ΠΡΟΣΚΛΗΣΗ ΣΕ ΔΙΑΛΕΞΗ

Στο πλαίσιο του θεσμού των “ΓΕΩΣΥΝΑΝΤΗΣΕΩΝ” και του προγράμματος κινητικότητας Erasmus+ η Ερευνητική Ομάδα ΚΕΡΑΜΟΣ του Τμήματος Γεωλογίας σε συνεργασία με το Μουσείο Επιστημών και Τεχνολογίας έχουν την τιμή να φιλοξενήσουν την Dr. Petra Tuslova, _Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια Αρχαιολογίας, του Πανεπιστημίου Καρόλου της Πράγας, Τσεχία_ η οποία θα πραγματοποιήσει ομιλία με

θέμα:

” _Different Approaches to the Study of the Rural Landscape of Roman Thrace. A Case Study of the Yambol District__ _”

Η ομιλία θα πραγματοποιηθεί την

Τετάρτη 1η Απριλίου 2026 και ώρα 13:00, στο Αμφιθέατρο του Μουσείου Επιστημών και Τεχνολογίας του Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών.

Abstract Systematic investigation of the Yambol District in south-eastern Bulgaria began in 2009 with the Tundzha Regional Archaeological Project. Our research builds upon this pioneering work by extending the systematic field survey, incorporating excavations, and adding small-scale geophysical investigations as well as geological prospection. The multidisciplinary investigation is focused on reconstructing patterns of Roman-period habitation along the Tundzha River, one of the most fertile regions of present-day Bulgaria. Evidence suggests that Roman rural settlements were scattered throughout the countryside, with economies centred on agriculture and craft production.

These communities appear to have been largely self-sufficient, as only a limited number of imported items have been identified at rural sites of the case study area dating to the Roman Imperial period. This phenomenon can be very well demonstrated on pottery, which is from almost 98% of local origin. This talk presents the results of recent investigations in the Yambol District, integrating both non-destructive and destructive archaeological methods to provide, through a case study, a glimpse into the possible appearance and character of Thrace during the Imperial Roman period.

Short intro Petra Tušlová is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Classical Archaeology at Charles University in Prague. Currently, she is undertaking a two-year MSCA CZ Fellowship at the Fitch Laboratory of the British School at Athens. She has worked on several archaeological projects. In her early years, she focused on landscape archaeology and on developing systematic surface survey methodology for southern Uzbekistan. More recently, her research has focused on the Roman and Late Antique Balkans, particularly ancient Thrace. She works mainly in Bulgaria and the Republic of North Macedonia, both as a field archaeologist and as a Roman pottery specialist. In Bulgaria, she has been active since 2007, when she first took part in the institutional project at the Greek emporion Pistiros and shorty after became a regular member of the Tundzha Regional Archaeological Project. These activities in Bulgaria later developed into Bulgarian Czech collaboration on the Yurta-Stroyno Archaeological Project and further landscape fieldwork, about which we will learn today. In the Republic of North Macedonia, she has been working since 2017 as a regular member of the diachronic project _Frontier Studies_, taking place around the Ochrid Lake. At the moment, Petra’s research focuses on Roman-period pottery production and circulation in Thrace, which is the main reason for her fellowship at the Fitch Laboratory, where she is learning and applying ceramic petrography and other analytical methods used in scientific pottery studies.