Estelle Lazer

Dr. Estelle Lazer is an independent archaeologist[1] who has worked on sites in the Middle East, Italy, Cyprus, the UK, Antarctica and Australia.

Her PhD thesis was based on the human skeletal remains discovered at Pompeii,[1] where she spent over 7 field seasons.

[2] Estelle Lazer, Australian archaeologist and physical anthropologist from Sydney University, has studied the human remains from Pompeii and has reached some interesting conclusions.

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.

[citation needed] The study concluded that the Lady of Oplontis was aged between 30 and 40, and was in good health apart from dental work.