Article ID: CBB001321031

Pitch Production during the Roman Period: An Intensive Mountain Industry for a Globalised Economy? (2013)

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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

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Authors & Contributors
Taub, Liba Chaia
Arupjyoti Saikia
David P. Staley
James Ker
Antje Wessels
Gárgano, Cecilia
Concepts
Science and society
Rural history
Charcoal and charcoal industry
Science and industry
Science and culture
Agriculture
Time Periods
Ancient
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
Rome (Italy)
Greece
United States
Europe
England
Mediterranean region
Institutions
Adirondack Iron and Steel Company
Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas
University of Pennsylvania
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