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A
terrifying eruption 4000 long years before Pompeii
Till now we
believed that the most violent eruption at the
Vesuvius
has been the one in
Pompeii,
in 79 AD, but a search of the
Osservatorio
Vesuviano – Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
(INGV) points out a more serious event in the
Bronze Age
(3780
B.C.):
an eruption more violent and destroying of the one that made
Pompeii
and
Ercolano
disappear. So, the
Vesuvius
provoked an incredible proportions catastrophe, emitting a power
never known till now.
The eruption had
mortal effects in an area that extends up to
15
kilometres
from the volcano; in all the studied sites are the
traces of a dramatic
escape:
dishes
left in the huts and
imprints
of men and animals that tried to leave the villages as soon as from
the
Vesuvius
started to rise columns of gas and ash. The only bodies of which the
rests
have remained are of a man and of a woman, buried by the ash in a
zone at about
17 kilometres
from the volcano. Many others are dead when the concentration of
ashes in the air has penetrated in the bronchuses, giving
suffocation.
In that zone, according to the results of the researchers, lived
10.000
to
20.000
persons; most of them could estranging from volcano, but the
eruption however provoked
thousand
of victims. When the survivors returned back to the villages, they
tried to reconstruct them, as it is testified by the rests of the
poles of the found
huts.
But the fields submerged by the ash were by now unluckily to
cultivate. All at a sudden the whole social and agricultural
structure of the villages was
deleted
and the whole zone remained
uninhabited.
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