Evidence and Excavation of Pompeii
- Created by: SongOfFireAndIce
- Created on: 18-03-16 22:02
View mindmap
- Evidence and Excavation
- Early discovery
- first 150 years of excavation many items found at the site were sold to the nobility of Europe
- No records were kept of what was found where.
- The archaeologists to no care to preserve the things they didn't believe were valuable
- Proper excavations
- Proper excavations began in 1748
- People now actually wanted to reconstruct pompeii
- However the archaeologist still did not take enough care
- Guiseppe Fiorelli
- 1863 Fiorelli was placed in charge of the excavations
- He found it important to keep track of what was being found where and developed a method where archaeologists had to record what they found and where
- He divided the town in regiones. He divided the Regio up into insulae (Block of houses)
- Best known for taking plaster casts of bodies in pompeii
- Early discovery
Similar Classical Civilization resources:
Teacher recommended
Comments
No comments have yet been made