Plaster casts of victims of the Pompeii eruption may have contaminated the chemical composition of their bones - but bioarcheological analysis still suggests that they died of asphyxiation

Plaster casts of victims of the Pompeii eruption may have contaminated the chemical composition of their bones - but bioarcheological analysis still suggests that they died of asphyxiation

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0289378

Article Title: The casts of Pompeii: Post-depositional methodological insights

Author Countries: Spain, UK, Italy

Funding: This study was funded by Ministerio de Universidades, BEAGAL18/00110, Dr Gianni Gallello, Conselleria de Innovación, Universidades, Ciencia y Sociedad Digital, Generalitat Valenciana, PROMETEO 2019-056, Dr M. Luisa Cervera, Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, H2020-MSCA-IF-2015-704709-MATRIX., Dr Gianni Gallello. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.