Evoluzione del processo di molitura dall'antichità ad oggi

The technique of pressing of the olives is very old, dating from the Neolithic period in which the hunter-gatherer humans had discovered its therapeutic food and managed to extract the oil by rubbing stones. The first evidence on the extraction of olive oil are of the first millennium before Christ and be found on amphorae of the museums of Haifa (Israel) and Heraklion (Crete) where scenes of beating and pressing presses rudimentary. In later centuries the wooden presses is passed to the presses in stone that had spread in the Mediterranean region and used until a few centuries ago. Today, oil extraction systems are extremely industry.