (APR308); Neolithic Economy in the Aegean (APR204);

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Archaeology (APR303); Retrieval of Archaeobotanical and other

Bioarchaeological remains in the Field (sampling and processing-excavation - AAA313);

Archaeological sites, Museums and the Public (APR312).

Current postgraduate teaching (excluding supervision)

I teach lectures and/or practical classes on the following courses: Neolithic Cultures,

Archaeobotany.

Erasmus teaching: I have taught at the University of Nottingham (spring terms 2007, 2011), the

Autonoma University of Barcelona (spring term 2010), Paris I Pantheon (winter term 2012).

Supervision of postgraduate research

Master supervision

2005-08 Kotsachristou Dimitra, Archaeobotanical Investigations in Prehistoric Macedonia:

evidence from Toumba Thessalonikis. Poster presentation, 14th International Work Group for

Palaeoethnobotany (IWGP), Krakov 2007

2007-09 Karathanou Angeliki, Archaeobotanical Research at the Neolithic Settlement

Kremasti Kozanis, oral presentation at AEMTH, Thessaloniki 2010, published 2011

2007-09 Moniaki Katerina, Archaeobotanical Research at the prehistoric settlement of Agios

Athanasios. Poster presentation, 5th Symposium Hellenic Society for Archaeometry; oral

presentation at 15TH IWGP, Wilhelmshaven, published 2011

2008-11 Chondrou Danai, Ground Stone Tools from Kremasti Koiladas, Kozani. Conference

presentation, CEMA, 09.2011, Louvain-la-Neuve, Destroying the means of production, published

2013

2009-12 Stylianakou Hara, Archaeobotanical Evidence from the Neolithic Settlement of

Kleitos Kozanis. Paper presented at the 25th AEMTH (2011), published 2015

2010-13 Petridou Chryssi, Archondiko Giannitson, Trench Γ: The Archaeobotanical

Remains. Conference participation in three presentations of the Archondiko isotopic evidence at

Marseille and in New Orleans, at the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), AGRICURB

Bioarchaeology team member.

2010-13 Telioridou Eleni, An archaeobotanical investigation of phase I at Archondiko

Giannitson

2011 Kokkidou Martha, Archaeobotanical Evidence from Dikili Tash, French Sector.

2013 Kokonaki Emilia, Plant exploitation during the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age

in the Aegean Islands: an Archaeobotanical Investigation

MA students H. Stylianakou and D. Kotsachristou are now employed in Archaeobotany careers by

the Greek Ministry of Culture in the Kozani Ephorate of Antiquities

PhD supervision

2012 Danai Chondrou, Ground Stone Tools from the Prehistoric Settlements Kleitos I and

Kleitos II. Conferences: 33rd International meeting of Archaeology and History, Antibes, 23-25

October 2012 (published 2013). Funding: Research Committee - Aristotle University of

Thessaloniki (2014), Leventis Foundation (2014), Onassis Foundation (2015-2017), Institut

Européen d’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation (IEHCA) (2014/15)

2012- Stavroula Michou, An Archaeobotanical Investigation of Prehistoric Societies and

Natural Environment in the Four Lakes of Amyndaion. Conference participation: 16th IWGP

Thessaloniki

2011- Karathanou Angeliki, Human Activity in Mainland Greece in the Late Bronze Age:

The Archaeobotanical Evidence. Conference presentations: 16th IWGP Thessaloniki 2013; New

Orleans 2015 AIA; Physis, Paris 2012, in press. Scholarships: Research Committee - Aristotle

University of Thessaloniki, Leventis Foundation (2013-15), Onassis Foundation (2013-15).

AGRICURB Bioarchaeology team member.

2009- Eugenia Gkatzogia, An Archaeobotanical Investigation of Iron Age Societies in

Central Madeconia. Conference poster presentations: 15th IWGP, Wilhelmshaven and 16th IWGP

Thessaloniki, Dutch Scool at Athens: Diet, Ecoconomy and Society - Athens 2010, published 2013.

Scholarship: Research Committee - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

I am also currently PhD co-supervisor for a number of Greek and international PhD students:

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. School of History and Archaeology: Trisevgeni Papadakou,

Ismini Ninou, Fotis Ifantidis, Sascha Mauel, Bekiaris Tassos

School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Anastasia Gazi, The role of man in vegetation

evolution through time on Lefkas Island;

Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: Clemence Pagnoux, ‘Fruit tree cultivation in Greece from Neolithic to

Roman time’, conference presentation 16th IWGP, published 2015

Examiner for International PhDs:

-Marian Berihuete Azorin (26.02.2010), La Gestion de Recursos Vegetales no Lenosos entre Sociedades

Cazadoras-Recolectoras: Propuesta para su Estudio. El caso de Tierra del Fuego (Argentina), Autonoma

University of Barcelona, European Doctorate Mention

-Ferran Antolín Tutusaus (13.02.2014), Of Cereals, Poppy, Acorns and Hazelnuts. Plant Economy

Among Early Farmers (5500-2300 cal BC) in the NE of the Iberian Peninsula. An Archaeobotanical

Approach Autonoma University of Barcelona, European Doctorate Mention

Major Collaborations

EU funded projects

ERC-AGRICURB project (Prof. Amy Bogaard, Oxford University): collaborator and

supervisor of students Angeliki Karathanou and Chryssa Petridou, members of the project's

Bioarchaeology team, http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/AGRICURB.html

EU PACE (Plants and Culture) project associated partner, exhibition and volume

contributor, http://www.plants-culture.unimore.it/associated.htm

EARTH (European Science Foundation), volume contributor

Archaeobotanical projects (Principal Archaeobotanist)

Greek Ministry of Culture Principal Archaeobotanist (selection of sites):

Agios Athanasios

Archondiko Giannitson (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki excavation)

Arkadikos

Anargyroi

Angelochori

Apsalos

Dikili Tash

Giannitsa B

Karabournaki (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki excavation)

Kleitos

Kremasti

Makri

Mandalo

Mavropigi-Phylotsairi

Mitrou

Promachon/Topolnitsa

Skala Sotiros (Thassos)

Skarkos (Ios island)

Thermi B

Toumba Thessalonikis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki excavation)

Greek Archaeological Society

Dikili Tash excavations

http://www.dikili-tash.fr/index.htm

University of Cincinnati, Excavation at the Palace of Nestor, Pylos (Directed by Jack Davis and

Shari Stocker) https://classics.uc.edu/prap/

Institute of Fine Arts-New York University Selinunte excavation (Sicily)-Principal Archaeobotanist;

University of Thrace, Turkey, Uğurlu, Imbroz/Gökçeada excavation

CNRS France, UMR 7041 (ArScAn, Dikili Tash excavations) http://www.dikili-tash.fr/index.htm

Dikili Tash (2012), Imbroz - Uğurlu (2013), Selinunte - Sicily (2013), Pylos - Palace of Nestor (2014)

Educational projects

National Geographic Learning World History program. An educational program for middle school

students which combines standard teaching materials (i.e. textbooks) with dynamic multimedia

resources. The program's content is driven by the work of National Geographic Explorers and

grantees and I am one of featured NG Explorers (to be released June 2015)

Boston University: Contributor (Legumes and Pulses, Oil-Bearing Seed Plants) to the Archaeology

of Food Encyclopaedia edited by Karen Bescherer Metheny and Mary C. Beaudry (in press).

Private Industrial Sector (SMEs)

Thrace Flour Mills, Ancient Cereals Project: The Seeds of Demetra - Cereals from the depths of

time to modern cuisines (May 2014-June 2015)

Sponsor's gifts, Thessaloniki, 16th Conference of the IWGP

Organisation of scientific meetings

2014: Scientific Committee member, Alexander von Humbolt Kolleg, Northern Greece and

Southeastern Europe during the Neolithic Period.

http://www.arheopedia.com/2.htm

2014: Session co-organiser, 20th annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists

(EAA), Istanbul 10-14 September 2014, Subsistence strategies in Change (session

T04S020, under T04 Environment and Subsistence: Geosphere, Ecosphere and

Human Interactions). https://www.eaa2014istanbul.org/sayfa/141

2013: Local Organiser, 16th Conference of the International Work Group in Palaeoethnobotany,

Thessaloniki, 16-22 June 2013, 270 participants, 36 countries, 5 continents,

Proceedings published (January 2015, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany,

impact factor 2.061). http://iwgp-2013.web.auth.gr/

2012: Scientific Committee member. 3rd ARCH_RNT Symposium, Archaeological Research and

New Technologies, University of Peloponnese, Kalamata, 3-6 October,

http://www.history-

archaeology.uoc.gr/files/items/1/1402/circular_3rd_arch_rnt_uop.pdf

2010: Organising Committee member. Conference on Subsistence, Economy and Society in the

Greek World: Improving the integration of archaeology and science, Athens, 22-24

March. Organised by the Netherlands Institute in Athens and the Hellenic Society for

Archaeometry. Conference proceedings co-editor, published (2013) by Peeters,

Leuven.

http://www.rug.nl/research/groningen-institute-of-archaeology/news/voutaski-pharos-suppl-1.pdf

2009: Symposium co-organiser (with Aylen Capparelli and Michele Wollstonecroft), 5th

International Congress of Ethnobotany (ICEB), Bariloche, Argentina, Recent research in

post-harvest traditions in human prehistory: Old and New World palaeoethnobotanical

approaches to linking the archaeology and ethnobotany of plant processing (participants

from Latin America, Europe and Japan). Included in the thematic session no 3: Las plantas y

el hombre en el pasado, published in the conference proceedings volume titled Traditions

and Transformation in Ethnobotany (Ladio et al. (eds) 2010).

http://www.archaeobotany.org/download/posters/valamoti_poster1_whv2010.jpg

2002: Session organiser, 8th EAA, Thessaloniki, Greece, Plant Remains in the Investigation of

Spatial Organization Archaeobotanical and Ethnoarchaeological Approaches

(participants from Greece, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Germany, Bulgaria, Russia,

the Netherlands and U.S.A.)

