Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy?
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...
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Antiquity Publications
2013
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2135/ |