Archaeology of Mining
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Overview about Iron Age Economy and Production in Central Europe
Das Siegerland im Süden Westfalens zählt zu den wichtigsten Montangebieten Mitteleuropas. Es wird als Teil des Rechtsrheinischen Schiefergebirges vom Siegerland-Wied-Distrikt durchzogen, dessen eisenreiche Vererzungen bereits obertägig... more
This paper reports on a recently discovered Middle Paleolithic and Neolithic/Chalcolithic open-air flint extraction and reduction complex at Mt. Achbara in Israel's Eastern Galilee. Lithic assemblages recovered from a few of the hundreds... more
Gosner, L.R. 2019. “Archaeology of Mining.” Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 2nd ed. Ed. Claire Smith. New York: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2716-1.
(email for full text: lgosner@umich.edu)
(email for full text: lgosner@umich.edu)
The recent archaeological investigations carried out in the argentiferous copper mines of the Arize Mountains allowed to review the chronology of their exploitation. If the activity during the Ist c. BC is confirmed, we now know that the... more
Preliminary Program and Call for Papers 14th International Symposium on archeological Mining History 2019 of the Institute Europa Subterranea at Bad Münster am Stein – Ebernburg (Germany) 30th May – 02th June 2019 Topic: Mining Designed... more
[Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2019] The Iberian Peninsula was a famously rich source of metals in antiquity. Following Roman conquest of Iberia beginning in the late 3rd c. BCE, the scale of mining... more
[Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2019] In recent years, scholarship on labor in the Roman world has begun to emphasize collaboration across industries as well as the interactions of craft producers, traders,... more