Ask an Archaeologist, Episode 27: Making Sense of Material Culture at Pompeii
Channel: Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
Date: 2020-07-01

Ask an Archaeologist is a series of live-streamed interviews co-hosted by the Archaeological Research Facility (http://arf.berkeley.edu) and the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu).

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About this talk: This talk will present the latest research results of the Pompeii Artifact Life History Project, a long-term research project that involves the study of portable material culture from Pompeii and sites in its vicinity with a view to shedding light on aspects of artifact life history. This talk will focus on a comparative study of the portable objects from three modest residences - two townhouses inside the walls of Pompeii and one farm villa a short distance outside the town - considering how those who inhabited these structures stored and accessed the objects that they used in their day-to-day lives. In order to illustrate some of the relevant issues it will give specific consideration to the sets of glass vessels from the three residences. 

About the speaker: Ted Pena is Professor of Roman Archaeology in the Department of Classics at UC Berkeley. He studies the archaeology of Roman and pre-Roman Italy, with particular emphasis on the Rome area, ceramic analysis, Roman material culture, and the economy of the Roman world. He currently directs two research projects in Italy - the Palatine East Pottery Project, in Rome, and the Pompeii Artifact Life History Project, at Pompeii.  

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