Robert Shepherd, Hb. 494pp, with 10 tables and 72 illustrations in b/w Published for the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy,by Elsevier Applied Science 1993

Provides a survey of the history of the extractive industries throughout the period from prehistory to the final years of the Roman Empire in the west. It is a sequel to Prehistoric Mining and Allied Industries (1980), also by Shepherd. The areas covered by this new study include Western Europe, the Middle East, Southwest Asia and North Africa..