Summary For this lab, we were responsible for building a groma, a measuring device from ancient Rome that allowed for the creation of 90° angles and sight-lines for straight lines. Then, we practiced four exercises with the groma: making a “road,” an “observation zone for soothsayers,” a grid/Roman colony, and measuring the area of an…

Overall Summary This data is for Group 4, which was composed of Caleb Valentino, Madeleine Goldberger, Losh Li, and myself (Zoe Roettger). Our group used the shallow above-ground firepit, and we worked with beef femur, oxtail, and splanchna for the first part of lab. For the second half, we created three ash altars of varying…