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Landscape Archaeology, Watermills and Hydrotechnology on a Greek Island (2016)
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A striking feature of the Greek island of Andros's human landscape is the extremely large number of watermills that operated on the island in the recent past. By one estimate, there were on the island, whose territory is only 380 sq km, more than 270 watermills in operation during the last century. Today there are none and not a single ravine on the island has sufficient water flow to power even a single mill. To reconstruct the social, economic, and environmental history of mills on the island,...