>Неантичные помпейки:
>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14319441.400-the-fat-hairy-women-of-pompeii-.html
>А кроме следов от сифилиса и артрита в скелетах, интересно
>бы узнать, не делался ли анализ помпейских скелетов на
>содержание свинца и меди...

Спасибо за весьма интересную ссылку. Фактически специалист опровергает версии ТХ-историков:
"the people of Pompeii lived well into their 50s and 60s and not, as widely believed, only into their 40s".
"telltale signs on other bones also suggest that people lived to a ripe old age".
"the people who perished at Pompeii were probably closely related...This finding also challenges the conventional view that Pompeii was a cosmopolitan society".
"wealthier residents would have left in the days or years before the eruption, leaving behind only those people who were poor and had nowhere else to go".
"the original owners had abandoned the villas, which had been taken over by squatters. Agricultural implements were hung over fabulous frescoes and statue bases from public monuments had been dragged into villas and overturned for tables".
"when the final eruption arrived, the population might have been quite small".