Geothermal Energy in the Mediterranean Area Before the Middle Ages

Abstract

Archeological finds dating Lower Middle Neolithic, and a number of considerations on the degree of reached several millennia before Ihe Christian by certain customs, myths and cults linked manifestations of heat. indicate in h e Mediterranean arra the traced back least Upper Paleolithic. After outlining man's first with the various geothermal manifestations in periods and in times of the most ancient Mediterranean civilizations, paper illustrates development of h e exploitation of hydrothermal products by h e Etruscans and the great given by the Romans the spread of hemal Mention is then made of the major Greek Latin authors from Ihe 61h B.C. to 4th A.D., described numerous aspects of manifestations or speculated on their genesis, and who must therefore be considered the historical fathers of scientific thought on