Power and Performance the Water Lifting Machines Used in Ancient Mining in the Southwest of the Iberian Peninsula

Rodríguez-Pérez, Ángel Mariano; Caparrós-Mancera, Julio Jose; Hernández-Torres, José Antonio; Garrido, Juan Carlos Fortes; Dávila, José Miguel; Castilla-Gutiérrez, Javier

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“…It had the drawback that when the excavation work went deeper, its construction was prevented and another system of extracting the water had to be found. This topic has been covered by various works, who analysed the historical evolution of different mechanisms for water drainage (Garrido et al, 2010;Rodríguez-Pérez et al, 2022). Nevertheless, this article's main purpose is to examine and compare the mechanical water extraction techniques and mechanisms used in the South West (SW) mines of the Iberian Peninsula in Roman times.…”

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Comparative Analysis of Water Extraction Mechanism in Roman Mines

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The removal of water from mines was one of the key issues that former miners had to deal with. Roman colonists brought new technology to the Iberian Peninsula that addressed this problem. However, they did not invent this technology because it had already been applied to the growth of other endeavours in the Hellenistic society throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. In the mine, the Archimedes screw, waterwheels, bucket pulleys, and Ctesibius pumps were the primary drainage systems. In this essay, the primary characteristics, and modes of operation of machines are examined. Without leaving out the most significant finds made in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, one of the regions with the longest history of mining exploitation. To serve as a foundation for future research in this field, this work compares the primary mining mechanisms in ancient Huelva on a qualitative and quantitative level by the implementation of a TOPSIS methodology, a multi-criteria decision analysis method.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%