Institutional Responsibilities (selection): Election/promotion boards for academic staff members,

departmental staff committee member, Annual Studies Guidebook committee, responsible for

students with disabilities, Masters’ Students examiner, AUTH environmental policy board member,

Colloquia committee member, School of History and Archaeology (AUTH) external evaluation

committee 2015 (presentation of undergraduate studies)

Commissions of Trust: Reviewer for National Geographic Committee for Research and Exploration

projects; Referee for peer review journals: Antiquity, Food and History, Journal of Archaeological

Science, Environmental Archaeology, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Archaeological and

Anthropological Sciences, Human Ecology, Current Anthropology, Journal of African Archaeology

Career Breaks (maternity leaves during PhD): January 1995-September 1995, January 1998-

March 1999

Publications

I have published six research monographs and books (including peer- reviewed edited volumes) and

79 articles of which 25 are articles in peer-reviewed journals (11: main author, 12: co-author, 2:

with supervised students), 21 articles in peer-reviewed volumes (1 with supervised student), 24

articles in collective volumes, 3 book reviews, 3 books/monographs and 3 peer review edited

volumes. My work has been cited 305 times (excluding self citations, based on Google Scholar).

Scopus citation index is (7).

Selected publications

Books

-Valamoti, S.M, Bittman, F. 2015. Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the International Work

Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Thessaloniki 2013. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 24.

-Capparelli, A, Valamoti, S.M., Wollstonecroft, M. (eds.) 2011. After the Harvest: investigating the

role of food processing in past human societies. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Volume 3 (1)

-Valamoti, S.M, 2009. Η Αρχαιοβοτανική Έρευνα της Διατροφής στην Προϊστορική Ελλάδα (An

Archaeobotanical Investigation of Prehistoric Diet in Greece, in Greek). Thessaloniki: University

Studio Press. (in Greek, revised version titled Seedy Tastes is in preparation and will be published

by Oxbow Books in 2016).

-Valamoti S.M. 2004. Plants and People in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Northern Greece:

Anarchaeobotanical investigation. B.A.R. International Series 1258. Oxford, B.A.R. [19]

Peer reviewed articles

-Valamoti, S.M. 2015. Harvesting the ‘wild’? Exploring the context of fruit and nut exploitation at

Neolithic Dikili Tash, with special reference to wine. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 24,

35-46

Valamoti, S.M. 2013. Millet the late comer: on the tracks of Panicum miliaceum in prehistoric

Greece. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, DOI 10.1007/s12520-013-0152-5 [7]

-Valamoti, S.M. 2013. Healing with plants in Prehistoric Northern Greece: a contribution from

archaeobotany. Offa 69/70 (2012/2013), 479-494

-Valamoti, S.M., 2013. Towards a distinction between digested and undigested glume bases in the

archaeobotanical record from Neolithic northern Greece. A preliminary experimental investigation.

Environmental Archaeology18, 31-42 [6]

-Valamoti, S.M., Chondrou, D, Papadopoulou, L. 2013. Plant food processing and ground stone

equipment in prehistoric Greece: an experimental investigation using seeds of einkorn and grass-

pea. In Anderson P, Cheval, C. Durand, A. (eds) An interdisciplinary focus on plant-working tools,

Proceedings of the 33rd International meeting of Archaeology and History, Antibes, 23-25 October

2012, 169-187. Antibes, APDCA. [2]

-Valamoti, S.M. 2011. Ground cereal food preparations from Greece: the prehistory and modern

survival of traditional Mediterranean ‘fast foods’. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 3

(1): 19-39 [9]

-Valamoti, S.M., Moniaki, A., Karathanou, A. 2011. An investigation of processing and

consumption of pulses among prehistoric societies: archaeobotanical, experimental and

ethnographic evidence from Greece. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 20,5, 381-396 [8]

-Valamoti, S.M., Samuel, D., Bayram, M., Marinova, E. 2008. Prehistoric cereal foods from

Greece and Bulgaria: Investigation of starch microstructure in experimental and archaeological

charred remains. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17, suppl. 1, 265-276 [17]

-Valamoti, S.M. 2007. Detecting seasonal movement from animal dung. An investigation in

Neolithic northern Greece. Antiquity 81, 1053-1064 [13]

Valamoti, S. M. and Kotsakis, K. 2007. Transitions to agriculture in the Aegean: the

archaeobotanical evidence. In S. Colledge and J. Conolly (eds.), The Origin and Spread of

Domestic Plants in SW Asia and Europe. Institute of Archaeology, London [16]

-Valamoti, S.M., Mangafa, M., Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, Ch., Malamidou, D. 2007. Grape-pressings

from northern Greece: the earliest wine in the Aegean? Antiquity 81, 54-61 [25]

-Valamoti, S.M. 2005. Grain versus chaff: identifying a contrast between grain-rich and chaff-

rich sites in the Neolithic of northern Greece. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 14, 259-267

[13]

-Jones G. and Valamoti, S.M. 2005. Lallemantia, an imported or introduced oil plant in Bronze

Age northern Greece. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 14, 571-577 [14]

-Valamoti, S.M. and Charles, M. 2005. Distinguishing food from fodder through the study of

charred plant remains: an experimental approach to dung-derived chaff. Vegetation History and

Archaeobotany 14, 528-533 [17]

-Valamoti, S.M., 2002. Food remains from Bronze Age Archondiko and Mesimeriani Toumba in

northern Greece? Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 11, 17-22 [25]

-Jones, G., Valamoti, S., Charles, M. 2000. Early crop diversity: a "new" glume wheat from

northern Greece. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 9, 133-146 [56]

-Valamoti S. M., and P.C. Buckland, 1995. An Early Find of Oryzaephilus surinamensis (L.)

(Coleoptera: Silvanidae) from Final Neolithic Mandalo, Macedonia, Greece. Journal of stored

Products 31, 4, 307-309 [16]

Full Publications list

Research monographs and books (including peer- reviewed edited volumes)

Valamoti, S.M, Bittman, F. 2015. Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the International Work

Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Thessaloniki 2013. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 24.

Voutsaki, S., Valamoti, S.M. 2013. Diet, Economy and Society in the Anciet Greek World:

Towards a better integration of archaeology and science. Pharos Supplements 1. Peeters, Leuven.

Capparelli, A, Valamoti, S.M., Wollstonecroft, M. (eds.) 2011. After the Harvest: investigating the

role of food processing in past human societies. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Volume 3 (1)

Valamoti, S.M, 2009. Η Αρχαιοβοτανική Έρευνα της Διατροφής στην Προϊστορική Ελλάδα (An

Archaeobotanical Investigation of Prehistoric Diet in Greece, in Greek). Thessaloniki: University

Studio Press. (in Greek, revised version titled Seedy Tastes is in preparation and will be published

by Oxbow Books in 2016).

Valamoti, S.M, 2006. Η συμβολή των αρχαιοβοτανικών καταλοίπων στη διερεύνηση των

εκτεταμένων οικισμών: τα δεδομένα από το νεολιθικό οικισμό Άψαλος-Γραμμή (The contribution

of archaeobotanical evidence to the investigation of flat-extended settlements). EGNATIA (Annals

of the Dept. of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) 10, 9-130

Valamoti S.M. 2004. Plants and People in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Northern Greece:

Anarchaeobotanical investigation. B.A.R. International Series 1258. Oxford, B.A.R. [19]

Publications in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings

[ ] = number of citations based on data from Scopus or Google Scholar, excluding self citations)

-Valamoti, S.M., Darcque, P., Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, Ch., Malamidou, D., Tsirtsoni, Z., in press.

