This week we kick off our Earth Month series with a blog post from Dr. Kaja Tally-Schumacher. Here, she takes us through her work on Roman gardens and the ways in which archaeologists can recover, reconstruct, and reflect on the presence, specialized knowledge, and experiences of laborers and other non-elite people in the Roman world.
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Video #11: Victoria Austen talks about Roman Gardens
In the eleventh instalment of our video series, Dr. Victoria Austen discusses gardens and gardening in the Roman world, including the types of gardens and what was grown, the structure and decoration of garden space, and the sources we have for understanding gardening in the Roman household.
Peopling the Past 