Installing Replacement Closet Flange

The olive tree has ancient origins of the Neolithic archaeological evidence of the use of olives as food and presence of trees already in the tertiary sector. Olive growing has its origins as far back as the Middle East and then developed around the Mediterranean basin. The earliest mills, found both in Syria and Palestine, date from around 5000 BC The cultivation of olives is certainly attested in archaeological sites dating 3500 BC in the form of large stones and a number of olive wood charcoal, used for fire or building material. Sometimes these remains are found in semi-desert areas where the olive tree could not grow spontaneously, and then witness the first human efforts to diffonderelacoltivazionedell'olivo. A doctor was called Babylon "asu", or "oil expert", the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi regulates the production and trade of olive oil (dated 2500 BC). Around 2300 BC the Egyptians decorated the tombs of the pharaohs with olive branches, symbolizing life and fertility. From archaeological findings in Egypt, we learn that oil is traded before the XIX dynasty. Many people Palestine were the olive-growing, but the most important one that has left the remains of structures, large, for working in the oil, the tribe of the Philistines. In Israel, stone mortars were found, also dated to the fifth millennium BC, in which the olives were reduced to pulp by force of arms, and were also found containers made of olive branches intertwined and overlapping stones, which shape resembles the current rope mats, used for pressing the olive paste ground.

But thanks to the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians, then, that the olive tree arrives in many Mediterranean countries, and also in Italy, the Etruscans had already vast plantations in central and northern Italy, and Rome was born a true oil market and oil, with its empire that circulated between the conquered peoples of the Mediterranean, such as Sardinia.

But the cultivation of olive in Sardinia had its greatest expansion thanks to the English domination, for which they arrive in Sardinia, Palma de Mallorca, fifty masters the art of grafting and pruning of the olive. Each of them taught various pupils, and these in turn to others. With this trick, he made off in a few years oil production in the region (already implemented first by the Romans), up to the present day, leading sector of the economy as a Sarda.