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Salt in prehistoric Europe /
"Salt was a commodity of great importance in the ancient past, just as it is today. Its roles in promoting human health and in making food more palatable are well-known; in peasant societies it also plays a very important role in the preservation of foodstuffs and in a range of industries. Unco...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Sidestone Press,
©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- uses of salt
- action of salt in the body
- History of research
- Conclusion
- 2. Salt: what it is, where and why it appears
- What is salt?
- Origin and occurrence of salt deposits
- Conclusion
- 3. Production techniques through the ages
- techniques
- Ethnography
- Written sources: classical antiquity, medieval and early modern
- Conclusion
- 4. From earliest times to the Chalcolithic
- Introduction
- Salt up to the end of the Chalcolithic: conclusions
- 5. Bronze Age
- Briquetage
- Mines and quarries
- trough technique
- Bronze Age
- summary
- 6. Iron Age: Austrian mines, French briquetage, English Red Hills and other sites
- Lagoons and salt-pans: Greece and Rome
- Mining and quarrying
- Salt-boiling using briquetage
- Iron Age: summary
- 7. development of salt working through European prehistory
- salt zones of Europe
- 8. Salt as an economic resource
- scale of production
- movement of salt
- Salt and metal
- Salt as an economic resource: conclusion
- 9. Salt and society
- Chaines operatoires
- Cross-craft interaction
- Commoditization/Commodification
- Technological innovation
- Salt and society
- Gender aspects
- Provisioning production sites
- Towards a new narrative of salt production
- 10. Conclusions and prospects
- Salt today
- future of salt from the past.