6.6 lab
1. Herculaneum is located near Pompeii, this city was buried and frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
2. Herculaneum is important to archeology today, since it is the easiest and most accurate society that archeologists can put together. The archeologists have everything they need to understand this society.
3. The challenges that archeologists we facing when examining the city of Herculaneum was that the city was decaying and falling apart.
4. I believe that archeological investigation of Herculaneum relates to forensic anthropology in the fact that they are both trying to piece together what happened by analyzing bodies. Some similar techniques and processes used in both of these situations are they examine indicative acts; as well as try to determine the sex, age, physical characteristics, and any information on the possible cause of death.
5. Unlike Pompeii the organic items are preserved extremely well. Herculaneum had only a few bodies where as Pompeii they found more bodies then Herculaneum.
6. Archeologist know, people have been to the ruins of Herculaneum before them since they found tunnels that grave robbers had made. They faced dangers of rock slides and suffocation.
7. Hundreds of casts of human and animal bodies survived in Pompeii, the way they were preserved was unique which gave an insight into the life and the death of the city. The blast from the eruption incinerated most of the inhabitants of Herculaneum. However in Pompeii even though 2000 inhabitants did not escape were killed, the eruption preserved as well as destroyed, hundreds of bodies have been discovered since excavations of the city began.
8. I think it would be interesting to work on a site like Herculaneum to discover what happened. This work differs from traditional crime scenes for the fact that it dates back into history so the objects are extremely fragile, dealing with human and animal bodies.
2. Herculaneum is important to archeology today, since it is the easiest and most accurate society that archeologists can put together. The archeologists have everything they need to understand this society.
3. The challenges that archeologists we facing when examining the city of Herculaneum was that the city was decaying and falling apart.
4. I believe that archeological investigation of Herculaneum relates to forensic anthropology in the fact that they are both trying to piece together what happened by analyzing bodies. Some similar techniques and processes used in both of these situations are they examine indicative acts; as well as try to determine the sex, age, physical characteristics, and any information on the possible cause of death.
5. Unlike Pompeii the organic items are preserved extremely well. Herculaneum had only a few bodies where as Pompeii they found more bodies then Herculaneum.
6. Archeologist know, people have been to the ruins of Herculaneum before them since they found tunnels that grave robbers had made. They faced dangers of rock slides and suffocation.
7. Hundreds of casts of human and animal bodies survived in Pompeii, the way they were preserved was unique which gave an insight into the life and the death of the city. The blast from the eruption incinerated most of the inhabitants of Herculaneum. However in Pompeii even though 2000 inhabitants did not escape were killed, the eruption preserved as well as destroyed, hundreds of bodies have been discovered since excavations of the city began.
8. I think it would be interesting to work on a site like Herculaneum to discover what happened. This work differs from traditional crime scenes for the fact that it dates back into history so the objects are extremely fragile, dealing with human and animal bodies.