Lecture: "Water Supply on Shaky Ground: Life Leading up to the Eruption of Vesuvius" by Duncan Keenan-Jones

• Event Date: Sunday, March 9, 2014
• Time: 3:00 pm (CST)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

The speaker is a postdoctoral research associate in the Fouke laboratory, Institute of Genomic Biology/Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has degrees in chemical engineering and ancient history and extensive field archaeological experience of Greco-Roman and historical archaeology. He will present a new reconstruction of Pompeii's water supply system and consider whether the problems plaguing the system before the eruption were due to the aqueduct supplying it. The presentation will then cover the implications for the history of the aqueduct, for life leading up to the eruption and for the study of the Vesuvius itself.

This event is organized by the Central Illinois Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and hosted by the Spurlock Museum.

Visit http://www.archaeological.org/societies/centralillinoisurbana (external link) for more information.