The use of fire in prehistoric and ancient mining-firesetting

Weisgerber, G; Willies, Lynn

doi:10.3406/paleo.2000.4715

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“…We argue that the abundance of charcoal in the base level and on the surface indicates the use of fire-setting technology (Willies, 1994;Craddock, 1995;Weisgerber and Willies, 2000). The floor units were sealed by apparently rapid accumulations of large and medium size rock blocks, which indicates human infilling with debris.…”

Section: Stratigraphymentioning

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Distribution and chronological framework for Iberian variscite mining and consumption at Pico Centeno, Encinasola, Spain

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AMS radiocarbon and OSL dating, and profiling were used to directly delimit periods of variscite production at Pico Centeno Mine 2. These results were integrated with analysis of other well-dated periods of variscite production to establish an Iberian-wide chronological framework. Variscite production at Pico Centeno Mine 2 began at ~ 5200 BC, coincident with alpine jade production or Casa Montero Iberian flint production. Variscite was only used occasionally, together with other greenstones, during the 5th and 6th millennia BC. During the 4th millennium BC, variscite use began to increase to its apogee in the first half of 3rd millennium BC when it appeared in nearly every Iberian burial site. This increase in variscite production and use coincided with decline in the popularity of alpine jade. By the end of the 3rd millennium BC, new resources began to be valued such as Asian and African Ivory, Baltic and Sicilian amber, and copper-based metal products. The variscite cycle thus started with the decline of jade in the 5th–4th millennium BC, and ended with the appearance of copper, ivory and extra-peninsular amber by the end of the 3rd millennium BC.

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Section: Stratigraphymentioning

confidence: 91%

Distribution and chronological framework for Iberian variscite mining and consumption at Pico Centeno, Encinasola, Spain

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“…It was often the case that the most common minerals entangled with silver‐bearing ores formed just a small number of unwanted materials, but each occurring in great quantities in the ore sample. The same mineral formation could also contain many other minerals in lesser quantities (Weisgerber & Willies, : 134). This geological reality determined the number of smelting stages.…”

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Capitalist miners in feudal Europe: A commentary on Marxist agrarian history

Graulau

2019

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Marxist agrarian history conceives of medieval mining as a pre‐capitalist and backward economy isolated from all forms of capitalist change. Mining history says otherwise. Evidence confirms that mining labour enjoyed the conditions for an early emancipation from serfdom, rooted in the ascent of a European silver‐based monetary economy from the eleventh century onwards. Feudal lords were caught between Scylla and Charybdis, vulnerable to the rise of free miners and a mining economy that demanded capital outlays. Drawing upon the case study of mining in the feudal principality of Trent, the article briefly sketches the rise of capitalist miners and the conditions that gave them decisive advantages over feudal lords. The article summarizes general arguments and lines of inquiry for opening the field of Marxist agrarian history to the study of mining and extractive economies.

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“…Esta técnica ha sido utilizada desde la Prehistoria Reciente hasta el siglo XX en todo el planeta (Craddock 1992;Willies 1994;Weisgerber y Willies 2000).…”

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La explotación de variscita en el Sinforme de Terena: el complejo minero de Pico Centeno (Encinasola, Huelva)

Odriozola¹,

García²

2015

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La utilización de adornos de variscita en la Península Ibérica durante la Prehistoria Reciente está muy extendida. Sin embargo sólo se conocen tres afloramientos de este mineral verde con evidencias de minería antigua. Estas páginas presentan los resultados de las prospecciones en uno de ellos, el complejo minero de Pico Centeno (Encinasola, Huelva), donde se han documentado 7 puntos de extracción y 4 minas de tipo trinchera acompañados de utillaje minero prehistórico. La excavación de la mina PCM2 nos permite indagar cómo funcionó la explotación y advertir una tecnología minera diferente a la conocida para otras materias primas como sílex o cobre. ABSTRACT

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The use of fire in prehistoric and ancient mining-firesetting

Cited by 39 publications

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Distribution and chronological framework for Iberian variscite mining and consumption at Pico Centeno, Encinasola, Spain

Distribution and chronological framework for Iberian variscite mining and consumption at Pico Centeno, Encinasola, Spain

Capitalist miners in feudal Europe: A commentary on Marxist agrarian history

La explotación de variscita en el Sinforme de Terena: el complejo minero de Pico Centeno (Encinasola, Huelva)

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