An archaeobotanical investigation of prehistoric grape vine exploitation and wine making in

northern Greece: recent finds from Dikili Tash. In Olive Oil and Wine Production in Eastern

Mediterranean during Antiquity, Istanbul, Ege Yayınları

-Valamoti, S.M. 2015. Harvesting the ‘wild’? Exploring the context of fruit and nut exploitation at

Neolithic Dikili Tash, with special reference to wine. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 24,

35-46

-Valamoti, S.M., Bittmann, F. 2015. Proceedings of the 16th conference of the International Work

Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Thessaloniki 2013. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 24, 5-7.

-Pagnoux, C. Bouby L., Ivorra S., Petit C., Valamoti S.-M., Pastor Th., Picq S., Terral J.F. 2015.

Inferring the agrobiodiversity of Vitis vinifera L. in ancient Greece by comparative shape analysis

of archaeological and modern seeds Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 24, [2]

-Styring, A.K, Fraser, R.E, Arbogast, R-M, Halstead, P., Isaakidou, V., Pearson, J., Shäfer, M.,

Triantaphyllou, S, Valamoti, S.M., Wallace, M., Bogaard, A., Evershed, R. 2015. Refining human

palaeodietary reconstruction using amino acid δ15N values of plants, animals and humans. Journal

of Archaeological Science , 53, 504-515 [2]

-Marinova, E., Valamoti, S.M. 2014. Crop diversity and choices in the prehistory of SE Europe:

the archaeobotanical evidence from Greece and Bulgaria. In Chevalier, A. Marinova, E., Peña-

Chocarro, L. (eds.) Plants and people: choices and diversity through time, . Oxbow, Oxford

-Valamoti, S.M. 2013. Millet the late comer: on the tracks of Panicum miliaceum in prehistoric

Greece. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, DOI 10.1007/s12520-013-0152-5 [7]

-Valamoti, S.M. 2013. Healing with plants in Prehistoric Northern Greece: a contribution from

archaeobotany. Offa 69/70 (2012/2013), 479-494

-Valamoti, S.M., 2013. Towards a distinction between digested and undigested glume bases in the

archaeobotanical record from Neolithic northern Greece. A preliminary experimental investigation.

Environmental Archaeology18, 31-42 [6]

-Valamoti, S.M., Chondrou, D, Papadopoulou, L. 2013. Plant food processing and ground stone

equipment in prehistoric Greece: an experimental investigation using seeds of einkorn and grass-

pea. In Anderson P, Cheval, C. Durand, A. (eds) An interdisciplinary focus on plant-working tools,

Proceedings of the 33rd International meeting of Archaeology and History, Antibes, 23-25 October

2012, 169-187. Antibes, APDCA. [2]

-Karamitrou-Mentessidi, G., Efstratiou, N., Kozłowski, J., Kaczanowska, M., Maniatis, Y., Curci,

A., Michalopoulou, S., Papathanasiou, A., Valamoti, S.M. 2013. New evidence on the beginning of

farming in Greece: The Early Neolithic settlement of Mavropigi in western Macedonia (Greece).

Project Gallery article - Issue 336, June 2013. http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/mentessidi336/ [2]

-Voutsaki, S., Valamoti, S.M. 2013. Towards a better integration of Archaeology and Science in

the study of ancient diet: an introduction. In Voutsaki, S., Valamoti, S.M. (eds.) Diet, Economy

and Society in the Anciet Greek World: Towards a Better Integration of Archaeology and Science.

Peeters, Leuven. Pharos supplement.

-Andreou, S., Heron, C., Jones, G., Kiriatzi, V., Psaraki, K., Roumpou, M., Valamoti, S.M. 2013.

Smelly barbarians or perfumed natives? An investigation of oil and ointment use in Late Bronze

Age northern Greece. In Voutsaki, S., Valamoti, S.M. (eds.) Diet, Economy and Society in the

Anciet Greek World: Towards a Better Integration of Archaeology and Science. Peeters, Leuven.

Pharos supplement.

-Papathanasiou, A., Theodoropoulou, T., Valamoti, S.M. 2013. The quest for prehistoric meals:

towards an understanding of past diets in the Aegean: Integrating stable isotope analysis,

archaeobotany and zooarchaeology. In Voutsaki, S., Valamoti, S.M. (eds.) Diet, Economy and

Society in the Anciet Greek World: Towards a Better Integration of Archaeology and Science.

Peeters, Leuven. Pharos supplement.

-Papanthimou, A., Valamoti, S.M., Papadopoulou, E., Tsagkaraki, E., Voulgari, E. 2013. Food

storage in the context of an early Bronze Age household economy: New evidence from

Archondiko Giannitson. In Voutsaki, S., Valamoti, S.M. (eds.) Diet, Economy and Society in the

Anciet Greek World: Towards a Better Integration of Archaeology and Science. Peeters, Leuven

Pharos supplement.

-Pappa, M., Halstead, P., Kotsakis, K., Bogaard, A., Fraser, R., Isaakidou, V., Mainland, I.,

Mylona, D., Skourtopoulou, K., Triantaphyllou, S., Tsoraki, Ch., Urem-Kotsou, D., Valamoti,

S.M., Veropoulidou, R. 2013. The Neolithic site of Makriyalos, northern Greece: A reconstruction

of the social and economic structure of the settlement through a comparative study of the finds. In

Voutsaki, S., Valamoti, S.M. (eds.) Diet, Economy and Society in the Anciet Greek World:

Towards a Better Integration of Archaeology and Science. Peeters, Leuven Pharos supplement.

-Tiverios, Μ., Manakidou, Ε., Tsiafakis, D., Valamoti, S.M., Theodoropoulou, T., Gatzogia, E.

2013. Cooking in an Iron Age pit in northern Greece: an interdisciplinary approach. In Voutsaki,

S., Valamoti, S.M. (eds.) Diet, Economy and Society in the Anciet Greek World: Towards a

Better Integration of Archaeology and Science. Peeters, Leuven Pharos supplement.

-Valamoti, S.M. 2011. Ground cereal food preparations from Greece: the prehistory and modern

survival of traditional Mediterranean ‘fast foods’. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 3

(1): 19-39 [9]

-Valamoti, S.M. 2011. Flax in Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece: archaeobotanical evidence.

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 20,6, 549-560 [2]

-Valamoti, S.M., Moniaki, A., Karathanou, A. 2011. An investigation of processing and

consumption of pulses among prehistoric societies: archaeobotanical, experimental and

ethnographic evidence from Greece. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 20,5, 381-396 [8]

-Capparelli, A., Valamoti, S.M., Wollstonecroft, M.M. 2011. After the harvest: investigating the

role of food processing in past human societies. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 3, 1:

1-5 [6]

-Marinova, E., van der Valk, J.M.A., Valamoti, S.-M., Bretschneider, J. 2011. Experimental

approach for tracing olive processing residues in the archaeobotanical record with preliminary

examples from Tell Tweini, Syria. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 20, 5, 471-478 [2]

-Valamoti, S.M., Jones, G. 2010. Bronze and oil: a possible link between the introduction of tin

and Lallemantia to northern Greece. Annual of the British School at Athens85, 83-96 [2]

Capparelli, Α., Valamoti, S.M., Wollstonecroft, Μ. 2010. Recent research in post-harvest

traditions in human prehistory: Old and New World palaeoethnobotanical approaches to linking

the archaeology and ethnobotany of plant processing. In M.L. Pochettino, A.H.Ladio και

P.M.Arenas (eds.) Tradiciones et Transformaciones en Etnobotanica, Proceedings of the 5th ICEB,

International Congress of Ethnobotany, September 2009, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, 104.

Cyted, Jujuy

Valamoti, S.M. 2010. The prehistory and modern survival of bulk processing cereals for

piecemeal consumption: case studies from Greece. In M.L. Pochettino, A.H.Ladio και P.M.Arenas

(eds.) Tradiciones et Transformaciones en Etnobotanica, Proceedings of the 5th ICEB, International

Congress of Ethnobotany, September 2009, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, 128-132. Cyted,

Jujuy

-Valamoti, S.M. 2010. Αρχαιοβοτανική: Ερευνώντας την ανθρώπινη δραστηριότητα κατά το

παρελθόν μέσα από τα φυτά (Archaeobotany: Exploring human activity in the past through plants).

In I. Lyritzis and N. Zacharias (eds.) ΑρχαιοYλικά (Archaeomaterials), 573-609. Papazisis, Athens

-Valamoti, S.M. 2009. Plant Food Ingredients and ‘Recipes’ from Prehistoric Greece: the

archaeobotanical evidence. In J.P.Morel and A.M.Mercuri (eds.) Plants and Culture: Seeds of the

Cultural Heritage of Europe. Centro Europeo per i Beni Culturali Ravello, Edipuglia Bari.

