A Bronze Age salt production technique from Transylvania and western Ukraine
| Autor: | Valerii Kavruk, Dan Lucian Buzea, Anthony Harding |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Antiquity. :1-20 |
| ISSN: | 1745-1744 0003-598X |
| Popis: | Across prehistoric Europe several techniques were used to produce salt, including solar evaporation and the briquetage method. Here, the authors focus on a third technique used in Romania and western Ukraine. Building on excavations at Băile Figa and a series of wooden troughs found there, the authors conduct experiments to elucidate how these objects may have been used in salt production: to drip water onto rock salt surfaces to break them up; or to filter and/or concentrate brine by decanting and/or heating. The results demonstrate the troughs are ineffective at concentrating brine, but highly efficient at breaking up rock salt and cleaning the brine of insoluble impurities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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