Abstract
The authors report the first exposure of prehis-toric salt-working in the Pacific, one that used solarevaporationofseawateronlargeflanged clay dishes. This short-lived industry of the seventh century AD disappeared beneath the dunes, but its documented nineteenth- and twentieth-century successors offer it many useful analogies: the salt, now extracted by boiling brine, was supplied to inland communities upriver, where it functioned as a prime commodity for prestige and trade and an agent of social change.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 187-200 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Antiquity |
Volume | 85 |
Issue number | 327 |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2011 |