Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum / Laurion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Ancient Greek Mining Landscape. Including Selected Papers Presented at the International Conference »Ari and the Laurion from Prehistoric to Modern Times«, Bochum, November 1st–3rd 2019
herausgegeben von Frank Hulek, Hans Lohmann, Sophia Nomicos und Andreas HauptmannAuf die kulturelle und historische Bedeutung des Laurion sowie seine seit der frühen Bronzezeit herausragende Stellung als eine der wichtigsten Quellen für Silber, Blei und andere mineralische Rohstoffe im östlichen Mittelmeerraum wurde in zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen wiederholt hingewiesen. In einem Bereich wie der Montanarchäologie können neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse nur durch interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit erzielt werden. Das Laurion bietet hierfür mit seinen reichhaltigen materiellen Hinterlassenschaften besonders gute Bedingungen für Kooperationen zwischen Naturwissenschaften und Geisteswissenschaften. Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft fand im November 2019 eine internationale Konferenz zum Thema „Ari and the Laurion form Prehistoric to Modern Times“ in Bochum statt. Referent: innen aus Europa und Australien präsentierten dabei ihre neuen Forschungsergebnisse in 23 Vorträgen. Der vorliegende Band umfasst elf davon sowie weitere eigens für diese Veröffentlichung verfasste Beiträge. Sie behandeln die Geschichte der Rohstoffgewinnung von der Prähistorie bis zur Neuzeit sowie die gesamte Bandbreite der Forschungsaktivitäten im Laurion, angefangen von den Geowissenschaften und Materialwissenschaften bis hin zur Geschichte, archäologischer Feldforschung und Archäometallurgie.
The cultural and historical significance of the Laurion as well as its exceptional position as one of the major sources of silver, lead and other mineral resources in the eastern Mediterranean since the Early Bronze Age have repeatedly been invoked in numerous publications. In a field such as mining archaeology, scientific progress can only be achieved through interdisciplinary cooperation. With its abundant material remains, the Laurion offers particularly good research conditions for the collaboration between the natural sciences and the humanities. Based on funding by the German Research Foundation [DFG], an international conference on „Ari and the Laurion form Prehistoric to Modern Times“ was held in Bochum in November 2019. Speakers form Europe and form Australia presented new research results on Laurion in 23 lectures. Eleven of these are published here, while other contributions are especially written for this volume. Topics address the history of exploration from prehistoric to modern times as well as the entire range of research activities in the Laurion, starting from geoscience and material sciences to history, field archaeology and archaeometallurgy.
The cultural and historical significance of the Laurion as well as its exceptional position as one of the major sources of silver, lead and other mineral resources in the eastern Mediterranean since the Early Bronze Age have repeatedly been invoked in numerous publications. In a field such as mining archaeology, scientific progress can only be achieved through interdisciplinary cooperation. With its abundant material remains, the Laurion offers particularly good research conditions for the collaboration between the natural sciences and the humanities. Based on funding by the German Research Foundation [DFG], an international conference on „Ari and the Laurion form Prehistoric to Modern Times“ was held in Bochum in November 2019. Speakers form Europe and form Australia presented new research results on Laurion in 23 lectures. Eleven of these are published here, while other contributions are especially written for this volume. Topics address the history of exploration from prehistoric to modern times as well as the entire range of research activities in the Laurion, starting from geoscience and material sciences to history, field archaeology and archaeometallurgy.