Gardens of the Roman Empire
2007 Impact statement- Gleason, Kathryn L.
abstract
This project documents all the archaeologically excavated gardens of the ancient Roman Empire. It summarizes the results of the findings and provides photographs, drawings, and reconstructions of each garden.
submitted by
- Gleason, Kathryn L. | Associate Professor
issue being addressed
No one has ever gathered together the archaeological evidence for ancient Roman garden design. I joined the project with Wilhelmina Jashemski in 1994 to begin gathering the data. Roman gardens contain design and water management systems that can be re-explored to solve modern development problems around the Mediterranean.
response
We have worked with archaeologists around the Mediterranean to gather every known garden site. For most of the provinces of the Roman Empire, we have enough examples to begin to see regional responses to natural and cultural traditions.
impact assessment
No one has ever gathered this material together before. In fact, it is such a complex project that only when it emerges from the press will it be possible for one individual to survey the entire body of evidence. This will change the direction of garden archaeology in the Mediterranean.
academic priority area
- Applied Social Sciences | CALS academic priority
topic description
Landscape archaeology
has geographic focus
- New York County | borough
- Israel | country
- Lebanon
- Algeria | country
- Portugal | country
- Iraq | country
- Germany | country
- Jordan | country
- France | country
- Switzerland | country
- Turkey | country
- Italy | country
- Spain | country
- Iran | country
- Egypt | country
- United Kingdom | country
- Syria | country
- Greece | country
- Tompkins County | county
- New York State | state
- Maryland | state
funding source description
- Unrestricted funds
- Samuel H. Kress Foundation
- Dumbarton Oaks
- Macaulay Family
- Hirsch Bequest
collaborators
- University of Maryland
- City University of New York
- Dumbarton Oaks
key personnel
- Wilhelmina Jashemski
- Kim Hartswick
- Victoria I
- Amina Aicha Malek
department, unit, division
- Landscape Architecture (LA) | Cornell department
mission focus
- research | project type
From CALS annual faculty reporting. Imported on August 5, 2008