Call for participants – Summer fieldwork at a Roman villa with baths on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius
From: Claudio Scarpati <claudio.scarpati@xxxxxxxx>
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Call for participants – Summer fieldwork at a Roman villa with baths on the slopes
of Mt. Vesuvius
The Apolline Project is an open research network, which sheds light on the hitherto
neglected past of the area to the north of Mt. Vesuvius, in the bay of Naples. The
project has run actively since 2004 and has several components, with current major
work focusing on a Medieval church and a Roman villa with baths buried by the
volcanoclastic debris of Vesuvius.
The Apolline Project is now open to applications from volcanologists for the 2013
Summer fieldwork at the Roman villa with baths in Pollena Trocchia.
The site of Pollena Trocchia centres on a post-AD 79 bathhouse which seems likely to be part of a larger villa complex. The nearby sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum have made the powers of preservation of volcanic eruptions famous and Pollena Trocchia is another demonstration of this. The various eruptions down the centuries have helped volcanologists and archaeologists piece together a clear chronology; periods of habitation are interrupted by volcanic deposits that are often metres in depth. A complex succession of pyroclastic and volcanoclastic deposits have buried this roman building since the 472 AD subplinian eruption. Numerous eruptive units have been excavated. Those participants with a special interest in the impact of explosive (subplinian) eruptions on buildings and performing volcanology in an archaeological setting are particularly welcome. This year two teams of three geologists/volcanologists will participate in this excavation.
For further information, please go to: www.apollineproject.org/dig.html
We would be very grateful if professors would be so kind as to forward this message
to the relevant university mailing lists and to the students who might be interested in participating.
If your institution is interested in taking part to the research network (we already gained permission to work and study other sites), please send us a message at info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me (claudio.scarpati@xxxxxxxx).
Claudio Scarpati
Head of Volcanology, Apolline Project
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