We're delighted to announce our next online Sheffield Archaeomaterials seminar with alumni Dr Nerantzis Nerantzis, from the CReA-Patrimoine Marie Curie Fellowship, at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Kavala-Thasos.
Gold in the City: Precious Metals Extraction at Pistyros, Northern Greece During the Classical-Hellenistic Periods
The systematic excavation at Pistyros, a colony of Thasos east of Neapolis in northern Greece, offers valuable new data for the study of metallurgical technology in this region during antiquity. Firstly, owing to the abundance and significance of the finds related to precious metals extraction and secondly due to their presence in securely dated contexts of the late 4th and 3rd centuries BC. This talk focuses on a preliminary study of excavated metallurgical waste, utilizing pXRF, SEM and EPMA. Contemporary evidence for mining in the Lekani mountains is also investigated, aiming to address issues of organizing metal production and the relations between Thasians of the coastal colonies and indigenous Thracians of the mining zone. Our results are significant as for the first time, archaeological evidence from well-dated contexts is used to reconstruct the process by which gold was extracted from polymetallic deposits and explore how this might have affected long-term economic orientations in this region.
The session will be held online; link to join is here:
ΤΕΤΆΡΤΗ, 28 ΙΟΥΛΊΟΥ 2021 ΣΤΙΣ 7 Μ.Μ. UTC+03
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