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Dal briquetage alle saline nella protostoria dell’Italia centrale
Alessandri L., Attema P. J.,Dal briquetage alle saline nella protostoria dell’Italia centrale, IpoTESI di Preistoria 14, 2022, 161-168, DOI 10.6092/issn.1974-7985/14338
Bronze and Iron Age salt production on the Italian Tyrrhenian coast. An overview
Alessandri L., Belardelli C., Attema P. J., Cortese F., Rolfo M. F., Sevink J., Van Gorp W., Bronze and Iron Age salt production on the Italian Tyrrhenian coast. An overview, in M. Gnade and M. Revello Lami (eds), Tracing Technology. Forty years of archaeological research at Satricum, Babesch Supplements 42, 2021, Peeters, Leuven
Il Sale. Record archeologico, produzione e manipolazione
Belardelli C., Alessandri L., Aranguren B. M., Attema P. J., Cinquegrana M. R., Montagnari Kokelj M., Negroni Catacchio N., Pacciarelli M., Il Sale. Record archeologico, produzione e manipolazione, in I. Damiani, A. Cazzella, V. Copat (eds), Preistoria del cibo. L’alimentazione nella preistoria e nella protostoria, Studi di Preistoria e Protostoria 6, 2021, Firenze.
The importance of salt
Your Content Goes Here Salt is indispensable to society, past and present. Human and animal health depend on this resource, as did preservation of food in the past. Salt was the only means available to preserve and trade foodstuffs essential for the first large towns with thousands of citizens. For Italy’s early [...]
Problem description and research question
Your Content Goes Here Fig. 1: Major salt deposits of Europe. Early salt production sites mentioned in the text: P: Puntone; C: Caprolace; after Harding 2014 Control of the salterns in the Tiber delta was important for Rome’s rise to power (Liv. I, 15,5; Dion. Hal. II, 55,5-6; Plut., Rom. [...]
Available evidence and research hypotheses
Your Content Goes Here Along the Tyrrhenian coast of Latium Vetus and Etruria multiple sites with dumps of reddish jars are archaeologically attested (fig. 4). These can be tentatively linked to the briquetage technique (Pacciarelli, 2010; Alessandri, 2013; Belardelli, 2013). In Etruria, their appearance is contemporary with the birth of the early [...]
Proposed methodology and hypothesis testing
Your Content Goes Here The “reddish jar sites” were early salt production (briquetage) and/or food preservation sites Figure 5 - The research strategy: hypotheses, goals, sub-goals and methods Any attempt to derive salt (NaCl, halite) from seawater by evaporation (briquetage or salterns) goes through the same steps (Weller, 2015): [...]
