Archaeologists of Pompeii

CITIES OF VESUVIUS : 

CITIES OF VESUVIUS Changing methods and contributions of nineteenth and twentieth century. Changing interpretations: impact of new research and technologies.

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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

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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