-Valamoti, S.M., Samuel, D., Bayram, M., Marinova, E. 2008. Prehistoric cereal foods from

Greece and Bulgaria: Investigation of starch microstructure in experimental and archaeological

charred remains. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17, suppl. 1, 265-276 [17]

-Valamoti, S.M., Papanthimou, A., Pilali, A. 2008. Cooking ingredients from Bronze Age

Archondiko: the archaeobotanical evidence. In Y. Facorellis, N. Zacharias, K. Polikreti (eds.)

Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry, National

Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens 28-31 May 2003, 187-194. B.A.R 1746. Oxford,

Archaeopress

-Valamoti, S.M. 2007. Detecting seasonal movement from animal dung. An investigation in

Neolithic northern Greece. Antiquity 81, 1053-1064.[13]

-Valamoti, S. M. 2007. Traditional foods and culinary novelties in Neolithic and Bronze Age

northern Greece: an overview of the archaeobotanical evidence. In C. Mee and J. Renard (eds.),

Cooking up the Past: Food and Culinary Practices in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean, 89-

107. Oxford, Oxbow Books [5]

-Valamoti, S. M. 2007. Food across borders: a consideration of the Neolithic and Bronze Age

archaeobotanical evidence from northern Greece. In I. Galanaki, H.Tomas, Y.Galanakis, R.

Laffineur (eds.) Between the Aegean and Baltic Seas: Prehistory across Borders. Aegeum 30, 281-

293

-Valamoti, S. M. 2007. Agriculture and use of space at Promachon/Topolnitsa: preliminary

observations on the archaeobotanical material. In M. Stefanovich, H. Todorova, G. Ivanov (eds.)

The Struma/Strymon River Valley in Prehistory. Proceedings of the conference «Strymon

Praehistoricus», 27 September – 1 October 2004, Blagoevgrad, 523-529. In the Steps of James

Harvey Gaul, vol. 2, The James Harvey Gaul Foundation, Sofia

-Valamoti, S. M. and Kotsakis, K. 2007. Transitions to agriculture in the Aegean: the

archaeobotanical evidence. In S. Colledge and J. Conolly (eds.), The Origin and Spread of

Domestic Plants in SW Asia and Europe. Institute of Archaeology, London [16]

-Valamoti, S.M., Mangafa, M., Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, Ch., Malamidou, D. 2007. Grape-pressings

from northern Greece: the earliest wine in the Aegean? Antiquity 81, 54-61 [25]

-Valamoti, S.M. 2005. Grain versus chaff: identifying a contrast between grain-rich and chaff-

rich sites in the Neolithic of northern Greece. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 14, 259-267

[13]

-Jones G. and Valamoti, S.M. 2005. Lallemantia, an imported or introduced oil plant in Bronze

Age northern Greece. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 14, 571-577 [14]

-Valamoti, S.M. and Charles, M. 2005. Distinguishing food from fodder through the study of

charred plant remains: an experimental approach to dung-derived chaff. Vegetation History and

Archaeobotany 14, 528-533 [17]

-Valamoti, S.M. 2003. Neolithic and Early Bronze Age ‘food’ from northern Greece: the

archaeobotanical evidence. In M. Parker-Pearson (ed.), Food, Culture and Identity in the Neolithic

and Early Bronze Age, 97-111. B.A.R. 1117 [4]

-Valamoti, S. M. and Jones, G. 2003. Plant diversity and storage at Mandalo, Macedonia, Greece:

archaeobotanical evidence from the Final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Annual of the British

School at Athens 98, 1-35 [11]

-Valamoti, S.M., 2002. Food remains from Bronze Age Archondiko and Mesimeriani Toumba in

northern Greece? Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 11, 17-22 [25]

-Valamoti, S. M., 2002. Investigating the prehistoric bread of northern Greece the

archaeobotanical evidence for the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. In Κ. Fechner and M. Mesnil

(eds.) Pain, fours et foyers domestiques des temps passés. Actes de la table ronde internationale de

Treignes, Civilisations 49, 49-66

-Jones, G., Valamoti, S., Charles, M. 2000. Early crop diversity: a "new" glume wheat from

northern Greece. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 9, 133-146 [56]

-Valamoti S. M. 1998. Plant remains from neolithic Makri. Στο Efstratiou et al. 1998, Excavations

at the Neolithic settlement of Makri, Thrace, Greece (1988-1996) – A preliminary report. Saguntum

31, 47-51

-Valamoti S. M., and P.C. Buckland, 1995. An Early Find of Oryzaephilus surinamensis (L.)

(Coleoptera: Silvanidae) from Final Neolithic Mandalo, Macedonia, Greece. Journal of stored

Products 31, 4, 307-309 [16]

Articles in non peer review journals

-Valamoti, S.M. και S. Anastasaki 2007. A Daily Bread – Prepared but Once a Year. Petits

Propos Culinaires 84, 75-100 [2]

-Valamoti S.M., Mangafa, M. 1996. Αρχαιοβοτανικά κατάλοιπα από το Ντικιλί Τας

(Archaeobotanical remains from Dikili Tash). ΠΑΕ 1993, 145-147

-Valamoti, S.M. 1992. Απανθρακωμένα φυτικά κατάλοιπα από την προϊστορική Θέρμη: μία

προκαταρκτική μελέτη (Charred plant remains from prehistoric Thermi: a preliminary examination,

in Greek). Μακεδονικά 18, 443-455

Articles in collective volumes and excavation monographs

Valamoti, S. M. in press. Άνθρωποι και φυτά στην ευρύτερη περιοχή της Έδεσσας κατά τη

Νεολιθική και την Εποχή του Χαλκού: Τα αρχαιοβοτανικά δεδομένα από την Άψαλο, το Μάνδαλο

και το Αρχοντικό Γιαννιτσών (Plants and People in the wider region of Edessa during the

Neolithic and the Bronze Age: the archaeobotanical evidence from Apsalos, Mandalo and

Archondiko Giannitson, in Greek). In M. Tiverios and A. Chrysostomou (eds.) Η Έδεσσα και η

Περιοχή της (Edessa and its Region), 203-209. Έδεσσα.

-Darcque, P., Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, Ch., Malamidou, D., Tsirtsoni Z., in press. Προϊστορικός

οικισμός Φιλίππων-Ντικιλί Τας: η ανασκαφή του 2010 (Prehistoric settlement of Philippoi-Dikili

Tash: the 2010 excavation). AEMTH 2010.

- Grinter, P. Valamoti S. M. 2014. Chapter 14: The carbonised plant remains. In M Parker Pearson

and M Zvelebil (authors) Excavations at Cill Donnain: A Bronze Age Settlement and Iron Age

Wheelhouse in South Uist. Oxford, Oxbow Books

http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/excavations-at-cill-donnain.html

Valamoti, S.M. 2010. Μαγειρεύοντας τα δημητριακά στην προϊστορική Μακεδονία (Cookin

cereals in prehistoric Macedonia, in Greek). In Merousis, N., Stefani, L., Nikolaidou, M. (eds.)

Iris: Studies in Memory of Prof. Angeliki Pilali-Papasteriou 35-58. Thessaloniki, Cornelia

Sfakianaki

-Valamoti, S.M 2001. Φαρμακευτικά και αρωματικά φυτά στην προϊστορική βόρεια Ελλάδα: τα

αρχαιοβοτανικά δεδομένα (Medicinal and aromatic plants in prehistoric northern Greece: the

archaeobotanical evidence). In Aromatic and Medicinal Plants: traditional Uses and potential for

exploitation, 23-38. Athens, ETBA publications [2]

-Valamoti, S.M 1999. The plant remains from Makriyalos: preliminary observations. Στον τόμο P.

Hastead (επιμ.), Neolithic Society in Greece, 136-138. Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press.

-Valamoti, S.M. 2011. Σπόροι για νεκρούς; Αρχαιοβοτανικά δεδομένα από τη Μαυροπηγή

Κοζάνης, θέση Φυλλοτσαΐρι (Grain for the dead? Archaeobotanical remains from Mavropigi

Kozanis, Phylotsairi, in Greek). The Archaeological Work in Upper Macedonia 1, 2009, 245-256.

-Karathanou, A., Valamoti, S.M. 2011. Η αρχαιοβοτανική έρευνα στη νεολιθική θέση Κρεμαστή

Κοιλάδας (Archaeobotanical research at the neolithic settlement of Kremasti Koiladas, in Greek).

AEMTH 22, 2008, 57-70.

