Bronze Age Footprints Preserved During Vesuvius Eruption Are Found in Italy

Densely packed footprints discovered in Salerno, Italy.
Photo Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Salerno e Avellino

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The week's Digest is just above.

Try to have a great day, may want to get supplies and get them organized.

in 1995 BCE, and is considered to have been even more destructive.

I wondered how and why they would assert that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avellino_eruption

Alrighty, then.

did they burn their feet??

There’s a similar thing in Hawaii, which is attributed to a pre-colonial battle. The defeated army had to flee across molten lava.

:^) The depth of deposits is how they estimate the energy expended in prehistoric eruptions. Looks like someone added the footprints shot already.

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Whoops, my error, the footprints were left in ash which then hardened. Not so hard on the feet.

https://www.nps.gov/havo/learn/historyculture/footprints.htm

ya I caught that in the article text... just tryin to be funny while givin you a bump!

[singing] I got a bump, gotta like that bump...

If one wants to build in Italy, it’s usually best to figure out a way to do that without having a foundation...at least if you want to keep schedule.

Five or so years ago I was at home a lot (for some reason, heh) and watched a lot of vids about those one-euro fixer uppers in Italy. One of the vids that the guy wandered through an entirely empty ruined mountain village (there are some few of these, a big quake after WWII wrecked them, and the gubmint built no doubt very attractive apartment buildings down the slope a bit from each site).

I noticed one doorway was framed in tiles, and they appeared to be those kind that were used in the walls of the calderiums to keep the chamber pipin’ hot. Naturally I could be mistaken, but if so, it suggests that there are or at least were ruins of a pretty posh Roman villa that wound up being used as a source of building materials.

Gotta say, I’m a little jealous.

Nice!