On Thursday, October 10, the Kelsey Museum and the Interdepartmental Program in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology present the first lecture in the Digging Deeper: Thursday Night Lecture Series (Field Archaeology Series on Thursday or FAST). Dr. Frits Heinrich, assistant professor of ancient, agricultural, and food history at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and assistant director and creator of the AGROS project, will give an overview of some of the recent results from diverse chemical analyses on the Karanis archaeobotanical collection at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in the context of the AGROS project. His lecture, "Reassessing Agriculture, Diet, and (Mal)Nutrition at Greco-Roman Karanis: New Insights from the AGROS Project," will be presented in Room 125 at the Kelsey. Refreshments at 5:30 p.m., lecture at 6 p.m.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
For more information, visit lsa.umich.edu/kelsey
