Resurrecting Pompeii

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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 -- The casts -- Making sense.;"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 support the detail of the stories that have been told to date, but it does yield tantalizing glimpses into the lives and deaths of the victims, providing students of archaeology and history with an essential resource in the study of this fascinating historical event."--Back cover. 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 -- The casts -- Making sense.