-Valamoti, S.M. 2010. Η ανθρώπινη δραστηριότητα στο Αγγελοχώρι μέσα από τα φυτά και τις

χρήσεις τους: η συμβολή των αρχαιοβοτανικών δεδομένων (Human activity at Angelochori

through plants and their uses: the contribution of archaeobotanical remains, in Greek). In E. Stefani

(ed.) Angelochori Emathias: a Late Bronze Age Settlement, Volume 1, 171-197, 269-288, 327-

330. Thessaloniki, Kyriakides publications.

-Valamoti, S.M. 2006. Η διατροφή στη βόρεια Ελλάδα κατά την προϊστορική περίοδο, με έμφαση

στα φυτικά συστατικά της διατροφής (Prehistoric diet in northern Greece in prehistory with an

emphasis on plant ingredients, in Greek). ΑΕΜΤΗ 18, 2004, 417-430

-Stefani, L, Valamoti, S.M., Konstandinidou Α. 2006. Το ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα του

προϊστορικού οικισμού Αγγελοχωρίου: Οι γεωργοκτηνοτροφικές δραστηριότητες και οι

διατροφικές συνήθειες στο Αγγελοχώρι της ΥΕΧ (The prehistoric settlement of Angelochori

research project-agropastoral activites and dietary habits, in Greek). AEMTH 18, 2004, 433-438.

-Valamoti, S.M. 2005. Αρχαιοβοτανικά δεδομένα από το Καραμπουρνάκι: μια προκαταρκτική

έκθεση των ευρημάτων (Archaeobotanical remains from Karabournaki: a preliminary examination

of the finds, in Greek). AEMTH 17, 2003, 201-204.

-Valamoti, S.M.., Papanthimou, Α. Pilali, Α. 2005. Προϊστορικά μαγειρέματα στην Τούμπα του

Αρχοντικού Γιαννιτσών: τα αρχαιοβοτανικά δεδομένα (Prehistoric cooking at Archondiko

Giannitson, in Greek). AEMTH 17, 2003, 497-503.

-Valamoti, S.M. 2003. Προκαταρκτικές παρατηρήσεις για το αρχαιοβοτανικό υλικό από τον

νεολιθικό οικισμό βόρεια της Αψάλου (θέση Γραμμή), ανασκαφική περίοδος 2001 (παράρτημα)

(Preliminary observations on the plant remains from neolithic Apsalos-Grammi, excavation season

2001-appendix, in Greek). AEMTH 15, 2001, 521-522

-Valamoti, S.M. 2002. Απανθρακωμένα αρχαιοβοτανικά κατάλοιπα από τη Μεσημεριανή

Τούμπα: προκαταρκτικές παρατηρήσεις Παράρτημα Γ’. (Charred plant remains from Mesimeriani

Toumba: preliminary observations, appendix C). In Grammenos, D, V, Kotsos, S. (eds), Ανασκαφή

στον Προϊστορικό Οικισμό «Μεσημεριανή Τούμπα» Τριλόφου, Ν. Θεσσαλονίκης, Ανασκαφικές

Περίοδοι 1992, 1994-1996, 2000, 2001, 315-319. Thessaloniki, Archaeological Institute of

Northern Greece.

-Mangafa, M., Koukouli, Ch, Malamidou, D., Valamoti, S.M. 2002. Νεολιθικός οίνος:

αρχαιολογικές μαρτυρίες από τον προϊστορικό οικισμό Φιλίππων «Ντικιλί Τας» (Neolithic wine:

archaeological evidence from the prehistoric settlement of Philippoi-Dikili Tash, in Greek).

Proceedings of the 9th Work-Shop of the ETBA foundation on Art and Techniques of Grapevines

and Vineyards of Northern Greece, 21-35. Αθήνα, Π.Τ.Ι. ΕΤΒΑ.

-Valamoti, S.M. 1999. Αρχοντικό 1997: προκαταρκτικά δεδομένα από την αρχαιοβοτανική

έρευνα στον οικισμό, Παράρτημα. (Archondiko 1997: preliminary evidence from the

archaeobotanical research at the settlement-appendix, in Greek). AEMTH 11, 172-175

-Valamoti, S.M. 1998. Αγροτικές δραστηριότητες και διατροφή στο Νεολιθικό οικισμό του

Αρκαδικού Δράμας: μία προκαταρκτική εξέταση των αρχαιοβοτανικών δεδομένων (Agricultural

activities and diets at the Neolithic settlement of Arkadikos at Drama: a preliminary examination

of the archaeobotanical finds, in Greek). Proceedings of the second meeting Drama and its Region,

129-137. Drama, DEKPOTA.

-Valamoti, S.M. 1998. Η επεξεργασία της τροφής κατά τη Νεολιθική και την Εποχή του Χαλκού:

τα αρχαιοβοτανικά δεδομένα (processing of food during the Neolithic and the Early Bronze: the

archaeobotanical evidence, in Greek). Ancient Greek Technology, 249-257. Thessaloniki,

Technical Museum of Thessaloniki.

-Valamoti, S.M. 1998. Η εκμετάλλευση της αμπέλου στο χώρο της Μακεδονίας και της Θράκης

κατά τη Νεολιθική και την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Χαλκού (The exploitation of the grapevine in

Macedonia and Thrace during the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age, in Greek). Viti- and

Vinicultural History in Macedonia and Thrace, 137-149. Athens, ETBA Foundation

-Valamoti, S.M. 1997. Αρχαιοβοτανικά κατάλοιπα από τον οικισμό του Αρχοντικού: ανασκαφική

περίοδος Σεπτεμβρίου 1993 (Archaeobotanical remains from Archondiko: excavation season

September 1993, in Greek). ΑΕΜΘ 7, 1993, 155-158.

-Valamoti, S.M. 1996. Αρχαιοβοτανικές έρευνες στον προϊστορικό οικισμό Μακρυγιάλου

(Archaeobotanical research at the prehistoric settlement of Makriyalos, in Greek). AEMTH 10Α,

1996, 270-272.

-Valamoti, S.M., 1995. Γεωργικά προϊόντα από το νεολιθικό οικισμό Γιαννιτσά Β: μία

προκαταρκτική προσέγγιση μέσω των αρχαιοβοτανικών δεδομένων (Agricultural products from

the neolithic settlement of Giannitsa B: a preliminary approach through the archaeobotanical

remins, in Greek). AEMTH 6, 1992, 177-184.

-Vargas A., Κ. Touloumis, Ι. Anagnostou, S.M. Valamoti, R. Christidou, 1995. Ανασκαφές στην

Προϊστορική Τούμπα Αρκαδικού Δράμας (Excavations at the prehistoric settlement of Arkadikos

Dramas, in Greek). AEMTH 6, 1992, 577-585.

-Valamoti, S.M. 1994. Η Επεξεργασία και η αποθήκευση του σίτου μέσα από τα αρχαιοβοτανικά

δεδομένα: μία εισαγωγή (Processing and storing wheat: archaeobotanical evidence, in Greek). Our

Bread: from Wheat to Bread, 46-54. Athens, ETBA Foundation

-Valamoti, S.M. 1993. Απανθρακωμένα αρχαιοβοτανικά κατάλοιπα από τον οικισμό Γιαννιτσών

Β, Επίμετρο (Charred plant remains from Giannitsa B, appendix, in Greek). AEMTH 4, 1990, 177-

180.

Encyclopaedia contributions

-Valamoti, S.M. 2015. Legumes and Pulses. In Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia, edited by

Karen Bescherer Metheny and Mary C. Beaudry. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. In press.

-Valamoti, S.M. 2015. Oil-Bearing Seed Plants. In Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia, edited

by Karen Bescherer Metheny and Mary C. Beaudry. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. In press.

Book reviews

-Valamoti, S.M. 2013. John Bintliff. The complete archaeology of Greece: from hunter-gatherers

to the 20th century A.D. xxvi+518 pages. 157 illustrations, 5 tables, 43 colour plates. 2012.

Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; 978-1-4051-5418-5 hardback; 978-1-4051-5419-2 paperback £ 29.99.

Antiquity 87, 293-295

-Valamoti, S.M. 2009. Borojević, K. 2006. Terra and Silva in the Pannonian Plain. Opovo agro-

gathering in the Late Neolithic. BAR International Series 1563. Oxford: Archaeopress. 185 σελ.

ISBN: 1 84171 993 5.

-Valamoti, S.M. 2003. Vaughan, S. και Coulson, W. 2000. Palaeodiet in the Aegean (Wiener

Laboratory Monograph 1). Oxford, Oxbow. Environmental Archaeology 8, 2003, 191-192.

