Olive-Oil Production of the Roman Mediterranean
Density of attested olive-oil pressing sites across the Roman Mediterranean.
A representative density surface of olive-oil pressing activity across the Roman Mediterranean, concentrated in Baetica and Africa Proconsularis with secondary foci in Tripolitania, Istria, southern Gaul, the Aegean and Syria. Each record carries a press count (the density weight) and an approximate attestation year, so the surface can be animated across the imperial centuries. The dataset is illustrative — generated to exercise the engine's density cartography — not an archaeological gazetteer.
| Theme | Agricultural — land use & cultivation |
|---|---|
| Region | Mediterranean |
| Temporal range | 1st c. BCE – 4th c. CE |
| Geographic coverage | Transregional |
| Records | 60 geolocated entities |
| Data source | Representative compilation (manual) |
| Centroid | 37.29° N · 10.98° E |
| Last revised | Jun 2026 |
A representative, hand-generated dataset (not an excavation corpus): pressing-site clusters are seeded around well-attested oil-producing regions of the Roman Mediterranean, with press counts and attestation years assigned for cartographic illustration of density over time.
The published dataset is distributed as CSV with a derived GeoJSON edition; coordinates are decimal degrees on the WGS 84 datum. DOI 10.5281/ortelius.033.