La Sassa potsherds

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The 2015 campaign   In 2015, some potsherds were collected inside the cave, on the surface. The potsherd n. 1 has been found in room 1; all the others come from rooms 3 and 4. The inclination of the bowl n. 1 is uncertain since the presence of the handle…
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Scientific output

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Publications Romboni M., Arienzo I., Antonio Di Vito M., Lubritto C., Piochi M., Di Cicco M. R., Rickards O., Rolfo M. F., Sevink J., De Angelis F., Alessandri L., Isotopic evidence for population dynamics in the Central Italian Copper Age and Bronze Age, bioRxiv, 2021.09.30.462554; doi: 10.1101/2021.09.30.462554 Alessandri L., Cardello G. L., Attema…
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Scientific quality

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This research program is designed to test a clear hypothesis – that a refugee population from Campania settled in the south Lazio coastal plains immediately after the Avellino eruption – by tracing the environmental and cultural effects that such a population influx would have caused. For the most part it…
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Structure of research

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Structure of the program The core of the research program consists of three closely linked research projects, each requiring an experienced researcher. A detailed understanding of the soils, lithology and geochronology in their spatial context (W. van Gorp) must underlie the sampling, analysis and interpretation of the archaeobotanical record (M.…
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Description of research

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Description of research About four thousand years ago, a major eruption of the Monte Somma Vesuvius devastated the landscape and the flourishing Early Bronze Age society then occupying the southern part of the region of Campania (Italy). Following an initial small eruption, which is thought to have allowed the population…
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The Avellino Project

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Around 1995 BC, during the Early Bronze Age, a giant eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried a flourishing landscape of villages and fields in the plains to the north and east of the volcano under more than a meter of ash. Inhabitants of Campanian sites such as Nola (‘the Bronze Age…
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Programme

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Last update on 25/5/2016 The Abstract book can be downloaded from here. Sunday 5 June Arrivals: a shuttle bus will be operating between Naples airport, the central railway station, and the hotel Marad. A half-day excursion to locations around Vesuvius and the Observatory will depart at 13:30 from hotel Marad. 13:30 departure…
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Scientific meeting: distal impacts of major volcanic eruptions on pre-industrial societies in the Mediterranean

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[caption id="attachment_344" align="alignleft" width="300"] The old observatory[/caption] The Avellino Event Project studies the geoarchaeological evidence for a northward migration brought about by the Early Bronze Age ‘Avellino’ eruption of the Vesuvius. The aim of this scientific meeting is to bring together a group of international experts, complementing and amplifying the…
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