Invited talks

Invited Keynote speaker (disciplines other than Archaeology)

-2012 6th European Botanic Gardens Consortium (EUROGARD), Chios Island, May 2012. Key

note speaker: Plants and People in Prehistoric Northern Greece: the Archaeobotanical Evidence,

(Session 3: Plants and People: From Myth, History and Art to Science and Culture)

http://www.botanicgardens.eu/eurogard/eurogard6.htm

-2012 14th Conference of the Hellenic Scientific Society for Genetics and Plant Breeding,

Thessaloniki, October; Title: Archaeobotanical Investigations in the city and wider area of

Thessaloniki: the Prehistoric Period http://www.plantbreeding.gr/

-2009 3rd International Symposium on Saffron, Krokos Kozanis, May 2009; Title: Plants in

Prehistoric Societies of Greece with an emphasis on Crocus; http://www.ishs.org/symposium/129

Invited speaker (special seminars-selection)

-20.04.15, Basel, IPNA, Switzerland, Neolithic wine making in northern Greece: recent finds from

Dikili Tash https://ipna.unibas.ch/studium/Kraenzli-FS15.pdf

-02.03.15 Oxford, Institute of Archaeology, 02/03/2015, A sip of Neolithic wine: recent finds from

the north Aegean. Sponsored by the University of Oxford and the Association for Environmental

Archaeology

http://envarch.net/events/30/seminar-professor-soultana-valamoti-aristotle-university-of-

thessaloniki-a-sip-of-neolithic-wine-recent-finds-from-the-north-aegean/

-29.10.14 Vienna Academy of Sciences (OREA Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology),

Title: Iron Age plant subsistence and land use in SE Europe: cultural interactions detectable

through the archaeobotanical record of Greece and Bulgaria (with Dr Elena Marinova)

Invited presentations to international peer reviewed conferences

-02.05.15 Heidelberg, Germany, conference Social Dimensions of Food in the Prehistory of the

Eastern Balkans and Neighbouring Areas, http://uni-

heidelberg.academia.edu/MariaIvanova/Conferences; Research paper: Plant foods in daily meals

and feasting in prehistoric northern Greece

-19.03.15 Berlin, Frei Univer From Central Asia to the north Aegean? An achaeobotanical

investigation of Bronze Age crop introductions to northern Greece,

http://pages.wustl.edu/saie/articles/10425

-17.10.14 International conference ‘Country in the city: Forms and functions of agro-pastoral

activities in Mediterranean pre-Classical cities’, Marseille; research paper: Settlement space and

agricultural practices in Neolithic and Bronze Age northern Greece: an archaeobotanical

investigation

-03.05.14 Heidelberg Balkan Dialogues. Spatial Boundaries and Cultural Identities in the

Prehistoric Balkans Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg; research paper: Culinary

identities of prehistoric Greece: an archaeobotanical exploration

-28.09.2013 Faces of Time-Cultural Routes Crossroads: The Convergence of Cultural Routes and

the Impact on Heritage, Planning and Sustainability. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.

Research paper: Prehistoric grapevines and wines of northern Greece.

-13.12.12 14th ‘International Aegean Conference’ Physis, Paris; Research paper: Space through time

in Neolithic northern Greece: an archaeobotanical approach

-22-24.11.12 International Conference, 100 Years of Prehistoric Research in Macedonia.

Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece. Archaeobotanical Research in Prehistoric

Macedonia. http://www.livemedia.gr/album/704

-24.10.12 33rd International Meeting of Archaeology and History, Antibes, An interdisciplinary

focus on plant-working tools; Research paper: Processing pulses in Prehistoric Northern Greece :

an experimental approach integrating plant remains and stone tools.

-18.11.2011 International Symposium, Olive Oil and Wine Production in Eastern Mediterranean

during Antiquity. Urla, Turkey. Research paper: An archaeobotanical investigation of prehistoric

grape vine exploitation and wine making in northern Greece: recent finds from Dikili Tash

-20.09.10 International Archaeobotany Symposium, ‘Roles of Millets in the History of Human

Society’, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Tokyo, Japan; Research paper:

Archaeobotanical evidence for Panicum miliaceum in prehistoric Greece

-01.07.10 International Workshop ‘Bioarchaeological research on animal dung: possibilities and

imitations’, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels; Research paper: Towards a

distinction between digested and undigested glume bases in the archaeobotanical record: An

experimental approach

-29.06.10 Second Flax Workshop- Interdisciplinary FLAX-network (Danish Research Council),

Copenhagen; Research paper: Archaeobotanical evidence for the cultivation and use of flax in

Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece

-4.06.10 15th International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Wilhelmshaven; research paper:

‘Processing and consumption of pulses in prehistoric Greece: archaeobotanical, experimental and

ethnographic evidence’

-22-24.03.10. International Conference, Substistence, Economy and Society in the Greek World:

Improving the Ιntegration of Αrchaeology and Science, Athens. Participation with four oral

presentations published in 2013.

-2009 5th International Conference of Ethnobotany (ICEB), The prehistory and modern survival of

bulk processing cereals for piecemeal consumption: case studies from Greece, San Carlos de

Bariloche, Argentina

-14.05.08 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, Siena; research paper: ‘An investigation

of prehistoric cereal food: starch microstructure in experimental and archaeological charred plant

remains’

-21-23.09.2007. International Conference for Wine in Ancient Greece and Cyprus Wine

Confessions: production, trade and social significance of wine in ancient Greece and Cyprus),

Ikaria island, The exploitation of the grape-vine in prehistoric and early historic northern Greece:

the archaeobotanical evidence

-19.06.07 14th International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany Krakow; research paper:

Prehistoric cereal grain treatment in Greece and Bulgaria: experimental cereal processing and

charring to interpret archaeobotanical remains

-06.2006. Workshop on New Technologies and Culinary Practices in Ancient Greece,

Environmental Archaeology Group, Kapodistriako Panepistimio of Athens and Mediterranean

Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development - MIO-ECSDE).

Presentation title: In search of ancient food recipes in northern Greece: the contribution of

archaeobotany

-11-14.04.2005. International Conference: Between the Aegean and Baltic Seas: Prehistory across

Borders. Bronze and Early Iron Age Interconnections and Contemporary Develοpments between

the Aegean and the regions of the Balkan Peninsula, Central and Northern Europe, Zagreb-

Croatia, research paper Food across borders: a consideration of the Neolithic and Bronze Age

archaeobotanical evidence from northern Greece

-27.09-01.10.2004. International Conference Strymon Praehistorikos, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.

Research paper: Agriculture and use of space at Promachon/Topolnitsa: preliminary observations

on the archaeobotanical material.

-18.05.2004 13th International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Girona; research papers a)

‘Grain versus chaff: identifying a contrast between grain-rich and chaff-rich sites in the Neolithic

of northern Greece’ and b) Lallemantia, an imported or introduced oil plant in Bronze Age

northern Greece

-23.04.2004 International Symposium ‘Autour de la Cuisine: les pratiques alimentaires au

Neolithique et l’Age du Bronze dans le monde Egéen’, Blaisse Pascal and Liverpool

Universities, Clermont Ferrand. Research paper: Traditional foods and culinary novelties in

Neolithic and Bronze Age northern Greece: an overview of the archaeobotanical evidence

-28-31.05.2003. 4th International Conference of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry. Athens.

Research paper: Cooking ingredients from Bronze Age Archondiko, the archaeobotanical

evidence, with A. Papanthimou and A. Pilali

-24-29.09.2002. 8th International Conference, European Association of Archaeologists,

Thessaloniki. Research paper: Who ate all the grain? An approach to settlement pattern in

Neolithic Northern Greece through charred plant remains

-June 2001. 12th Conference of the International Work-Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Sheffield,

UK. Research paper: Food remains from two bronze age sites in Macedonia, Greece?

-September 1997. 1st International Conference on Ancient Greek Technology, Thessaloniki.

Research paper: H επεξεργασία της τροφής κατά τους προϊστορικούς χρόνους: τα

αρχαιοβοτανικά δεδομένα από τον ελλαδικό χώρο (Food processing in prehistoric times: the

archaeobotanical evidence from Greece

-March 1997. 7th Workshop on Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, ETBA Foundation and Biological

Society of Cyprus. Research paper: Medicinal and aromatic plants in prehistoric northern

Greece: the archaeobotanical evidence

-November 1995. Workshop on Neolithic Society in Greece, Centre for Aegean Archaeology,

Sheffield University. Research paper: Charred plant remains from Makriyalos: preliminary

observations

Poster presentations at International Conferences

-31.5-5.06.2010. 15th Conference of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany. Poster

titles: a) Plant Processing around the Globe: Archaeobotanical, experimental and ethnobotanical

approaches (with Aylen Capparelli and Michele Wollstonecroft), b) Plant remains from an Iron Age

cooking installation at Karabournaki, northern Greece (with Eugenia Gkatzogia, PhD student), c)

Inferring the taphonomy of charred olive stones by comparing the anatomy of fracture surfaces

under different burning regimes (with E. Marinova and J. Van der Valk)

-22-24.03.2010. Substistence, Economy and Society in the Greek World: Improving the Ιntegration

of Αrchaeology and Science, Athens, Greece. Poster title: Cooking in an Iron Age pit in northern

Greece: an interdisciplinary approach (with M. Tiverios, E. Manakidou, D. Tsiafaki, S. Valamoti,

Α. Theodoropoulou, Ε. Gatzogia)

-12-18.05.2008. 37th International Conference on Archaeometry, Siena, Italy. Poster title: Detection

and identification of organic residues in ceramic vessels from Late Bronze Age Northern Greece: a

preliminary investigation of consumption and exchange of plant oils, with C. Heron, M. Roumpou,

G. Jones, S. Andreou.

-1-4.04.2008. Ancient World Systems: What Would a Bronze Age World System Look Like?

