Meridians of salt : global perspectives on archaeology and ethnoarchaeology / edited by Paul N. Eubanks, Ashley A. Dumas, Heather McKillop, Marius Alexianu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eubanks, Paul Norman, 1986- editor.

Dumas, Ashley A., editor.

McKillop, Heather Irene, 1953- editor.

Alexianu, Marius, editor.

Series:

Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salt--Social aspects--History.

Salt.

Salt industry and trade--History.

Salt industry and trade.

Physical Description:

541 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2025]

Summary:

This book explores the relationship between salt (sodium chloride) and the development of human societies from a cross-cultural and global perspective.Although it is not possible to discuss the importance of salt to all ancient and modern societies, the geographically and temporally diverse examples highlighted here are used to examine a series of related topics critical to understanding thew economic, poltitical, social, and rligious impacts of salt through space and time...

Contents:

Foreword (Ian W. Brown)

Chapter 1. Introduction (Paul Eubanks, Ashley Dumas, Heather McKillop, and Marius Alexianu)

Chapter 2. Desert Wealth: Ethnoarchaeology of the Afar Salt Trade, 450 BCE-1600 CE (Helina S. Woldekiros)

Chapter 3. Resources, Exploitation, and Consumption of Salt in Anatolia (Trkiye) (Gonca Dardeniz)

Chapter 4. Rock Salt Mining: Insights into Traditional and Ancient Exploitation Practices from Iran and Austria (Thomas Stllner)

Chapter 5. Salt Production and the Urban Center of Provadia-Solnitsata, Northeastern Bulgaria (5600 - 4350 BC) (Vassil Nikolov)

Chapter 6. Salt Exploitation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Ivana Pandzic)

Chapter 7. Salt Exploitation from the Neolithic to the Roman Empire: Ocna Sibiului & Miercurea Sibiului (Romania). An Ethnoarchaeological Approach (Marius Alexianu, Andrei Asndulesei, Felix-Adrian Tencariu, Mihaela Asndulesei, Roxana-Gabriela Curc)

Chapter 8. Salt Exploitation in Ukraine (Svitlana Ivanova and Alexey G. Nikitin)

Chapter 9. Salt and Power in Copper Age Iberia (Elisa Guerra-Doce, F. Javier Abarquero-Moras, and Germn Delibes-de Castro)

Chapter 10. The Open-Pit Salt Mine in the Vall Salina of Cardona between 4200 and 3300 BC and the Socioeconomic Transformations in the Communities of the Catalan Middle Neolithic (Alfons Fguls i Alonso)

Chapter 11. Production and Demand of Salt in Ancient Italy from the Bronze Age to the Roman Period (Peter A. J. Attema, Luca Alessandri, Francesca Bulian, Jan Sevink, and Agostino Sotgia)

Chapter 12. The Briquetage de la Seille (Lorraine, Eastern France) (Laurent Olivier)

Chapter 13. Salt in the Old Continent: A Journey into Spain's Ancient Saltworks and Their Origins (Alberto Plata Montero)

Chapter 14. Salt-making Traditions and Salt Trade in the Eastern Himalayas (Biswarup Ganguly and Bina Gandhi Deori)

Chapter 15. Exploration, Discovery, and Foresight: Salt Production Archaeology in China (Li Shuicheng)

Chapter 16. Archaeological Studies of Salt Production in Japan (Takamune Kawashima)

Chapter 17. Salt Making Pottery in Prehistoric Japan: A Case Study from the Matsushima Coastal Area, Miyagi Prefecture (Itsuki Okamoto)

Chapter 18. Unbroken Salt: Brine-boiling pottery and salt cakes in the Central Philippines (Andrea Yankowski)

Chapter 19. Ethnohistory of Salt in the Mississippian and Contact-Era American Southeast (Ashley Dumas and Paul Eubanks)

Chapter 20. The Precious Gift of Salt Woman: Ethnography and Archaeology of Salt in the American Southwest (Todd W. Bostwick)

Chapter 21. Salt Archipelago: History and Archaeology of Salt Cultivation and Harvesting in the Caribbean (Konrad Antczak)

Chapter 22. Salt Production Technology in Highland Central Mexico: Evolution and Adaptations Through Time (Blas Romn Castelln Huerta)

Chapter 23. Modeling the Economics of Salt Production from Wooden Architecture at the Paynes Creek Salt Works, Belize (Heather McKillop and E. Cory Sills)

Chapter 24. One Step Closer to Knowing Ancient Salt Makers: New Insight into Pre-Hispanic Salt Workshops in Southeastern Mesoamerica (Akira Ichikawa)

Chapter 25. Salt Production Studies in Colombia (Saul Alberto Torres Orjuela, Sonia Archila, and Marianne Cardale)

Chapter 26. Conclusion: Salt in the Ancient World (Anthony Harding)

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Meridians of salt.

ISBN:

9783031966910

3031966910

OCLC:

1519661356

Publisher Number:

90102827012

CIPO000297330