Twin-Screw Olive-Oil Presses from Israel
Numerous stone bases of ancient direct-pressure olive-oil presses have been found in Israel, especially in the eastern Galilee and the Golan Heights. The wooden parts, however, have deteriorated. Ethno-archaeological data, i.e., traditional presses still used in local communities in the twentieth ce...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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Israel exploration journal
Year: 2015, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 100-110 |
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| Summary: | Numerous stone bases of ancient direct-pressure olive-oil presses have been found in Israel, especially in the eastern Galilee and the Golan Heights. The wooden parts, however, have deteriorated. Ethno-archaeological data, i.e., traditional presses still used in local communities in the twentieth century, enable us to reconstruct the shape and mode of operation of the ancient installations. The existence of rare wooden twin-screw presses about one hundred years old raises the possibility that similar installations operated in antiquity and that certain stonepress bases of the Roman-Byzantine period in fact belonged to twin-screw presses. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Israel exploration journal
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