Olive Oil Presses in the Ancient Mediterranean

    In case anyone else ever needs a bibliography of works relating to oil and wine presses in antiquity... here they all are!

Greece
    Hadjisavvas, Sophocles and Chaniotis, Angelos. "Wine and olive oil in Crete and Cyprus: socio-economic aspects." British School at Athens Studies, Vol. 20 (2012), pp. 157–173.
    Maniatis, George C. "The Byzantine Olive Oil Press Industry: Organization, Technology, Pricing Strategies." Byzantion, Vol. 82 (2012), pp. 259–277.
    Margaritis, Evi and Jones, Martin. "Olive oil production in Hellenistic Greece: the interpretation of charred olive remains from the site of Tria Platania, Macedonia, Greece (fourth--second century B.C.)." Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Vol. 17, No. 4 (July, 2008), pp. 393–401.

Italy
    Frezzotti, G. and Manni, M. Olive Oil Processing in Rural Mills. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1956.
    Hitchner, Robert Bruce. "Olive Production and the Roman Economy: The Case for Intensive Growth in the Roman Empire." In The Ancient Economy, edited by Walter Scheidel and Sitta von Reden. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002, pp. 71–84.
    Tyree, E. Loeta and Stefanoudaki, Evangelia. "The Olive Pit and Roman Oil Making." The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Sep., 1996), pp. 171–178.

Levant
    Kogan-Zehavi, Elena and Hadad, Shulamit. "A Building and an Olive Press from the Byzantine-Abbasid Periods at Khirbat el-Thahiriya." 'Atiqot, Vol. 71 (2012), pp. 118*–120*.
    Lewit, Tamara and Burton, Paul. "Wine and oil presses in the Roman to Late Antique Near East and Mediterranean: Balancing textual and archaeological evidence." In Stone Tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt: Ground stone tools, rock-cut installations and stone vessels from Prehistory to Antiquity, edited by Andrea Squitieri and David Eitam. Summertown: Archaeopress, 2019, pp. 97–110.
    Siegelmann, Azriel. "An Oil Press of the Byzantine Period in Qiryat Ata." 'Atiqot, Vol. 34 (1998), p. 8*.
    Syon, Danny. "A Late Byzantine Oil Press at Kefar Barukh." 'Atiqot, Vol. 47 (2004), pp. 155–168.

Mediterranean
    ed. Amouretti, Marie-Claire and Brun, Jean-Pierre. La Production du vin et de l'huile en Méditerranée/Oil and Wine Production in the Mediterranean Area. Paris: De Boccard, 1993.
    Rowan, Erica. "Olive Oil Pressing Waste as a Fuel Source in Antiquity." American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 119, No. 4 (October 2015), pp. 465–482.

North Africa
    Bigi, Leonardo. "Oil Production at Dionysias and in Fayum: Tradition and Technological Innovation Across the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods." In De Africa Romaque: Merging cultures across North Africa, edited by Niccolò Mugnai et al. London: Society for Libyan Studies, 2016, pp. 145–156.
    Gómez, Jose M. Alba. "Oil press installations and oil production in ancient Egypt." In Current Research in Egyptology 2016: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Symposium, edited by Julia M. Chyld et al. Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2017, pp. 186–208.

Turkey
    Ahmet, K. "A middle Byzantine olive press room at Aphrodisias." Anatolian Studies, Vol. 51 (2001), pp. 159–167.
    Vermoere, M. et al. "Modern and ancient olive stands near Sagalassos (south-west Turkey) and reconstruction of the ancient agricultural landscape in two valleys." Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 12, No. 3 (May, 2003), pp. 217–236.