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 [...]
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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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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): [...]
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