Resurrecting Pompeii / Estelle Lazer.
Resurrecting Pompeii / Estelle Lazer.
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Publisher
London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Date
2009.
Call Numbers
N937.72568/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvii, 386 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
The last days of Pompeii -- Skeletons as artefacts -- An Egyptian interlude -- An anthropological resource -- Context of a mass disaster -- The victims -- The nature of the evidence -- Attribution of sex -- Determination of age at death -- General health and lifestyle indicators -- The population --...
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Publisher
London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2009.
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Summary
"Recognizing the important contribution of the human skeletal evidence to the archaeology of Pompeii and studying the reasons for the scientific neglect of the human remains, Resurrecting Pompeii provides detailed information about what the skeletal record can actually provide. Estelle Lazer demonstrates that the biological evidence does not suppor...
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Resurrecting Pompeii / Estelle Lazer.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
HSC info copy located in section: History - Ancient.
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N937.72568/1
Record Identifier
74VvVaQoP0lg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvVaQoP0lg
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ISBN
0203885163 (ebk.)
9780415261463 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415261465 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780203885161 (ebk.)
DDC
937.7256807
945
MMS ID
991010056149702626
