Farming: Scenes Remade
A ten‑minute visual tour of ancient agricultural scenes, showing how each image is rooted in real archaeological and textual evidence.
Chapters
- 0:07 From Seed to Harvest: Early Farming
- 1:52 Classical Knowledge and Practice
- 3:37 Mosaic and Papyrus: Visualizing Agriculture
- 5:04 Continuity and Innovation
On-screen text
- 0:07 From Seed to Harvest: Early Farming
- 0:14 From Seed to Harvest: Early Farming
- 0:31 Threshing wheat at Çatalhöyük Historical record · Çatalhöyük excavation reports (1970s), University of Chicago
- 0:49 Plowing in Beni Hasan Historical record · Tomb 15, Beni Hasan, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- 1:07 Minoan hoe and basket Historical record · Akrotiri fresco, Thera, National Archaeological Museum, Athens
- 1:25 Grain rations tablet Historical record · Babylonian clay tablet MS 2262, Nippur, 1800 BCE
- 1:43 Grain transport by boat Historical record · Tomb of Merer, 5th Dynasty, Saqqara, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- 1:52 Classical Knowledge and Practice
- 1:59 Classical Knowledge and Practice
- 2:16 Hesiod on barley sowing Historical record · Hesiod, Works and Days, c. 700 BCE
- 2:34 Columella on the aratrum Historical record · Columella, De Re Rustica, Book I, 1st century AD
- 2:52 Lex Agraria land reform Historical record · Lex Agraria (Roman agrarian law), 133 BCE
- 3:10 Oxen figurines in Greece The Institute's interpretation · Archaeological study of the Dendra site, University of Athens, 1900s
- 3:28 Hestia hearth tradition Tradition / scripture · Greek religious tradition, as described by Pausanias, 2nd century AD
- 3:37 Mosaic and Papyrus: Visualizing Agriculture
- 3:44 Mosaic and Papyrus: Visualizing Agriculture
- 4:01 Oxen plow in mosaic Historical record · Mosaic of the Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, 4th century AD
- 4:19 Roman wine press mosaic Historical record · Mosaic of the wine press at the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, 1st century AD
- 4:37 Shaduf irrigation guide Historical record · Moscow Papyrus (Egyptian Agricultural Papyrus), 2nd century BCE
- 4:55 Barbegal watermills The Institute's interpretation · Study of the Barbegal mills, France, UNESCO World Heritage, 1st century AD
- 5:04 Continuity and Innovation
- 5:11 Italian farm, 1st c. AD Historical record · Columella, De Re Rustica, Book I, 1st century AD
- 5:32 Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, 4th c. AD Historical record · Mosaic of the Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, 4th century AD
- 6:08 Barbegal, Gaul, 1st c. AD The Institute's interpretation · Study of the Barbegal mills, France, UNESCO World Heritage, 1st century AD
Sources
Historical record: Çatalhöyük excavation reports (1970s), University of Chicago · Tomb 15, Beni Hasan, Egyptian Museum, Cairo · Akrotiri fresco, Thera, National Archaeological Museum, Athens · Babylonian clay tablet MS 2262, Nippur, 1800 BCE · Tomb of Merer, 5th Dynasty, Saqqara, Egyptian Museum, Cairo · Hesiod, Works and Days, c. 700 BCE · Columella, De Re Rustica, Book I, 1st century AD · Lex Agraria (Roman agrarian law), 133 BCE · Mosaic of the Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, 4th century AD · Mosaic of the wine press at the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, 1st century AD · Moscow Papyrus (Egyptian Agricultural Papyrus), 2nd century BCE · [record: Columella, De Re Rustica, Book I, 1st century AD] Columella describes the heavy wooden aratrum plow used in Italian farms. · [record: Mosaic of the Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, 4th century AD] The mosaic shows a team of oxen pulling a plow across a cultivated field.
Tradition / scripture: Greek religious tradition, as described by Pausanias, 2nd century AD
The Institute's interpretation: Archaeological study of the Dendra site, University of Athens, 1900s · Study of the Barbegal mills, France, UNESCO World Heritage, 1st century AD · [interpretation: Study of the Barbegal mills, France, UNESCO World Heritage, 1st century AD] The Barbegal complex demonstrates the use of water power to grind grain on an industrial scale.
Sound: synthesized ambient (wind, drone, water) (CC0 — made by SoapBox). Made in 87 s of CPU.