La zona minera de La Bessa (Italia): sectores de explotación y evaluación de las labores

The La Bessa mining area (Biella, Piamonte, Italy) was worked during the Republican period (2nd–1st centuries BCE) to extract gold from a fluvio-glacial deposit. The system of exploitation used is rather hard to interpret given that it was pursued exhaustively in small parcels. In the final analysis...

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Main Authors: F. Javier Sánchez-Palencia, Alberto Vaudagna, Juan Luis Pecharromán, Eneko Iriarte
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Language:Spanish
Published: Casa de Velázquez 2018-04-01
Series:Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/mcv/8191
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author F. Javier Sánchez-Palencia
Alberto Vaudagna
Juan Luis Pecharromán
Eneko Iriarte
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description The La Bessa mining area (Biella, Piamonte, Italy) was worked during the Republican period (2nd–1st centuries BCE) to extract gold from a fluvio-glacial deposit. The system of exploitation used is rather hard to interpret given that it was pursued exhaustively in small parcels. In the final analysis, it was based on the use of water power throughout the mining process, and as such is a significant precedent to the large-scale gold mining in secondary deposits in Hispania. The interpretation of these exploitation systems has been updated through the integration of photo interpretation and geographic information techniques. Particularly important in that interpretation has been the identification of the structures of removal and stockpiling of excavated material, which has made it possible to assess all the material removed.
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spellingShingle F. Javier Sánchez-Palencia
Alberto Vaudagna
Juan Luis Pecharromán
Eneko Iriarte
La zona minera de La Bessa (Italia): sectores de explotación y evaluación de las labores
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez
ancient mining
geo-archaeology
Northern Italy
Roman hydraulic technology
Roman Republic
title La zona minera de La Bessa (Italia): sectores de explotación y evaluación de las labores
title_full La zona minera de La Bessa (Italia): sectores de explotación y evaluación de las labores
title_fullStr La zona minera de La Bessa (Italia): sectores de explotación y evaluación de las labores
title_full_unstemmed La zona minera de La Bessa (Italia): sectores de explotación y evaluación de las labores
title_short La zona minera de La Bessa (Italia): sectores de explotación y evaluación de las labores
title_sort la zona minera de la bessa italia sectores de explotacion y evaluacion de las labores
topic ancient mining
geo-archaeology
Northern Italy
Roman hydraulic technology
Roman Republic
url https://journals.openedition.org/mcv/8191
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