eprintid: 1469123 rev_number: 50 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/46/91/23 datestamp: 2021-11-30 14:40:42 lastmod: 2021-12-13 15:57:42 status_changed: 2021-11-30 14:40:42 type: book metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Murphy, CA title: Romans, rubbish, and refuse: The archaeobotanical assemblage of Regione VI, insula I, Pompeii ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: D13 divisions: G24 note: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: Although world-renowned, Pompeii, the first Roman site to be excavated and one of the most visited and best-studied archaeological sites in the world, still has unanswered questions to yield, especially in terms of its long-term development from pre-Roman times. The extensive excavations (1995-2006) by the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (AAPP) has provided a rare insight into chronological change within the city of Pompeii. This research was significant as an insula block within the city of Pompeii had never previously been excavated in its entirety. The analysis of all the recovered seeds, fruits and cereal remains has provided a unique research opportunity to undertake a diachronic study of urban Roman plant food consumption and discards. Over the past two centuries of excavations at Pompeii only a handful of published works dealing with botanical evidence have been published. The results from this study demonstrate a standard Mediterranean archaeobotanical assemblage recovered from Insula VI.1 which included wheat, barley, legumes, olives, grapes and figs. A wider diversity of fruits, pulses, and additional cereals, especially broomcorn millet were also found. These results support the established view that Pompeii was a fully urbanised city in the 1st century B.C. date: 2015-05-31 publisher: Archaeopress official_url: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvr43kjx vfaculties: VSHS full_text_type: pub language: eng verified: verified_manual elements_source: Manually entered elements_id: 1037184 doi: 10.2307/j.ctvr43kjx isbn_13: 9781784911164 lyricists_name: Murphy, Charlene lyricists_id: CMURP51 full_text_status: restricted series: Archaeopress Roman Archaeology place_of_pub: Oxford, UK pagerange: 1-149 pages: 149 citation: Murphy, CA; (2015) Romans, rubbish, and refuse: The archaeobotanical assemblage of Regione VI, insula I, Pompeii. Archaeopress Roman Archaeology. Archaeopress: Oxford, UK. document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1469123/7/BAR%20COMBINED.pdf