In the Archaeological Museum of Pithecusae in Lacco Ameno d'Ischia, the Geological Section dedicated to Giorgio Buchner will be inaugurated, the archaeologist who discovered the Greek settlement of Pithecusae and collected numerous samples of rocks and fossils from Ischia
Saturday 1 June, from 11:30, the Geological Section of the Archaeological Museum of Pithecusae will be inaugurated (Villa Arbusto di Lacco Ameno on the Island of Ischia), an exhibition structure built in 1999, on a proposal from the Archaeological Superintendency for the provinces of Naples and Caserta, to bring to the public's attention the results of the excavations carried out since 1952 in the context of the oldest Greek settlement in the western Mediterranean.
The Geological Section, set up by the Vesuvius Observatory Section of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV-OV) in collaboration with the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of the Metropolitan Area of Naples, the Department of Earth, Environmental and delle Risorse (DiSTAR) of the University of Naples Federico II and the Municipality of Lacco Ameno, houses the collection of rocks and fossils collected by Giorgio Buchner during his research on the island. The collection bears witness to a long multidisciplinary activity which saw archaeological studies at the center of volcanological, pedological and palaeoenvironmental research aimed at reconstructing the archaeological contexts in the complex geological dynamics of Ischia.
In fact, during the various inhabited phases recorded on the island, the volcanoes were active and produced explosive and effusive eruptions, accompanied by strong geological dynamics which included, among other things, earthquakes, landslides - even gigantic ones -, rapid upheavals of the ground, strong hydrothermal activity.
The samples on display "tell" the dynamics of the geological evolution of the island. Visitors will finally be able to see the products of the various Ischia eruptions, from the oldest to the most recent, the sedimentary rocks and the collection of fossils and microfossils found in the marine sediments and located at various altitudes by the rapid volcano-tectonic deformations.
The visitor's journey in the Geological Section of the Museum will end with a series of panels and monitors which will accompany them along a journey through the geological time of Ischia and which, crossing the relationship between the volcano and man, will lead them to the discovery of the main phenomena volcanic, to the reconstruction of an archaeological excavation of exceptional value for its evidence in the strong interaction between primary and secondary volcanic phenomena and, finally, to a human settlement of the first Greek colony in the West, Pithecusae.
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Photo 1 – Villa Arbusto of Lacco Ameno (Ischia, NA)
Photo 2 - The bay of Sammontano, place of landing of the first Greek settlers in the West, in the eighth century BC