Join Katie Tardio, Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Bucknell University and 2025–2026 Solmsen Fellow at UW–Madison’s Institute for Research in the Humanities, for a journey through some of the most fascinating archaeological landscapes of the ancient Mediterranean. Drawing on her fieldwork at Roman Tarraco in Spain, the hinterlands of Lixus in Morocco, two houses at Pompeii, a mound site in rural Türkiye, and the Athenian Agora, Tardio will explore how archaeologists piece together evidence of daily life, urban development, and cultural exchange across the region through the study of zooarchaeology, or animal bones from archaeological sites.