Vulcani come distruttori e conservatori di habitat naturali ed antropici: il Vesuvio e gli insediamenti romani

Volcanoes as Destroyers and Preservers of natural and human Habitats: Vesuvius and Roman Settlements: The use of stratigraphic methods and the study of emplacement mechanisms on the products that buried ancient sites provides a useful instrument for evaluating the stages and the timing of the events that led to the sites’ damage, abandonment, and destruction. This approach is illustrated through the study of two important Vesuvian settlements from the Roman era: the so-called Villa of Augustus at Somma Vesuviana and the city of Pompeii.