This international workshop aims to address the nexus of coin use and ritual practice in a diachronic approach that will cover primarily the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. 

International congress "Chypre et les grandes îles de Méditerranée, un nouvel espace d'échanges, de la fin du IIe millénaire av. J.-C. à l'époque hellénistique" in honor of Antoine Hermary.

Research in the Mediterranean area suffers from a real gap between archaeological recording and broader aspects of interpretation. This is not just historically conditioned but also results from the natural characteristics of the Mediterranean landscape. Architecture and urbanism in the ancient cities lend themselves very well to investigation. By virtue of their monumental importance, artistic value and easy accessibility the ruined remains of ancient structures have always been a focus of research. But from about the end of WW2 a new interest in landscape studies made its appearance in the Mediterranean area. Since the mid 1970s there has been an explosion of archaeological research in the majority of circum-Mediterranean countries. However, although millions of hectares of Mediterranean landscapes have now been surveyed by terrestrial reconnaissance, it is legitimate to ask: how many and which of the many possible questions have really been answered? 

Which of these have remained unanswered as a result of methodological inadequacies in the structure of landscape archaeology in Mediterranean contexts? Answering these questions – identifying biases, improving methodology, and implementing new technologies and practices – have been the driving force of my research work over the past two decades.

‘EMPTYSCAPES’ is an innovative project aimed at stimulating change in the way in which archaeologists in the Mediterranean world study the archaeology of landscapes, moving from an essentially site-based approach to a truly landscape-scale perspective."