The silver mines of Laurion, located 35 km south-east of Athens, were the most important mining district of ancient Greece in the fi fth and fourth century BC. This source of wealth highly contributed to the power of Athens. The Lavreotiki peninsula is situated in the northwestern Attic-Cycladic metamorphic complex; it belongs to the median metamor...
In this paper the existence of intense mining activity around the town of Moralzarzal (Madrid) during the 16th and 17th centuries is exposed. This activity, noted in written sources records, awards and the mine works resulted in an ephemeral, and not very profitable silver mine whose mining operations have been located during the field work. These ...
An epochal transformation of nature-society relations was inscribed in the transition from feudalism to capitalism. This article advances three central propositions. First, the origins of today’s global ecological crisis are found in the emergence of the capitalist world-economy in the “long” sixteenth century - not in industrialization, population...
