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Eros, mercator and the cultural landscape of Melos in antiquity - The archaeology of the minerals industry of Melos (Paperback)
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Eros, mercator and the cultural landscape of Melos in antiquity - The archaeology of the minerals industry of Melos (Paperback)
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The island of Melos in the Cyclades has a rich archaeology having
played an important part in prehistory and throughout history. But
owing to its unique geology it is also home to a wide array of
rocks and minerals which have been exploited since the first human
occupation of the island. This book is about the archaeology of the
minerals industries of Melos in antiquity. The localities of their
extraction and the type of processing they may have been subject to
have been reconstructed on the basis of archaeological evidence. At
the site of Aghia Kyriaki, SE Melos, there is evidence for
large-scale exploitation of alum in the Late Roman period, its
processing in large shallow vessels and packaging into amphorae;
there is also evidence for the use of geothermal energy there and
in neighbouring Palaeochori Bay; there are phreatic explosions near
the sulphur mines at Fyrlingos; finally, there are the egkoila of
Melos, the rock-cut cavities carved out of the island's ubiquitous
white altered volcanic rock which gave rise to its minerals. The
ancient texts and epigraphic evidence also take centre stage,
depicting the nature of Melian society from the momentous events of
416BC to the Late Roman period. This book will have wide appeal to
archaeologists and historians, to geologists and mineralogists and
to all those interested in the island or just visiting it.
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