Archaeologists discover 'extremely violent' drawings by children in Pompeii

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3. These drawings are a bit odd.

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And I disagree with the Italian psychologists.

One of my graduate research areas was examining children's drawings as measures of mental status and intellectual functioning.

1. The Pompeii children did not have to necessarily see the violence, they could have heard about it.
They could be drawing a picture from stories they are told. Fables or other mythical stories.
Which I think could be the case as the children do not seem traumatized.

2. These drawings are not "extremely violent." At least not by American standards.
Disturbed children, PTSD children draw much more violent pictures than these.
Maybe Italy has different type children than we do in the US.

3. The human figures look like they were drawn by someone younger than 6 y/o.
There is no detail on the body and we have these triangle heads.

4. But then we have tables being drawn with more detail and fairly accurate.
The legs are a bit off. So this looks further along than the bodies would suggest.

If the pictures were more clear it would be easier to evaluate.

ETA I think the "tables" are animals. So we see the gladiators attacking animals?
And there is something small in the lower right hand corner, I cannot make it out.
I wonder what it is?