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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828989003321

Titolo

Archaeology of salt : approaching an invisible past / / edited by Robin Brigand and Olivier Weller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden [Netherlands] : , : Sidestone Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

90-8890-304-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

338.2/763209

Soggetti

Salt industry and trade - History

Excavations (Archaeology)

Salt mines and mining - History

Salt mines and mining - China - Yangtze River Region - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword; Techniques of salt making: from China (Yangtze River) to their world context; Pierre GOULETQUER* and Olivier WELLER**; Pre-Columbian salt production in Colombia - searching for the evidence; The salt from the Alghianu beck (Vrancea County, Romania): a multifaceted ethnoarchaeological approach; First salt making in Europe: a global overview from Neolithic times; A complex relationship between human and natural landscape: a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the roman saltworks in "Le Vignole-Interporto" (Maccarese, Fiumicino-Roma)

Ancient salt exploitation in the Polish lowlands: recent research and future perspectivesPrehistoric salt production in Japan; New data and observations related with exploitation and transport of salt in Transylvanian prehistory (Romania); Spatial analysis for salt archaeology. A case study from Moldavian Neolithic (Romania); The salt of Rome. Remarks on the production, trade and consumption in the north-western provinces ; Competing on unequal terms: saltworks at the turn of the Christian era; Salt in Roman Britain; Authors info; Blank Page; Blank Page

Sommario/riassunto

Salt is an invisible object for research in archaeology. However, ancient



writings, ethnographic studies and the evidence of archaeological exploitation highlight it as an essential reference for humanity. Both an edible product and a crucial element for food preservation, it has been used by the first human settlements as soon as food storage appeared (Neolithic).As far as the history of food habits (both nutrition and preservation) is concerned, the identification and the use of that resource certainly proves a revolution as meaningful as the domestication of plants and wild animals. On a gl