Perceiving Mining Landscapes: Metallurgical Origins and the Perception of Resources in the Landscape

Pearce, Mark; Maggi, Roberto

Abstract

In Liguria, in north-west Italy, copper mining starts soon after a transformation in the Neolithic economy – the opening up of upland pastures for summer grazing – and seems to be contemporary with the exploitation of other mineral resources, such as chert quarrying. We shall briefly explore the economic intensification that led to the activation of these new resources. They had of course always been available in the landscape, what is new is that humans perceived them and – in the case of copper – had the technological skills to exploit them.

Citation

Pearce, M., & Maggi, R. (2023). Perceiving Mining Landscapes: Metallurgical Origins and the Perception of Resources in the Landscape. In Settlement Structures and Metallurgy: The Relations between Italy and the Iberian Peninsula in the Early Chalcolithic. Papers of an International Conference Held in Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano – Palazzo Massimo, 6–7 October 2011 (77-86). Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut - Abteilung Rom. https://doi.org/10.34780/t263-e0t2

• Acceptance Date: Apr 8, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Feb 10, 2023
• Publication Date: Feb 10, 2023
• Deposit Date: May 28, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 1, 2023
• Publisher: Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut - Abteilung Rom
• Pages: 77-86
• Series Title: Palilia
• Series Number: 33
• Book Title: Settlement Structures and Metallurgy: The Relations between Italy and the Iberian Peninsula in the Early Chalcolithic. Papers of an International Conference Held in Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano – Palazzo Massimo, 6–7 October 2011
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/t263-e0t2
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• Publisher URL: https://publications.dainst.org/books/dai/catalog/book/2087/c3706
• Related Public URLs: https://www.dainst.org/-/palilia
• Additional Information: Paper originally given at the conference Strategie insediative e metallurgia: i rapporti tra Italia e la penisola iberica nel primo Calcolitico, held at Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo, Rome 6 Oct - 7 Oct 2011.