The briquetage experiment, from the 2nd to the 8th of November, will consist of the faithful reconstruction of kiln 3K3 in the open area in front of Casale Bussolini. The kiln will subsequently be charged with vessels that have likewise been reconstructed on the basis of the morphological profiles identified among the ceramic fragments [...]
Bulian, F., J.Sevink, P.Degryse, M.Quilici, L.Alessandri, and P.Attema, 2026, Early Use of Lime Mortar at the Early Iron Age Piscina Torta Salt Production Site (Tiber Delta, Ostia, Italy), Geoarchaeology, 41, DOI 10.1002/gea.70053
Sotgia A., Alessandri L., Attema A., Bulian F., Sevink J., 2026, Sodium Chronicles… Grain by Grain. New Methods for Quantifying Ancient Salt Demand, Archaeological Method and Theory, 33, DOI 10.1007/s10816-026-09771-7
Bulian F., Sevink J., Alessandri L., Maurer A., De Donno G., Baiocchi V., Guarnieri A., 2026, Before Rome: Salt, settlement, and human–environment dynamics at the Early Iron Age site of Piscina Torta (Tyrrhenian coast), Quaternary Science Review, 375, DOI 10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.109808
Alessandri L., Di Chiara A., Bonilla-Alba R., Cusimano L., Della Sala G.A., Fiorillo A., Gianni V., Rossi C., Sotgia A., Florindo F., 2026, Archaeomagnetic Dating as a Tool to Overcome the Hallstatt Plateau: A Combined Chronological Approach at the Salt Production Site of Piscina Torta (Rome, Italy), Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18789572
The Last Grain of Salt. Results and Stories from the Salt and Power Project Saturday 18th of April 2026 Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) Via Omero 10/12 - Rome PROGRAM 15:00 Introduction, the site of Piscina Torta Attema, Alessandri 15:40 Experimental archaeology in Nazzano Sotgia, Fischetti 16:10 coffee break 16:30 The video Salt [...]
A brief account of the salt experiment held in Nazzano, while we wait for the documentary! By Artigiani Digitali
The briquetage experiment, from the 2nd to the 8th of November, will consist of the faithful reconstruction of kiln 3K3 in the open area in front of Casale Bussolini. The kiln will subsequently be charged with vessels that have likewise been reconstructed on the basis of the morphological profiles identified among the ceramic fragments [...]
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
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
