By combining a multidisciplinary approach and an intensive program of scientific
techniques, this paper provides a comprehensive overview of salt production at the …

This paper deals with the origin of salt production and discusses different approaches
ranging from technology, ethnoarchaeology and paleoenvironmental studies to chemical …

Common salt (sodium chloride) is an invisible object for archaeological research, but the
ancient texts, the history, the ethnography and our everyday life confirm that both Man and …

The concept of a Chalcolithic period is fundamentally underpinned by the adoption of
copper metallurgy in the apparent absence of tin alloying. This technological definition has …

Abstract A protohistoric (c. 10th–5th c. BC) briquetage site at Puntone (Tuscany, Italy) was
studied to unravel the salt production processes and materials involved. Geophysical …

The authors take us to the salt lakes of Villafáfila in north-west Spain, where they have
demonstrated by excavation that salt extraction had begun by the second half of the third …

Salt has been for long an field of studies that archaeologists, especially within the field of
prehistory, either have not considered (because it is deemed 'invisible'in the archaeological …

Abstract The Beaker site of Molino Sanchón II, located at the saline Lagoons of Villafáfila
(Zamora, Spain), represents a salt-processing centre which used the brine-boiling method …

A Europa, només hi ha tres muntanyes de sal, diapirs que han perforat literalment la
superfície del sòl. Dues se situen a Romania (Slanic-Prahova i Praid) i l'altra a Catalunya …

Salt is an essential commodity; archaeological remains around the world attest to the
importance of its production, exchange and consumption. Often located in coastal locations …