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People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say |
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ggm wrote 1 day ago: |
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Volcanic ash is highly productive and at the very least you would think |
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latifundia would be there. If opportunistically you can find an old |
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water cistern and turn it into an oven, why not? |
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Modern day Indonesian and Philippines and Pac rim Island farmers don't |
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stay away from volcanoes any longer than they have to. Mud flows |
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different. Ash? That's plantable. And tuff forms, you can build with |
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it. |
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Intralexical wrote 19 hours 30 min ago: |
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I find this surprising, because my impression was that complex |
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biology requires pioneer species to spend some time making "fresh" |
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geology from the earth inhabitable first if there isn't already an |
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established ecosystem. |
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Why is volcanic ash so productive? Is it the result of coincidence? |
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Adaptation? Some resource cycle? |
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ggm wrote 3 hours 37 min ago: |
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Bio available trace elements and loose structure. Stuff you find in |
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fertiliser is typically rich in volcanic ash. And lack of |
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competition because its virgin soil. The coloniser species are what |
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happens without human intervention. |
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rg2004 wrote 1 day ago: |
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How would anyone be able to afford anything if all their possessions |
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were under hardened magma |
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downrightmike wrote 1 day ago: |
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Romans were known to take poor people and make them slaves, that's |
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one solution |
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lostlogin wrote 1 day ago: |
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It wasnât magma, it was 4-6m of ash and pumice. |
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[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii |
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cloudbonsai wrote 1 day ago: |
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I think I found the source paper (written in Itallian): [1] So the |
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archaeologists think that, after the destruction of 79 A.D., some |
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survivors returned to Pompeii and found their homes half-buried in ash. |
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They tried recover their belongings by digging underground, and some |
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apparently attempted to rebuild their lives in their old homes, because |
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they had nowhere else to go. |
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While their efforts ultimately proved to be futile, they did leave some |
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historical artifacts behind (e.g. bread oven entirely made of salvaged |
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materials), and the archaeologists recently unearthed them. |
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[1]: https://pompeiisites.org/e-journal-degli-scavi-di-pompei/la-ri... |
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lostlogin wrote 1 day ago: |
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Itâs not hard to imagine people mining the ruins for valuables. |
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Drunkfoowl wrote 1 day ago: |
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We are doing it right now :). |
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aurizon wrote 1 day ago: |
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looters would dig holes at known rich villas? |
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inglor_cz wrote 1 day ago: |
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IIRC the first explosion of 79 AD didn't bury the Pompeii completely. |
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(It did bury Herculaneum, and much deeper so.) It was another explosion |
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around the time of collapse of the Western Roman Empire that finished |
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the job and hid the remaining structures from human view. |
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dboreham wrote 23 hours 39 min ago: |
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The 79 eruption buried the first floor. Upper floors (if they |
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existed) were still visible. Over time the upper floors were |
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demolished to scavenge the stones to build other villages in the |
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area. So when the site was "rediscovered " in modern times it was the |
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first floor that could be excavated. |
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benwills wrote 1 day ago: |
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For those interested, there's a new set of hour-long videos on the PBS |
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site that has more about the recent Pompeii excavations. |
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There are four so far. Not sure if there will be more: |
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[1]: https://www.pbs.org/show/pompeii-the-new-dig/ |
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