Dr. Aaron Brown

"Cuprous Cookery: The Consumption, Maintenance, and Use of Bronze Vessels in the Pompeian Kitchen"

Dr. Aaron Brown will be joining our Stanford AIA Chapter on Friday, December 5  at 7:00pm. The lecture is free and open to the public.

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Aaron Brown is an archaeologist specializing in Roman and Italic material culture with particular interests in foodways (i.e., the practices and beliefs surrounding the production and consumption of food/drink), craft production, the life histories of artifacts, the Roman household, visual culture, urbanism, and the lived experiences of the non-elite. Much of his research draws on material and textual sources in order to reconstruct social structures and consumption patterns at a range of scales, from the local to the supra-regional, and how these changed over time. He is currently working on a social and material history of cooking in the Roman Empire. He serves as the assistant director of the Pompeii Artifact Life History Project (PALHIP) and as a ceramic specialist for the Pompeii I.14 Project.

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