Details of quotidian activities like eating and traveling are rarely included in the historical record of ancient Rome, in spite of the fact that food and migration were key to the growth and maintenance of the Empire. Given the thousands of skeletons uncovered in Rome's suburbs over the past two decades, new information is being discovered about the life courses of men, women, children, slaves, and immigrants. In this talk, Dr. Killgrove combines data from carbon, nitrogen, strontium, oxygen, and lead isotope analyses of skeletal material to approach Imperial Rome from a scientifically complex perspective. By focusing on the contributions that osteological, historical, and chemical analyses of cemetery populations can make to our reconstruction of the past, Dr. Killgrove argues for the value of a more interdisciplinary and theoretically informed classical bioarchaeology.