Resurrecting Pompeii
By: Estelle Lazer.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780415261463; 9780203885161
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology) -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city); Human remains (Archaeology) -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city); Pompeii (Extinct city); Naples Region (Italy) -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The last days of Pompeii; title: Skeletons as artefacts; title: An Egyptian interlude; title: An anthropological resource; title: Context of a mass disaster; title: The victims; title: The nature of the evidence; title: Attribution of sex; title: Determination of age at death; title: General health and lifestyle indicators; title: The population; title: The casts; title: Making sense.