404 Pages
by Routledge

408 Pages
by Routledge

408 Pages
by Routledge

Resurrecting Pompeii  provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short period of time. Pompeii has been continuously excavated and studied since 1748. Early scholars working in Pompeii and other sites associated with the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius were seduced by the wealth of... Read more

Part 1: The Last Days of Pompeii  1. Skeletons as artefacts  2. An Egyptian interlude  3. An anthropological resource  4. Context of a mass disaster  Part 2: The Victims  5. The nature of the evidence  6. Attribution of sex  7. Determination of age at death  8. General health and lifestyle indicators  9. The population  10. The casts  11. Making sense  Appendices  Bibliography  Index

Biography

Estelle Lazer

'Resurrecting Pompeii is a remarkable book' – Times Literary Supplement

'Those who have been lucky enough to hear Estelle lecture will not be surprised by the clarity and pervading logic of her narrative, nor by the touches of quirky humour that emerge. From the first page the tone is a ‘double whammy’, both engaging and scholarly.' Dennis Mootz, NSW History Teacher's Association, Australia