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Changing perspectives on roller presses in Late Antique Northern Syria
2017
Syria. Archéologie, art et histoire
There has long been a widespread view that the economy of the North Syrian limestone massif in Late Antiquity was largely based on the production of olive oil. Over the years, however, it has become clear that the archaeological evidence to support this view is ambiguous in all senses. While certain installations are deinitively large oil presses, a particular category of presses that used stone rollers in processing was most likely involved in the production of wine, rather than olive oil. The
doi:10.4000/syria.5624
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