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Title: | Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy |
Author: | Orengo, Héctor A. Palet i Martínez, Josep M. Ejarque Montolio, Ana Miras, Yannick Riera i Mora, Santiago |
Keywords: | Geoarqueologia Productes forestals Excavacions arqueològiques Imperi Romà, 30 aC-284 dC Madriu, Vall del (Andorra) Archaeological geology Forest products Archaeological excavations Roman Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley (Andorra) |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Publisher: | Durham University |
Abstract: | The authors' research project up in the Pyrenees mountains has located and excavated Roman kilns for producing pitch from pine resin. Their investigations reveal a who le 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 these 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. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00049474 |
It is part of: | Antiquity, 2015, vol. 87, num. 337, p. 802-814 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/122800 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00049474 |
ISSN: | 0003-598X |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Història i Arqueologia) |
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