Orengo, H.A., Palet, J.M., Ejarque, A. et al. (2 more authors) (2013) Pitch production during the Roman period: An intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy? Antiquity, 87 (337). 802 - 814. ISSN 0003-598X
Abstract
The authors' research project in the Pyrenees mountains has located and excavated Roman kilns for producing pitch from pine resin. Their investigations reveal a whole sustainable industry, integrated into the local environmental cycle, supplying pitch to the Roman network and charcoal as a spin-off to the local iron extractors. The paper makes a strong case for applying combined archaeological and palaeoenvironmental investigations in upland areas, showing mountain industries to have been not so much marginal and pastoral as key players in the economy of the Roman period and beyond it into the seventh century AD. © Antiquity Publications Ltd.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Iron; Mountain landscape; Pine; Pitch; Pyrenees; Resin; Roman period |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Archaeology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2015 10:48 |
Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2015 10:48 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00049474 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge Journals Online |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0003598X00049474 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:83869 |