Dr. Jess Venner

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Science Friday · How do you piece together what life was like in Pompeii? · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

So at the University of Oxford now, in my research position, I study urban agriculture and use botanical remains in the archaeology to reconstruct gardens in urban centres.

And so that was one of the areas that I looked at.

So we've got a wine harvest that's already happened.

For example, everything's been taken off the vines.

They've been crushed.

They've been put into Dahlia in the ground.

They've been sealed.

This wouldn't have happened in a couple of days in, you know, by 24th of August, which is when the harvest would have happened around that time.

It takes time.

This is a fall type of thing.

It's a full thing.

Exactly.

It takes time.

So that was I was kind of like, OK, that doesn't seem about right.

Then we have what we now call the pomegranate problem.

Pomegranate gate.

Bring it.

I know.

Right.

So a very, very, very big pile of pomegranates that shouldn't have been harvested.

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