Program in Early Cultures

Julia Hurley

Doctoral Student, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
julia_hurley@brown.edu
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Research Interests Foodways in the Ancient World, Roman Social and Economic History, Archaeology of Roman Empire, Particularly Western Provinces and Cultural Interactions Therein, Environmental History, Digital Approaches to Studying the Ancient World

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Cambridge University Press

Julia Hurley, Peter van Dommelen, et al., Iron Age botanical remains from nuraghe S'Urachi, Sardinia (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Published in Antiquity.

Excavation at nuraghe S'Urachi has yielded a wide range of archaeobotanical materials preserved through charring and waterlogging. This unusual evidence allows us to study the agricultural practices and diet of this community in the first millennium BC and to understand better the economic and cultural interactions between Sardinia and the wider Phoenician and Mediterranean world.
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