The once popular Roman city in Pompeii resembles a terrible time capsule, and it seems that after a catastrophic volcanic eruption, 79 AD, whose residents are forever frozen under the ash blanket. Based on new studies, a more close gaze can reveal another gloomy section of the tragedy.
Recently, Unghe clues suggest that a number of people, including those who have survived disasters and transition, have returned to live among the ruins after the eruption, based on the discoveries made by the excavation of the Pompeii Pompeii Archaeological Park in southern Italy. However, it is impossible to reconstruct the detailed image of exactly how many people have returned, and under what circumstances, on the basis of what has been revealed so far, the archaeological park director Gabriel Zuchtriegel said.
Currently, researchers investigating Insula Meridionalis, a neighborhood in the southern part of the city, have found ceramics and other evidence dated after the city’s devastation in recent years. Artifacts painted the picture as people searched for asylum on the upper floors of buildings, visible above the ashes after the eruption, said Zuchtriegel.
The inhabitants of Pompeii eventually abandoned the territory after another devastating eruption in the 12th century, and the city remained unhindered until 1748. Excavations began.
Staircase made of repeated tiles and marble fragments are expected, the remains are visible on the top of the volcanic ash. – Pompeii Archaeological Park
August 6 The archaeologist and co-author Zuchtriegel, an archaeologist and co-author of a new study published on August 6, said that the initial destruction of the city AD 79 has a “monopolized memory”. According to him, the previous traces of Pompeii’s repetition were known researchers, but are also fundamentally ignored.
“In enthusiasm for level 79, amazingly preserved murals and furniture are still intact, weak traces of the repeat repeat of the site were literally and often cleaned without any documents,” Zuchtriegel said in a statement.
“Thanks to new excavations, the image is now clearer: Post-79 Pompeii repeats, less than a city than an insecure and gray agglomeration, a kind of campground, a favela among the still recognizable ruins of the old Pompeii.”
Excavations take place in the location of Insula Meridionalis. – Pompeii Archaeological Park
Artefacts from the second option
In the excavation of one building in Insula Meriodional, archaeologists found that some of the vaulted ceilings of some structure did not collapse only between the second to the fourth century, which means that its warehouses were probably partially visible on the surface when people returned to Pompeii.
In this place, the artifacts of opening the space offer spaces that once served as ground floors, became cellars and caves, where the latest passengers built stoves, mills and fireplaces.
Pile of ceramic containers, fragments, tiles and marble, re -used by passengers at 79 AD. – Pompeii Archaeological Park Archaeological Park
Things in the warehouses of the building also show that Pompeii’s repetition was probably constant than transitional, said Zuchtriegel.
Researchers discovered the remains of ceramic and cooking vessels, including a ceramic lamp decorated with an early symbol of Christ, dating back to the fifth century. The team also found a small, family -style bread oven from the same period, which was built with reusable materials such as bricks and tiles, in the Roman reservoir.
Among the Coin of Carrying of Insula Meriodionalis, depicting Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperors dating back to 161. AD, offers people returning to Pompeii just a few decades after the infamous eruption, Zuchtriegel said.
A fragment of the Roman marble floor found on volcanic deposits that were reused. – Pompeii Archaeological Park
Life after a disaster
People lived in the city up to 472 AD. Vesuvius’ Pollena eruption, but Pompeii failed to become a prosperous, vital port city as it used to be. According to the authors of the study, a series of additional eruptions also occurred in the early sixth century.
“These events probably have caused significant damage to the already weak economy and perhaps led to the abandonment of settlements approved by the Vesuvian area,” the authors wrote in the study.
According to the researchers, there were about 20,000 people once lived when the AD 79 Vesuviai eruption occurred and the debate was about how much the disaster died. Until now, archaeologists have uncovered two-thirds of Pompeii and found about 1,300 people’s remains-numeras, which are not killed outside the city center.
The stove built from re -used Roman materials was built in a Roman tank. – Pompeii Archaeological Park
Nowhere else to leave, the survivors probably returned to the ruins, living in the ash desert and looking for the remains of their homes and things – sometimes due to the remains of victims, such as a horse skeleton found between two beams in insula Meriodional.
During the home, Roman magistrates were probably sent to the city to avoid anarchic existence type, based on the sources of ancient literature, which the authors indicated in the study.
Titus, the Roman Emperor from 79 to 81, sent two consul in the campaign region, where there is Pompeii after the eruption to provide assistance, evaluate the city and redistribute those who died during the eruption, property without surviving heirs, said Zuchtriegel. The emperor also allocated funds to help the survivors, and one text even suggests that he visited Pompeii after the eruption, Zuchtriegel added.
A horse skeleton killed during the AD 79 eruption was found a wedge among the posts in one of the rooms. – Pompeii Archaeological Park
The vegetation also slowly returned to the ground, and Pompeii recreation residents dug wells to reach groundwater under the ash coating, covered with the city, the authors of the study said. The Gethows also buried their get under the samples on the basis of the evidence of the newborn, which were intervened during the restructuring.
“We must assume that although the occupation was not temporary, the life of the ruins had to be quite simple, although you were built by Latrin for those who tend to bake bread,” Zuchtriegel said. “Most of the amenities of the first -century Roman life were eradicated.”
The study shows that modern archeology is not about treasure hunting, but reading sediment signs and understanding of all surviving physical evidence relationships, said Daniel Difendale, Pisa Scuola Normal Superiore Postcorative Researcher. He did not participate in new research.
In Bandendale, the scattered evidence of human activity Pompeiii has existed before a new study, but this latest study reveals the previously unknown level of detail.
“This is more evidence of a stable recreation habitat,” In the letter, written in Bolyndale. “These are people who pull out the residences from utilitarian spaces without living in a luxurious atrial home. On the other hand, it could also be part of the population who did not live in that luxurious home before the eruption, and whose lives are barely visible elsewhere in Pompeii.”
Future excavations could reveal how people repeatedly support themselves, whether they were the remains of the city of rescue, trying to live from the Earth’s agriculture or creating a different form of commercial, he said.
In the Roman terracotta container for Garum, the fermented fish sauce, which has been reused, is still considered the name of the famous steam manufacturer Aulus Umbricius Scaurus. – Pompeii Archaeological Park
President of the University of Missouri Classics, Archeology and Religion dr. Marcello Mogetta said the archaeological park of the Pompeii workers’ archaeological park should be praised for the fact that the afterlife of the Roman city was brighter during its excavations and exhibitions.
In this study, Mogetta did not participate, but it heads the project investigating the area in the area discussed in the study. He said one of the authors of the new investigation is the official responsible for the Pompeii sector studied by Mogetta.
“This study ultimately emphasizes the resistance and active role of the inhabitants of the Vesuvia region in the field of economic recovery during periods, which have been substantially removed from the long-term history of the territory,” Mogetta said.
Insula Meridionalis view from air. – Pompeii Archaeological Park
The results revealed the “invisible city of Pompeii”, which again rose after 79 AD, the one that is just started, the authors wrote in the report.
“In such cases, we archaeologists feel like psychologists buried on Earth: we highlight the parts removed from history, and this phenomenon should be more widely reflecting on archaeological unconscious things, everything that is repressed or abolished, or remains hidden, other seemingly important things,” said Zuchtegel.
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