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Salt in Eastern North America and the Caribbean : History and Archaeology /

"Salt, once a highly prized trade commodity essential for human survival, is often overlooked in research because it is invisible in the archaeological record. Salt in Eastern North America and the Caribbean: History and Archaeology brings salt back into archaeology, showing that it was valued...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Eubanks, Paul Norman, 1986- (Editor ), Dumas, Ashley A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A millennium of salt production in Southwest Alabama / Ashley A. Dumas
  • Prehistoric uses of salt and mineral springs in the Middle Cumberland region of North-Central Tennessee / Paul N. Eubanks, Kevin E. Smith, Hannah Guidry, and Larry McKee
  • More than just salt : middle Tennessee's mystical mineral springs / Kevin E. Smith and Paul N. Eubanks
  • Production of salt in the Onondaga Lake region of New York : from prehistory to history / Ian W. Brown
  • Salt production and consumption in historic Jamaica / Alyssa Sperry
  • Salines in the late Pleistocene human landscape of southeastern North America / Steven M. Meredith
  • Salt making among the precontact southern Caddo of Arkansas / Ann M. Early
  • Prehistoric salt making writ small : an ancestral Caddo example from East Texas / Nancy A. Kenmotsu and Timothy K. Perttula
  • Salt archaeology in northwest Louisiana / Paul N. Eubanks
  • Creating social meaning : the role of salt in multicrafting at the Mississippian periphery
  • The power of salt in gift exchange and social transformation in the precolonial Caribbean / Joost Morsink
  • The quest for salt / Heather McKillop.