There is growing awareness that the profound changes in the environment (eg, in diet and
other lifestyle conditions) that began with the introduction of agriculture and animal …

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 …

The term archaeomineralogy is relatively new. It was used by Mitchell (1985) for a brief
bibliography, by Rapp (2002, 2009) for books, and by Kostov et al.(2008) and Rapp (2008) …

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better health and weight loss the Paleo way with this revised edition of the bestselling guide …

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 …

While most of us live our lives according to the working week, we did not evolve to be bound
by industrial schedules, nor did the food we eat. Despite this, we eat the products of …

The Neolithic period in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula has received the attention of
many archaeologists during the XXth and XXIst centuries, from the earliest humanists like …

We analyse the origin of all obsidian artefacts recovered up to date from Neolithic sites of
north-eastern Iberia, which are the only documented ones in the whole Iberian Peninsula …

“Trade” is an archaeological category, not an ethnographic one. It is a convenient rubric we
use to discuss things moving between people, places, and groups in the past. The social …

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 …