World systems approaches to Europe and western Asia 4th to 1st millennia BC., Sheffield, UK.

Poster title: Crossroads on the margin: contact networks in Final Neolithic and Bronze Age northern

Greece as seen through charred plant remains

-17-23.06.2007. 14th Conference International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Krakow,

Poland. Poster titles: a) Plant remains from Bronze Age Toumba Thessalonikis (together with D.

Kotsachristou, postgraduate student, and M. Mangafa†), b) Settlement pattern and sample

composition in the Neolithic of southeastern Europe (σε συνεργασία με Ε. Marinova και Κ.

Borojevic)

-05.2005. International Conference Mediterranean Crossroads, Pierides Museum, Athens. Poster

title: Crossroads of taste – Plant food introductions in prehistoric northern Greece

-3-5.10.2005. International Congress on Beer in Prehistory and Antiquity – in Memoriam to Dr

Jose Luis Maya, Barcelona, Spain. Poster title: Fermented beverages from prehistoric northern

Greece, with S. Andreou

-2-5.09.2004. International Conference, Economic and Environmental changes during the 4th and 3rd

millennium B.C., Bad Buchau, Germany. Association for Environmental Archaeology,

Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Würtenberg και Federseemuseum Bad Buchau. Poster title: Changing

landscapes, changing tastes in northern Greece during the 4th and 3rd millennia B.C.: the

archaeobotanical evidence

-16-22.05.2004. 13th Conference of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany». Girona,

Spain. Poster title: Distinguishing food from fodder through the study of charred plant remains: an

experimental approach to dung-derived chaff, with M.P.Charles

National and Regional Conferences

-1-3.03.2012. Προϊστορικός οικισμός Κλείτου Κοζάνης: Προκαταρκτικά αποτελέσματα από την

αρχαιοβοτανική έρευνα στον οικισμό (Prehistoric settlement of Kleitos Kozanis: preliminary results

of the archaeobotanical research at the site). 25th AEMTH (2011). With Hara Stylianakou

(postgraduate student)

-03. 2011. 24th AEMTH (2010). Prehistoric settlement of Philippoi-Dikili Tash, the 2010 excavation

season. With P. Darcque, Ch. Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, D. Malamidou, Z.Tsirtsoni.

-16-17.07.2011. 1st Symposium on Greek Gastronomy, Karanou, Chania, Crete. Paper title: Tastes

from seeds in prehistoric Greece

-21.10.2011. 1st Scientific meeting for Local Varieties, Agricultural University of Athens. Paper

presentation: Cultivating crop plants in Greece during prehistoric and early historic times.

-11-12.12.2010. Scientific meeting Edessa and its Region, History-Archaeology. Diet and

agriculture at Apsalos and Mandalo, the archaeobotanical remains

-23-24.-7. 2010. The Archaeological Work in Upper Macedonia, Aeani Kozanis. Paper title: Grain

for the dead?

-2-4.04.2009. 22nd AEMTH (2008). Archaeobotanical research at the neolithic settlement of

Kremasti Koiladas (with A. Karathanou, postgraduate student)

-28-29.03.2008. Environmental Archaeology Meeting, Dept. of Archaeology, Aristotle University

of Thessaloniki. Paper title: Stories from seeds: current state of the art in archaeobotanical research

in Greece

-07.01.2008. Meeting on Sciences and Archaeological Materials, Athens, Ministry of Culture. Paper

title: Archaeometry in practice and university teaching: the experience from the School of History

and Archaeology or the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

-02.2005. 18th AEMTH (2004). Paper titles: a) Prehistoric diet in northern Greece with an emphasis

on plant ingredients, in Greek and b) The prehistoric settlement of Angelochori research project-

agropastoral activites and dietary habits, in Greek.

-19.01.2005. Introductory Colloquium of the Dept. of Archaeology, Aristotle University of

Thessaloniki, Series title: Food from Prehistory to Medieval Times. Paper title: Prehistoric cooking

(in collaboration with the undergraduate students of the APR303 course: interdisciplinary studies in

Archaeology)

-02.2004. 17th AEMTH (2003). Paper titles: a) Prehistoric cooking at Archondiko Giannitson: the

archaeobtoanical remains. With A. Papanthimou and A. Pilali. b) Archaeobotanical remains from

Karabournaki: a preliminary examination of the finds, with M. Tiverios, E. Manakidou, D.

Tsiafakis.

-12.1999. Giannisa during Prehistoric times, Giannitsa Municipality. Paper title: Prehistoric

agriculture and plant exploitation in the region of Giannitsa: the archaeobotanical evidence

-07.1999. Art and Techniques of Grapevines and Vineyards of Northern Greece, Adriani, Drama,

ETBA Foundation. Η εκμετάλλευση της αμπέλου στο χώρο της Μακεδονίας και της Θράκης κατά

τη Νεολιθική και την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Χαλκού (The exploitation of the grapevine in Macedonia

and Thrace during the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age, in Greek).

-05.1994 2nd Symposium, Drama and its Region, Municipality of Drama. Paper title: Agricultural

activities and diets at the Neolithic settlement of Arkadikos at Drama: a preliminary examination of

the archaeobotanical finds, in Greek)

-09.1993. Grapevine and Wine History in Macedonia and Thrace, Naoussa, Fani Boutari

Foundation and ETBA Foundation. Paper title: Grapevine exploitation in Macedonia and Thrace

during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.

-01.1993. AEMTH 6 (1992) Paper title: Agricultural products from the neolithic settlement of

Giannitsa B: a preliminary approach through the archaeobotanical remins, in Greek

-04.1992. Symposium on Our Bread: From Wheat to Bread, ETBA Foundation and Loulis mills.

Paper title: Processing and storage of wheat as evidence by archaeobotanical remains: an

introduction

Articles for the wider public

-Valamoti, S.M. 2010. Γεύσεις και τοπία μέσα από τα προϊστορικά φυτά της Ελλάδας (Tastes and

landscapes from the prehistoric plants of Greece, in Greek and English). In, Ph. Giannissi and Z.

Kotionis (eds.) Κιβωτός: Παλαιοί Σπόροι για Νέες Καλλιέργειες (The Arc: Old Seeds for New

Cultivations). Athens, Ministry of Energy and Climatic Change, University of Thessaly

Publications. 12th Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Greek participation.

-Valamoti, S.M. 2010. Καλλιέργειες και τρόφιμα στην προϊστορική βόρεια Ελλάδα: Τα

αρχαιοβοτανικά δεδομένα (Crops and plant foods in prehistoric northern Greece: the

archaebotanical evidence, in Greek). In H. Efthymiopoulos (ed.), Πού Βαδίζει η Γεωργία; (Towards

which goal in Agriculture?) 41-44. Athens, Livanis publications.

-Valamoti, S.M. 2010. Τρόφιμα φυτικής προέλευσης στην προϊστορική βόρεια Ελλάδα (Plant

foods in prehistoric northern Greece, in Greek). In C. Gatzolis (ed Ο Πολιτισμός στο Τραπέζι

(Culture on Table), 25-38. Thessaloniki, University Studio Press.

-Valamoti, S.M. 2006. Τρόφιμα φυτικής προέλευσης στην προϊστορική βόρεια Ελλάδα (Plant

foods in prehistoric northern Greece, in Greek).

-Valamoti, S.M. 1997. Προϊστορική βοτανοθεραπεία: οι πιθανές χρήσεις των φαρμακευτικών και

αρωματικών φυτών στους προϊστορικούς χρόνους (Prehistoric herbal healing: the potential uses of

medicinal and aromatic plants in prehistoric times, in Greek). Εφημερίδα Καθημερινή (Kathimerini

newspaper), 29 June 1997.

-Valamoti, S.M., Mangafa, M. 1993. Σαράντα Αιώνες Κρασί (Forty Centuries of Wine, in Greek).

Εφημερίδα Καθημερινή, 17 Οκτωβρίου 1993.

Scientific results dissemination activities

I have been actively involved in dissemination of scientific results to the wider public through

publications addressed to non-specialist readership (see section above) and by collaborating with

museums, schools, ministries and local authorities, the media and press, NGOs and participation to

documentaries, seminars, open air events and exhibitions including hands-on and food tasting

events.

Teaching handbooks

June 2015. Featured National Geographic Explorer for National Geographic World History, an

educational program for middle school students.

