ARCHAEOLOGISTS OF POMPEII
ACTIVITY 4: Within your Journal expand on the roles of each of these Archaeologists and their contribution to discovering the mystery of Pompeii...
Note: You can find further information in your prescribed textbook or on scholarly websites.
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Note: You can find further information in your prescribed textbook or on scholarly websites.
(DONT FORGET TO SAVE YOUR WORK!)
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Giuseppe Fiorelli
WHO: Director of excavations in Pompeii.
WHEN: 1860.
WHAT: First to excavate in a systematic way and by introducing a naming and numbering system. First to understand the significance of the cavities left in the hardened ash by decomposed organic matter. He poured plaster into the cavities, let it set and then chipped away the surrounding hardened ash to reveal the shapes of the bodies of humans, animals, furniture, food and other perishable materials.
WHO: Director of excavations in Pompeii.
WHEN: 1860.
WHAT: First to excavate in a systematic way and by introducing a naming and numbering system. First to understand the significance of the cavities left in the hardened ash by decomposed organic matter. He poured plaster into the cavities, let it set and then chipped away the surrounding hardened ash to reveal the shapes of the bodies of humans, animals, furniture, food and other perishable materials.
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Vittorio Spinazzola
WHO: Director of excavations.
WHEN: 1910-1923.
WHAT: Under his direction most of the main street, Via dell'Abbondanza, was cleared and several of it's important buildings were excavated. He also reconstructed many of the façades of the buildings, revealing a bust street where private houses, workshops, taverns and bakeries stood side by side. Spinazzola was one of the first archaeologists to record the phases of an excavation in photographs.
WHO: Director of excavations.
WHEN: 1910-1923.
WHAT: Under his direction most of the main street, Via dell'Abbondanza, was cleared and several of it's important buildings were excavated. He also reconstructed many of the façades of the buildings, revealing a bust street where private houses, workshops, taverns and bakeries stood side by side. Spinazzola was one of the first archaeologists to record the phases of an excavation in photographs.
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Estelle Lazer
WHO: Australian archaeologist and Physical anthropologist.
WHEN: 1986
WHAT: Studied the human remains from Pompeii and has reached conclusions such as; the people who were left behind to die in Pompeii were well-nourished and healthy and similar in size to the people who live in Naples today. Lazer discovered that the wearing down of teeth was probably due to traces of grit and stone in the bread from the millstones used to grind the wheat into flour.
WHO: Australian archaeologist and Physical anthropologist.
WHEN: 1986
WHAT: Studied the human remains from Pompeii and has reached conclusions such as; the people who were left behind to die in Pompeii were well-nourished and healthy and similar in size to the people who live in Naples today. Lazer discovered that the wearing down of teeth was probably due to traces of grit and stone in the bread from the millstones used to grind the wheat into flour.
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Sarah Bisel
WHO: American archaeologist and physical anthropologist.
WHEN: 1977
WHAT: Bisel was sponsered by the National Geographic society to examine the skeletons found at Pompeii and Herculaneum. Bisel used the biological evidence to imaginatively reconstruct the lives of the people who died at Pompeii and Herculaneum.
WHO: American archaeologist and physical anthropologist.
WHEN: 1977
WHAT: Bisel was sponsered by the National Geographic society to examine the skeletons found at Pompeii and Herculaneum. Bisel used the biological evidence to imaginatively reconstruct the lives of the people who died at Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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