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CITIES OF VESUVIUS :CITIES OF VESUVIUS Changing methods and contributions of nineteenth and twentieth century.
Changing interpretations: impact of new research and technologies.
Slide 2:A. Wallace-Hadrill “It [Pompeii] is at once the most studied and the least understood of sites. Universally familiar, its excavation and scholarship prove a nightmare of omissions and disasters.”
GIUSEPPE FIORELLI :GIUSEPPE FIORELLI
AUGUSTUS MAU :AUGUSTUS MAU
Slide 6:Michele Ruggero
MAIURI :MAIURI
WILHELMINA JASHEMSKI :WILHELMINA JASHEMSKI
1961 WILHELMINA JASHEMSKI :1961 WILHELMINA JASHEMSKI developed close relationships with team of Italian workers, many were farmers
created a new academic discipline referred to as garden archaeology
the soil analysis that revealed pollen from plants,
established a large interdisciplinary network of scholars
Study of soil contours to discover the shapes of garden beds which gives information about possible plantings
Invited to excavate, first non-Italian in Pompeii, every summer for more than 20 years
Identified area previously thought a cattle market as a commercial vinyard.
Wilhelmina Jashemski “They lived in their gardens , they ate in them , they made them a major part of their lives”
1981-1984 Giuseppina Cerulli Irelli1984-1995 Baldassare Conticello :1981-1984 Giuseppina Cerulli Irelli1984-1995 Baldassare Conticello
ESTELLE LAZER :ESTELLE LAZER
Pietro Giovanni Guzzo :Pietro Giovanni Guzzo