Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Born: 1951, Oxford An expert on Pompeii, Professor Wallace-Hadrill was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America's

James R. Wiseman Award in 1995 for his book, Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum (1994). He has written several other books. In he appeared on 60 minutes to publicize the extensive manmade damage befalling Pompeii. He was described as an angry archaeologist when he argued that the conservation issues that need to be acted upon urgently at Pompeii are being neglected and that the site is suffering from a "second death". Regarding the deterioration of Pompeii, he contends, "Man is wreaking a damage far greater than Vesuvius. He wants to cease excavation at the site completely and focus directly on its preservation. In 2009 he was elected Master at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge His work in Pompeii led to the development of a joint project with Professor Michael Fulford on a group of houses in Pompeii, however he focuses mainly on Herculaneum which he believes has not been as extensively recognised. Current research interests: He directs the Herculaneum Conservation Project, and is working on Herculaneum, Pompeii, Roman urbanism, public and private space, and Roman cultural identity.

Estelle Lazer Estelle Lazer, Australian archaeologist and physical anthropologist from Sydney University, has studied the human remains from Pompeii. From her study of their bones, Lazer has challenged the conventional interpretation that the people who were left behind to die in Pompeii were the very old, the very young, women and those too sick or weak to escape. She believes that the victims were a good representative sample of the population, a balance of male and female, young and old. There may have been more children among the victims than the skeletons suggest, because not all children's bones would have survived. The bones show that the people of Pompeii were well-nourished and healthy and similar in size to the people who live in Naples today; she worked on the Lady of Oplontis Her opinion on Sara Bisels work Her work is an extension of Sara Bisels work, and has been described as filling the gap of what was previously discovered. They studies the bones of the deceased and determined the nature of their diets, health and lifestyle. Lazer holds the opinion that Bisels work is incomplete and When discussing the eruption sequence in Chapter 4, Context of a Mass Disaster, the author is critical of both Pliny the Younger and Sigurdsson.

The human skeletal remains were not appreciated as a valuable scientific resource until the latter part of the twentieth century. While they had been stored, they had not been adequately curated and as a result had become disarticulated. This meant that I had to design a research project to accommodate the limitations of the material. Lazer on previous work (possibly Bisel) The bones were stored in unoccupied ancient buildings in Pompeii with other uncatalogued artefacts. These bones had to be studied in situ with no laboratory facilities, or even tables or adequate light