Exhibitions

-2009-today. PACE: Plants and Culture: Seeds of the cultural heritage of Europe (2007-2013)

Invited participation (exhibition and special volume). Exhibition poster title: Vitis vinifera:

investigating the gift of Dionysus in prehistoric Greece

E-visit:http://www.plants-culture.unimore.it/information.htm

Exhibition presented at Nikopolis Archaeological Museum, Volos Archaeological Museum,

Archaeological Museum of Delphi, Museum of Natural History, Crete, Krakow, Budapest,

Barcelona, Istanbul, Sofia, Rome, Pompei, Carpineti (Regno Emilio), Fossanova, Modena, Matera,

Campobasso, Tulcea, Bergen, San Marino and Czestochowa

-August-November 2010. 12th International Architecture Exhibition, BIENNALE of Venice.

Participation to the special exhibition volume. Participation title: Tastes and landscapes through the

plants of prehistoric Greece

http://www.greekarchitects.gr/en/temporary/the-ark-old-seeds-for-new-cultures-id3129

http://www.arch.uth.gr/greekark/

-8-17.09. 2006. International Fair of Thessaloniki, HERMES program (GGET). Poster

presentation and leaflet distribution.

-2004-2006: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, collaborator on exhibition aspects related

to prehistoric agriculture and diet (with D. Grammenos and L. Stefani)

=2004: Archaeological Collection at Promachon/Serres. Text and images on agricultural practice

and plants in prehistory at the neolithic settlement Promachon/Topolnitsa

-2004: Noesis, Ancient Greek Technology Exhibition. Consultancy on agricultural practices and

diet in prehistory

Other events for the public: talks, leaflet dissemination, food tasting and hands-on activities

-04.06.2014 The contribution of Aromatic, Spicy and Medicinal Plants in Rural Development and

National Economy, Hellenic Ministry of Rural Development and Food, Athenais, Athens. Paper

presented: Medicinal and aromatic plants of prehistoric Greece: the archaeobotanical remains

-25.05.2013 Thesmophoria Event, Hellenic Ministry of Rural Development and Food, Acropolis

Museum, Athens. Paper presented: The beginnings of agriculture in Greece through

archaeobotanical remains

-05.06.2012. Anatolia preschool education program: Short talk and hands on presentation of

prehistoric plant food technologies: Prehistoric cooking: from seeds to prehistoric cuisine

-03.07.2012. Summer School on Seeds, Edessa, organised by AEGILOPS: Archaeobotanical

Research: the Prehistory of Seeds in Greece

-July 2008, 2009, 2010. Dispilio Excavation Summer School. Lectures on Archaeobotany,

flotation techniques demonstration.

-July 2010. 12th Ecological University, Agriculture on the Verge, Samothrace 5-23 July 2010,

DIPE (Interdisciplinary Institute for Environmental Research). Lecture title: Crops, cultivation and

food in prehistoric northern Greece: the archaeobotanical evidence.

-April 2010. 10th Panhellenic Celebration of Local Varieties Exchange, PELITI NGO, Mesochori,

Paranesti-Drama. Lecture title: plants in prehistoric diets in Greece.

-April 2009. 9th Panhellenic Celebration of Local Varieties Exchange, PELITI NGO, Timios

Prodromos Monastery, Anatoli Kissavos-Larissa. Lecture title: plants in prehistoric diets in Greece.

-July 2008. Days of the Old Wheat: Knowing the Land and its People. AEGILOPS NGO,

Palatiano archaeological site, Kilkis 11-13 July 2008. Lecture title: Prehistoric agriculture in

Macedonia.

-October 2007. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Title: Prehistoric diet in northern

Greece.

-December 2006. Division of Elementary Education, Ministry of Education, Seminar on Health

Education, Kavala, 6 December. Lecture: Prehistoric plants in the diets of prehistoric inhabitants of

Greece.

-June 2006. Myths to the Light, Tellogleio Foundation, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,

Thessaloniki, June 26 2006. Event organised by the Department of Archaeology. Presentation of

Archaeobotanical research at the Dept. o Archaeology, School of History and Archaeology,

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

-September 2005 (23-25.9.05). Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, European Heritage

Days special Theme: Culture on the Table. Lecture title: The contribution of plants in the diets of

prehistoric inhabitants of northern Greece

-January-February 2005. Two Special Prehistoric Food Colloquium and food tasting events,

organised by S.M.Valamoti and her undergraduate students at the Dept. of Archaeology, Aristotle

University of Thessaloniki: a) Food Colloquium series, Diet from Prehistory to Medieval Time and

b) the 18th AEMTH conference (in collaboration with P. Adam-Veleni)

-June 2005 Colloquium series, Diet from Prehistory to Medieval Times, Aristotle University of

Thessaloniki, Department of Archaeology. Cooking the Cooking 'stuff'. In collaboration with

Nora Skouteri-Didaskalou. Closing lecture of the Colloquia series, organized by S.M.Valamoti

Open-air events

May-June 2012. Sundays at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (ΑΠΘ την Κυριακή), creative

workshop titled: From the Stereomicroscope to the prehistoric kitchens: a journey to prehistoric

tastes of northern Greece through the excavated seeds. It involved distribution of educational

leaflets, food-tasting, hands on processing of prehistoric plant food ingredients.

Media

Documentaries

Documentary film by Julie Perron (Vivre avec la Terre):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5ecNB2CbE

Television, Radio and the Press

Participation in many TV and Radio programs (selection)

15.03.2015. SKY TV, Istories Gis by A. Barboutsis. A presentation of plant remains from

Makriyalos, http://www.skai.gr/tv/show/?showid=65802 (34')

04.11.2012. ΣΚΑΪ 100.3. http://www.skai.gr/1003/shows/show/?rshowid=65426 Greek diet from

prehistory to modern times. The Neolithic

11.11.2012. SKY Radio 100.3 http://www.skai.gr/1003/shows/show/?rshowid=65426 Greek diet

from prehistory to modern times. The Bronze Age

30.07.2012. NET Morning News, Dikili Tash early wine making presentation

10.06.2012. Presentation of Aristotle University 'Sundays' event by NET TV

11.06.2012. 5+ Magazino, TV show by Elsa Poimenidou

May 2011. NET, Kivotos Documentary series, Documentary on Peliti community, by K. Patroni,

29.04.2010. Interview to Nikos Aslanidis, TV series True Scenarios, ERT3. Special mission on

PELITI community.

2008. Discovery Channel News and Frankfurter Allgemeiner Sonntagszeitung, 26/10/2008:

Presentation of processed cereal finds published in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/24/cereal-

neolithic.htmlhttp://www.faz.net/aktuell/finanzen/2.3017/nachrichten-11398265.html

https://ancientfoods.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/instant-porridge-8000-years-old/

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/10/27/2402027.htm; World Archaeology News 28

October 2008; http://www.archaeology.ws/2008-10-28.htm

2007. Discovery Channel News: Presentation of the Dikili Tash grape wine finds published in

Antiquity. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/03/16/oldgrapes_arc.html

http://archaeology.about.com/od/wterms/qt/wine.htm

http://z13.invisionfree.com/free_from_CDV_OT/index.php?showtopic=2862

https://archive.is/99mP4

04.2005. Prehistoric Cooking, ARMONIA journal. Four page special article on archaeobotanical

research in northern Greece, based on lecture and presentation of students' posters at the 18th

AEMTH conference in Thessaloniki.

02.2005. Interviews to ERT3, NET TV programs and ERA/NET and SKY radio programs on the

occasion of the 18th AEMTH conference where a lecture students' posters were presented with a

food tasting event, attracting wide media and press attention.

January-February 2005. Wide press coverage of national and international press of Special

Prehistoric Food Colloquium and food tasting event, organised by S.M.Valamoti and her

undergraduate students at the Dept. of Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and during

the 18th AEMTH conference

ETHNOS Newspaper 22.1.05, p. 25

TA NEA Newspaper, 9.2.05, p. 22

ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ Newspaper, 9.2.05, p. Α27

APOGEVMATINI Newspaper, 12.2.05, p. 15)

Associated Press webpages, 14.2.05, «Ancient Greek Recipes Make a Comeback»

Athens News Agency: News in Greek, 12.2.05, news in.gr, news.antenna.gr

July 2004. TV MAKEDONIA interview on the plant remains from the University Excavation at

Karabournaki

February 2004. Press coverage of the plant food remains from Archondiko, presented at the 17th

AEMTH conference in Thessaloniki. Newspapers ΤΑ ΝΕΑ (12.2.04, p. 21), ETHNOS (16.2.04, p.

46)

March 1994. Two radio interviews on archaeobotanical research in central Macedonia (9.58FM)

January 1994. ERT3 interview on the first evidence on archaeobotanical research at the neolithic

settlement of Makriyalos

February 2005. Student posters presented at AEMTH conference and food tasting event