Let’s lean into our fear of pyroclastic flow and talk about the traces that volcanoes can leave in the archaeological record. Turns out, it’s a lot more than buried cities. We’ll also take a look at how volcanoes manifest in the myths and legends of various cultures.
Links
Hawaiian Myths Tell A Story About Volcanic Activity At Kilauea (Forbes)
The Harmful Pseudoarchaeology of Mythological Atlantis (Women Write About Comics)
The A.D. 79 Eruption at Mt. Vesuvius (UCSD Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics)
Tephrochronology and its application: A review (Quaternary Geology)
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