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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brigand, Robin, editor.

Weller, Olivier, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salt industry and trade--History.

Salt industry and trade.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Salt mines and mining--History.

Salt mines and mining.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden [Netherlands] : Sidestone Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 3, 2015).

ISBN:

90-8890-304-2

OCLC:

905649791