Salt or fish (or salted fish)? The Bronze Age specialised sites along the Tyrrhenian coast of Central Italy: New insights from Caprolace settlement
| Autor: | Peter Attema, Majoi de Novaes Nascimento, Gianluca Sottili, Katia Francesca Achino, Wouter van Gorp, Maurizio Gatta, Mario Federico Rolfo, Jan Sevink, Luca Alessandri |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology, Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics (IBED, FNWI) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Food preservation
Topography European People Ceramics History Social Sciences Marine and Aquatic Sciences Fractional Precipitation Sodium Chloride 01 natural sciences Ancient history salt Ancient salt production Fish products Ethnicities 0601 history and archaeology Materials History Ancient Islands Sedimentary Geology Multidisciplinary 060102 archaeology Salting Out Latium Vetus Geology 06 humanities and the arts Precipitation Techniques Italian People Briquetage bronze age Geography crystal kinetics sodium chloride Italy Archaeology Physical Sciences Medicine Fish Research Article Lagoons 010506 paleontology Science Materials Science Dietary Settore L-ANT/01 Environmental reconstruction Context (language use) Research and Analysis Methods Crystals Dietary sodium chloride Ancient Bronze Age Food Preservation Fish Products Humans Sodium Chloride Dietary Seafood 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Petrology Landforms Excavation Geomorphology Bodies of Water Paleoenvironment Coastal sites Middle Bronze Age People and Places Earth Sciences Population Groupings Sediment Pottery Salted fish |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona PLoS ONE, 1-41. PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE STARTPAGE=1;ENDPAGE=41;ISSN=1932-6203;TITLE=PLoS ONE Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya instname PLoS ONE, 14(11):e0224435. Public Library of Science Recercat: Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 11, p e0224435 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Popis: | Altres ajuts: NWO/360-61-060 In 2017, an excavation led by the Groningen Institute of Archaeology and in collaboration with the Tor Vergata University of Rome, took place on two small islands in the Caprolace lagoon (Sabaudia, Italy), where Middle Bronze Age layers had previously been reported. Combining the results of an environmental reconstruction of the surroundings and a detailed study of the pottery assemblages, we were able to trace a specialised area on the southern island, in all probability devoted to salt production by means of the briquetage technique. The latter basically consists of boiling a brine through which a salt cake is obtained. The technique was widespread all over Europe, from Neolithic to Roman Times. Since the evidence points to an elite-driven workshop, this result has deep implications for the development of the Bronze Age socio-economic framework of Central Italy. Pottery evidence also suggests that in the Bronze Age sites along the Tyrrhenian coast of Central Italy where briquetage has already been hypothesised, more complex processes may have taken place. On the northern island, we collected a large number of so-called pedestals, which are characteristic features of briquetage, while chemical analyses point to salt or fish sauce production, like the roman liquamen, in a Middle Bronze Age domestic context. |
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