Campanica | Monitoring Italy's Campania region around Naples

FOOTPRINTS OF BRONZE AGE PEOPLE FLEEING AN ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS During improvement works on the Diramazione Nocera-Cava dei Tirreni gas pipeline in the province of Salerno, an impressive archaeological legacy has come to light. Among the most striking discoveries, the prints preserved in the pyroclastic deposits from eruptions of the Somma-Vesuvius, tell the dramatic story of the terrified inhabitants fleeing the volcano’s violence. Human Footprints from the Bronze Age Left by People Fleeing a Vesuvian Eruption and Other Extraordinary Discoveries in Campania | LBV Magazine