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3 October 2022

Time Duration Event Chair Title Speaker Abstract
09:00 30 Introduction Outline of the Salt and Power project. Scope and purpose of the International Meeting Attema, Alessandri, Bulian
09.30 15 Session 1 - Ethnographic case study Belardelli Ethnoarchaeological projects on salt in Romania Alexianu Download
09:45 15 Session 2 - Ancient evidence, briquetage Three millennia of Salt Production: Briquetage and Salt structures on the East Coast of Lincolnshire, England Lane Download
10:00 15 The “Briquetage de la Seille” (France, Lorraine): a “proto-industrial” Salt Production of the European Early Iron Age Olivier Download
10:15 15 A possible exploitation of marine resources in the Final Bronze Age Liguria: the layer F of the Chiavari necropolis Barbaro, Campana, Chella Download
10:30 15 Coffee break
10:45 15 Session 2 - Ancient evidence, briquetage Rolfo Brine-boiling and briquetage at the Villafáfila lakes (Central Iberia) during the Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age: a multi-disciplinary approach to technical, socio-economic and ritual aspects of the production of salt Guerra Doce, Delibes de Castro, Abarquero Moras Download
11:00 15 The deposits of reddish impasto olle: archaeological reality and possible interpretations Di Fraia, di Gennaro Download
11:15 15 Briquetage in Early Hellenistic Etruscan Spina (Ferrara, Italy) Reusser Download
11:30 45 Round table
12:15 105 Lunch
14:00 15 Session 3 - Ancient evidence, salterns di Gennaro Salt and salt pans in northeast Italy from Prehistory to the present Montagnari Kokelj, Bernardini,Forte,Moretti, Paiero, Furlani Download
14:15 15 Marine salt production in the Roman world: the salinae, their ownership and organisation Marzano Download
14:30 15 Architecture, construction system and functioning of the Roman saltworks of O Areal (Vigo-Galicia-Spain) Castro Carrera Download
14:45 45 Round table

4 October 2022

Time Duration Event Chair Title Speaker Abstract
09.30 15 Session 4 - Analytical methods and biology Sottili Salt Detection in Neolithic pottery from Gornja Tuzla, BH Pandzic Download
09:45 15 Tiny might be good: Exploring the potential for the genomic approach to infer induced effects on ancient saltworks De Angelis, Rickards Download
10:00 15 Radiocarbon Dating and Salt Production during the Period of Early State Formation on the Tyrrhenian Sea Coast Dee Download
10:15 15 Coffee break
10:30 15 Session 4 - Analytical methods and biology Sevink Salt Making in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages – A Microbiologist’s Perspective Oren Download
10:45 15 Salinity reconstruction of the chaîne opératoire of briquetage along the Tyrrhenian coast in Central Italy using diatoms De Novaes Nascimento Download
11:00 15 Ecological framework of saltern system: possible biological indicators for salt production Gravina, Gliozzi, Mazzini Download
11:15 45 Round table
12:00 105 Lunch
13:45 15 Session 5 - Socio-economic context Nijboer Late Bronze Age Salt Production in the Carpathians and its socio-economic context Saile Download
14:00 15 Salt landscapes from protohistory to Rome in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula: novelties and perspectives Currás Download
14:15 15 Salt and pastoralism in ancient Veneto Basso, Migliavacca Download
14:30 15 Cum grano salis. The functions of the protohistoric coastal settlements of Etruria di Gennaro, Mandolesi Download
14:45 15 The salt of early Rome: historical, economic and environmental contexts Cifani Download
15:00 15 Salt production and its social and economic context Harding Download
15:15 45 Round table
16:00 15 Conclusions SWOT analysis Vanzetti
16:15 15 Closing ceremony Attema, Alessandri, Bulian

Production and Demand of Salt in Ancient Italy from the Bronze Age to the Roman Period

Attema P., Alessandri L., Bulian F., Sevink J., Sotgia A., 2025, Production and Demand of Salt in Ancient Italy from the Bronze Age to the Roman Period, in Eubanks, P.N., Dumas, A.A., McKillop, H., Alexianu, M. (eds) Meridians of Salt. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology, Springer, Cham DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-96692-7_11

Drone-based laser scanning for improved archaeological surveys in heavily vegetated zones: A Roman coastline case study

Alessandri L., Baiocchi V., Guarnieri A., Ciardulli A.M., 2025, Drone-based laser scanning for improved archaeological surveys in heavily vegetated zones: A Roman coastline case study., IEEE 12th International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace (MetroAeroSpace), p. 838-842, DOI 10.1109/MetroAeroSpace64938.2025.11114655

From pencil to pixel: assessing Ceramatic 2.0 against manual and laser-aided techniques in archaeological pottery documentation

Alessandri L., Cardarelli L., Cesaretti A., Dan R., Fiorillo A., Sotgia A., Cusimano L., Della Sala G.A., Gianni V., Rossi C., 2025, From pencil to pixel: assessing Ceramatic 2.0 against manual and laser-aided techniques in archaeological pottery documentation, Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, DOI 10.1016/j.daach.2025.e00435

Bronze Age to Roman period salt production in the coastal areas of peninsular Italy: Palaeoenvironments, production methods and archaeological evidence

Bulian F., Alessandri L., Attema P., Sevink J. 2024, Bronze Age to Roman period salt production in the coastal areas of peninsular Italy: Palaeoenvironments, production methods and archaeological evidence, Quaternary Science Review, 344, DOI 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108930

Studying Coastal Resources and Resource Control in the Context of Early State Formation on the Tyrrhenian Coast (Italy)

Attema P. A. J., Alessandri L., Bulian F., De Neef W., Sevink J. Studying Coastal Resources and Resource Control in the Context of Early State Formation on the Tyrrhenian Coast (Italy), in Pirson F., Schütt B., Schulz T. (eds), Tagungen und Kongresse 3, p. 59-65, DOI (book) 10.34780/b573-qb3b

Salt in Late Iron Age Italy. A multidisciplinary approach to the exploration of Italy’s coastal exploitation sites: Piscina Torta (Ostia, Rome) case study

Alessandri L., Attema P. A. J., Bulian F., Sevink J., De Neef W., Baiocchi V., Rolfo M. F., Cifani G., Ceccato Z. L. A., Cusimano L., De Vos M., Di Giacomo L., Fiorillo A., Gianni V., Improta C., Rossi C., Ter Horst Y., Vagliviello S., Salt in Late Iron Age Italy. A multidisciplinary approach to the exploration of Italy’s coastal exploitation sites: Piscina Torta (Ostia, Rome) case study, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports DOI j.jasrep.2023.104361

Low-cost GPS/GNSS Real Time Kinematic receiver to build a cartographic grid on the ground for an archaeological survey at Piscina Torta (Italy)

Alessandri L., Baiocchi V., Monti F., Cusimano L., Fiorillo A., Gianni V., Rossi C., Attema P. A. J., Rolfo M. F., Low-cost GPS/GNSS Real Time Kinematic receiver to build a cartographic grid on the ground for an archaeological survey at Piscina Torta (Italy), ACTA IMEKO, 12(4) DOI 10.21014/actaimeko.v12i4.1561

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