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Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy?

Orengo, H�ctor A.; Palet Mart�nez, Josep M.; Ejarque, Ana; Miras, Yannick; Riera-Mora, Santiago

Authors

H�ctor A. Orengo

Josep M. Palet Mart�nez

Ana Ejarque

Yannick Miras

Santiago Riera-Mora



Abstract

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.

Citation

Orengo, H. A., Palet Martínez, J. M., Ejarque, A., Miras, Y., & Riera-Mora, S. (2013). Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy?. Antiquity, 87(337),

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2013
Deposit Date Aug 27, 2013
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Antiquity
Print ISSN 0003-598X
Electronic ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 87
Issue 337
Keywords Pyrenees, mountain, landscape, Roman, antiquity, pitch, tar, pine, resin, charcoal, iron
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1005258
Publisher URL http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/087/ant0870802.htm
Related Public URLs http://antiquity.ac.uk
http://urv.academia.edu/GIAPLandscapeArchaeologyResearchGroup

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