[HTML][HTML] Salt production by ignition during the prehistory in the Iberian Peninsula with special focus on the archaeological site of Espartinas (Ciempozuelos, Spain)

FJ Jiménez-Espejo, JA López-Sáez, F Bulian… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
One of the prehistoric techniques of salt production consisted of using ceramic vessels,
known as briquetage, for the artificial evaporation of salt water. This paper summarizes all …

[HTML][HTML] Brine-boiling not using briquetage? Technical, socio-economical and ritual aspects of salt production at the Villafáfila lagoons (central Iberia) in Late …

E Guerra-Doce, FJA Moras, S Romero-Brugués… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
By combining a multidisciplinary approach and an intensive program of scientific
techniques, this paper provides a comprehensive overview of salt production at the …

Fuelling the Roman salt industry. Developing a new multiproxy approach to identify peat fuel from archaeological combustion residue

M Dekoninck, K Deforce, J Kaal, WA Out… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract In Europe, especially the Low Countries, peat was intensively used as a fuel
source. Yet, the identification of peat as a fuel source from archaeological combustion …

[HTML][HTML] 3500 years of environmental sustainability in the large-scale alpine mining district of Hallstatt, Austria

D Festi, D Brandner, M Grabner, W Knierzinger… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Throughout time, salt has played a crucial role in societies representing one of the most
precious natural raw materials that can be extracted from the environment. The Austrian Alps …

[图书][B] Salt: white gold in early Europe

A Harding - 2021 - cambridge.org
This Element provides a concise account of the archaeology of salt production in ancient
Europe. It describes what salt is, where it is found, what it is used for, and its importance for …

Salt or fish (or salted fish)? The Bronze Age specialised sites along the Tyrrhenian coast of Central Italy: New insights from Caprolace settlement

L Alessandri, KF Achino, PAJ Attema… - Plos one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
In 2017, an excavation led by the Groningen Institute of Archaeology and in collaboration
with the Tor Vergata University of Rome, took place on two small islands in the Caprolace …

Early Holocene Scandinavian foragers on a journey to affluence: Mesolithic fish exploitation, seasonal abundance and storage investigated through strontium isotope …

A Boethius, M Kjällquist, M Kielman-Schmitt… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
At Norje Sunnansund, an Early Holocene settlement in southern Sweden, the world's
earliest evidence of fermentation has been interpreted as a method of managing long-term …

Salinas and “Saltscape” as a Geological Heritage with a Strong Potential for Tourism and Geoeducation

K Hueso-Kortekaas, E Iranzo-García - Geosciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Salinas and saltscapes are relevant geoheritage sites with important implications on
socioeconomic activities beyond the production of salt, particularly tourism and education …

Cultured milk: fermented dairy foods along the Southwest Asian–European Neolithic trajectory

E Rosenstock, J Ebert, A Scheibner - Current Anthropology, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Animal milk use started between ca. 9000 and 6500 BCE at the onset of the Neolithic in
Southwest Asia, and it subsequently accompanied the spread of farming into Europe from …

Early Neolithic salt production at Street House, Loftus, north-east England

SJ Sherlock - Antiquity, 2021 - cambridge.org
Evidence for prehistoric salt production in Britain has been confined to the Bronze and Iron
Ages. This article presents new evidence for Early Neolithic (3800–3700 BC) salt-working at …