conservation laws (Other Keyword)
1-1 (1 Record)
Environmental Impact of Glass Production in Post-Medieval Estonia (2023)
DOCUMENT
Full-Text
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Post-medieval Archaeology and Pollution", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Glass production is and was an industry that exhausts natural resources. The destruction of forests surrounding early post-medieval glassworks in Europe was a given - the glassworks would often simply move to the next spot after depleting their resource of fuel and potash. The extraction of sand also had an environmental impact. The...