Ancient mining

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Ancient mining

by Robert Shepherd

Elsevier Applied Science, c1993

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 452-470) and indexes

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内容説明

This book represents an attempt to survey the history of extractive industries throughout a period from prehistory to the final years of the Roman Empire in the west. It is intended as a sequel to an earlier work by Shepherd, "Prehistoric Mining and Allied Industries". The areas covered by the current study include Western Europe, the Middle East, Southwest Asia and North Africa. The mining of minerals and, to a lesser extent, the quarrying of rocks have been of vital importance to the economy and even the culture of many countries. Therefore this study is careful to take into account the effects of outside influences such as invasions and internal strife when considering how mining has influenced local economies and social development. Where written sources exist, such as Greek and Roman mining, these are referred to frequently, but in other cases, where there is little extant written material but greater physical evidence of the remains of mine workings, modern methods such as isotopic analysis are considered. the results of recent work on possible Roman sites such as Cym Ystwith, Great Orme, Llanmech, Alderley Edge, Rio Tinto and others are also taken into account. Comprehensive maps, together with many previously unpublished illustrations and a series of appendices of historical background such as units of ancient money and short biographies of ancient authors should ensure that this book is of interest to archaeologists and ancient historians, as well as the general reader concerned with this period of early history.

目次

  • Part 1 Mining practice in early times: geology and prospecting
  • ore deposits
  • methods of working
  • surface methods. Part 2 Administration and labour in ancient mines: administration of silver mines in Attica
  • administration of Roman mines in Britain
  • labour and slavery in mines. Part 3 Greece: mining sites in Ancient Greece
  • mainlanand Greece
  • Laurion
  • history of mining at Laurion. Part 4 Roman Italy and the Danubian provinces: the mineral resources of the ancient Roman provinces
  • Italy
  • Cisalpine Gaul
  • Elba. Part 5 Gaul and the Rhine provinces: early history
  • mining in Gaul
  • gold
  • lead and silver. Part 6 Iberia: history
  • location of ore deposits
  • gold
  • lead and silver. Part 7 The Middle East: Anatolia
  • geology
  • history
  • mineral deposits in Anatolia. Part 8 Southwest Asia: Iraq
  • Iran
  • the Persian Gulf and Arabia
  • Arabia. Part 9 Egypt and North Africa: Egypt
  • history
  • minerals in Egypt
  • ancient mining areas. Part 10 Britain: conquest of Britain
  • transport
  • methods of mining in Roman Britain
  • lead. Part 11 Ancient quarrying and sources of building materials in ancient times: methods of quarrying
  • location of ancient quarrying sites
  • North Africa
  • mainland Greece. Appendices: ancient authors referred to in the text
  • editions of the ancient authors consulted
  • ancient units of money, weights etc
  • dates when iron came into general use
  • list of Roman Emperors up to the end of the Western Empire.

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