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Resurrecting Pompeii /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lazer, Estelle
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Subjects:
Pompeii (Extinct city)
Excavations (Archaeology) > Italy > Pompeii (Extinct city)
Human remains (Archaeology) > Italy > Pompeii (Extinct city)
Naples Region (Italy) > Antiquities.
Table of Contents:
  • The last days of Pompeii
  • Skeletons as artefacts
  • An Egyptian interlude
  • An anthropological resource
  • Context of a mass disaster
  • The victims
  • The nature of the evidence
  • Attribution of sex
  • Determination of age at death
  • General health and lifestyle indicators
  • The population
  • The casts
  • Making sense.