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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more...

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Archaeologists find a human brain that was turned to glass by Pompeii volcano Vesuvius (cosmosmagazine.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

History and Archaeology Online has some great introductory info.

Odds are that you won't find leftovers of those factories / workshops in the ruins of either Herculaneum or Pompeii though. Garum wasn't prepared in urban centres, as there were laws against it. (Garum production stinks really, really bad.) Instead it was prepared nearby, in areas with low demographic density, and then sent to the city for distribution.

And the region around Pompeii was great for that - it's coastal so you have access to fish, it's really sunny and garum fermentation is made under sunlight, and it's close enough to Rome to make travel times short.

The text I've linked mentions it, but 30% of the garum production of Pompeii and the surrounding region (Campania) was owned by a single guy, called Aulus Umbricius Scarus. He lived in Pompeii, got killed by the Vesuvius eruption, and his house has been identified.