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Archaeology of salt : approaching an invisible past /
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 fi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Leiden, Netherlands :
Sidestone Press,
[2015]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.