Archaeology Brown Bag: A Scholarly Divide in Research in the Forum at Pompeii: Archaeological Basics Yield Dividends

John Dobbins, Professor Emeritus, Department of Art and Archaeology Interdisciplinary Program, University of Virginia
"A Scholarly Divide in Research in the Forum at Pompeii: Archaeological Basics Yield Dividends."

This talk presents the clash between archaeologists who adhere tenaciously to nineteenth-century views on the Forum at Pompeii and the Pompeii Forum Project (UVA), a late twentieth-century and early twenty-first century project that sees things differently because we use evidence.