Pompeii’s Survivors: Life in the Ruins

For ancient rome, we read stratigraphy, late floors, and reworked thresholds to trace how survivors adapted Pompeii’s ruins after 79 AD—without speculation.

🔎 In this episode, we cover:
• Raised thresholds, door bars, and new floors laid over ash
• The “waiting room” context and domestic reuse of cleared rooms
• Dating tools: coins, late ceramics, construction cuts, micromorphology
• Barricaded spaces, street nodes, shrines, and water-point clusters

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⏱ Timestamps
00:00 — Why survivors returned to the ruins
00:42 — Floors over ash & raised thresholds
01:24 — The “waiting room” and household space
02:06 — Barricades and reorganized access
02:48 — Shops, shrines, water points resume
03:30 — Dating layers: coins, pottery, cuts
04:12 — Links with Herculaneum & hinterland
04:54 — Limits, methods, and big picture

Sources:
Pompeii Archaeological Park — 2025 reoccupation updates (https://pompeiisites.org/
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Archaeology Magazine — 2025 features on post-79 layers (https://www.archaeology.org/
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Press bulletin — trenches, scans, and stratigraphy 2025 (https://pompeiisites.org/press/
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