Imagine you start routine maintenance of an underground pipeline – only to detect thousands of years of history.
This is exactly what happened to employees in Italy working on the methane pipeline south of Naples, near Pompey. Subsequent excavations detected archaeological features in the Bronze Age range (3500 to 1200 BC) to late antiquity (250 to 750 BC), as described in detail in post on social networks from archeology supervisors, fine arts and landscapes for Salerno Provinces and Avellino. Exceptional discoveries include potential evidence of humans and animals that flee to Mount Vesuva explosion over a thousand years before the one who buried the famous Roman city.
Mount Vesuvius blew his top at the age of 79, burating Pompeii and Herculaneum under the layers of ash and pumica, famously preserving the victims covering their last moments. The volcano is still active today, and large eruptions take place every few hundred years, including relatively bad 1944.
Archaeologists have discovered the prints of humans and animals in the bronze time in pyrochoclastic deposits (volcanic debris) originating from the Vesuvi volcanic complex. The prints “offer a strong testimony to a dramatic flight of inhabitants facing the anger of the volcano,” he writes in Post on Social Media SuperINTENDENCY. However, it is worth noting that depending on how quickly the pyracoclastic deposits were fasted, humans and animals could abandon the traces of months after the explosion.
Prints can match Mount Vesuvius Eruption of Avellino Pumicawhich scientists believe he was more powerful than explosion 79 CE, according to research Published in 2006. The Avellino eruption, which happened 3,780 years ago, began with an intense drop in Pumica, followed by a pyro -cocolast leaning that spread to 15.5 miles (25 kilometers) from the volcanoes, buried the surrounding land and villages, according to the 2006 study in 2006 . He served as a creepy predecessor of the Roman eruption some 1800 years later.
Indeed, the bronze eruption of the Bronze Age was not a strong enough sign that people would be kept away. Archaeologists have found evidence of semicircular huts dating from the transition of bronze iron, somewhere between 1200 and 900 BC. They also discovered the religious shrine of the third or second century, along the main road outside the Nucria alpateter, revealing artifacts that are probably used as votive offers.
The younger finding of the Roman period, including the plow furrows and ruins of what were probably rural villas, testify to intense agricultural production and cultivation in the field in later years. Archaeologists have also been able to reconstruct more than 40 roads around the nuclear alpageter, including some still carry wheels from ancient wagons.
The excavations, which were concluded in November, further discovered Christian and pagan funerals, such as children’s graves from the transition between Roman times and the late antiquity, the monumental tomb with sarcophagus and sepulture found in one of the Roman villas. These discoveries emphasize the coexistence of the ceremony of the death of different religions, as well as the ancient practice of remodeling buildings.
Some of the youngest archaeological elements to appear in excavations date back to the late period of antiquity and indicate the return of the habitat “length” of style – long, narrow huts that were first built during European protohistory (period between prehistoric times and modern history, with desecrated evidence of writing ).
“This return to past housing patterns, probably due to social-economic changes, testifies to the adaptability of human communities despite the transformation,” concluded in the mail of social media.
So the next time you travel to Italy and inevitably want to complain about the country’s infrastructure, remember that they appear thousands of years of valuable archeological material (and limit construction work) every time someone thinks at all to take over the shovery.