Thursday, March 7, 2013

What Roman Peasants Ate: Millet (aka birdseed)

http://www.livescience.com/27569-ancient-romans-ate-millet.html
Chemical analysis of skeltons from two cemeteries near Rome of the Imperial period suggest that people out in the boondocks ate a very monotonous diet: millet, millet, and more millet. Ancient literary sources refer to millet as feed for livestock.
Cool new way to study history.

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