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. ...