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Byzantine and Ottoman mineral exploration and metal production : the evidence from eastern Macedonia, Greece / Nerantzis Nerantzis

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Nerantzis, Nerantzis
Published
Saarbrücken : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012.
Physical Description
xi, 430 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

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Contents
METALS TECHNOLOGY IN BYZANTINE RURAL MACEDONIA: Aims of research and book outline -- Byzantine technology in context -- THE REGION AND ITS ENVIRONMENT: Geography -- Environment -- Geology and mineral wealth -- SOCIAL ORGANISATION, ECONOMY AND PRODUCTION: Byzantine social organisation -- Ottoman society -- Settlement patterns of Byzantine and Ottoman periods -- Agricultural production: foundation of economy (7th - 15th c.) -- Byzantine craft production -- Ottoman crafts, trade and associated state regulations -- Mineral extraction (late Roman to Ottoman) -- Iron technology: the European context -- MINING AND METAL PRODUCTION IN GREECE AND SURROUNDING REGIONS: Prehistory -- Mining and metallurgy during antiquity -- Byzantine mining and metallurgy (4th - 15th c.) -- Ottoman metallurgy in Greece and the Balkans -- Mine administration, division of labour and workforce characteristics -- Modern mining in Greece -- FIELD SURVEY OF MINING AND SMELTING SITES: Detailed survey and sampling -- THE INVESTIGATION OF THE METALLURGICAL REMAINS: The sampled material: slag, speiss, refractory ceramics -- Choice of instrumental techniques -- Katafyto slag analysis -- Vathytopos slag analysis -- Angistro slag analysis -- Makrychori slag analysis -- Discussion on slag analysis results -- Characterization of speiss -- Refractory ceramic materials -- Comparison of results -- TECHNICAL ACTS AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: Communities as agents of social organisation -- Landscape, time and labour -- Technical know-how -- Site distribution -- Practice -- Social identity -- Future work.
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ISBN
9783659275623 (pbk.)
365927562X (pbk.)
Dissertation Note
Ph. D. University of Sheffield.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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