Caligula’s Gardens, Long Hidden Beneath Italian Apartment Building, to Go on View

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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 88%. (I’m a bot)
This spot was once a clam garden, an ancient indigenous form of mariculture that coastal First Nations people have used for millennia.
For millennia pre-colonization, clam gardens epitomized sustainable food security for Pacific north-western coastal nations from northern Washington to south-eastern Alaska.
Modern studies have found that clam gardens have historically been up to 300% more productive than unmodified beaches, that their clams grew larger and faster than average, and that the clams did not exhibit any signs of resource stress from over-harvesting.
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