The diachronic development of the Laurion mining landscape and its relation to process optimization in mining
Synopsis
This article summarises the main results of my PhD thesis on silver mining in ancient Laurion. In the first part, the development of mining in Laurion is examined against the backdrop of the mining landscape model developed by Th. Stöllner. A correlation between mining activities and settlement development in the region is suggested. The second part discusses different theories concerning the main steps of the chaîne opératoire of silver production. It is argued that process optimization strategies can be detected in the ancient Athenian silver “industry”.
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Pages
143-152
Published
November 7, 2023
Online ISSN
2749-6449
Print ISSN
1616-9212
Copyright (c) 2023 † Hans Lohmann, Andreas Hauptmann, Sophia Nomicos, Frank Hulek; Christophe Flament, Effie Photos-Jones, Nikiforos Meimaroglou, Charalampos Mouzakis, Anna Kalagri, Andreas Kapetanios, Hélène Morin-Hamon, Roald F. Docter, Kim Van Liefferinge, Floris van den Eijnde, Cornelis Stal, Sophie Mortier, Winfred van de Put, Sophie Duchène, Frank Hulek, Margarita Nazou, George D. Papadimitriou, Olga Kakavogianni, Kerasia Douni, Myrto Georgakopoulou, Eleni Andrikou, Eleni Papafloratou, Elena Tselepi, Markos Vaxevanopoulos, James Ross, Konstantinos Soukis, Panagiotis Voudouris, Vasilios Melfos, Kelly Merigot, Alexandre Tarantola, Christophe Scheffer, Olivier Vanderhaeghe, Adonis Photiades, Denis Morin
