Dickinson College
Seeds of the Past: Archaeobotany at the DEAL Lab
Keir Tremoglie
Summer internships explores how food shines a light on people of the past
video by Stephen Munchel
Through a summer internship at the Dickinson Environmental Archaeology Lab (DEAL), Keir Tremoglie ’27 (archaeology, anthropology) explores how plant remains help us understand ancient diets and daily life.
“I’m working with archaeological plant material from a site in Pennsylvania, where I'm taking the dirt collected from that site and picking out seeds and plants,” he explains, noting that he accesses the lab’s archaeobotanical comparative collection to compare known seed sample to those he finds in the wild. “There's so many things you can see through the use of food about how people were living.”
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Published August 8, 2025