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Ancient Greek quarries: New PIOP edition

2010-04-01: Now available from Piop editions, the book Ancient Greek quarries. Work and space organization, mining and hewing techniques, methods of transport, cost, dissemination and use of stone co-authored by Georgia Kokkorou-Alevra, Irini Poupaki and Alexis Efstathopoulos is now available (in Greek only). The fruit of a research programme of many years carried out by the University of Athens with a view to establishing a detailed catalogue of ancient quarries, the volume deals with such subjects as, among others, the use of marble in ancient times, the functioning of quarries, the differences of calcareous rock compared to marble, the mining of white and grey marble and the importance of the Cycladic quarries.

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