An archaeology of salt production in Fiji

TY - JOUR

T1 - An archaeology of salt production in Fiji

AU - Burley, David V

AU - Tache, Karine

AU - Purser, Margaret

AU - Balenaivalu, Ratu Jone

PY - 2011/3

Y1 - 2011/3

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

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M3 - Article

SN - 0003-598X

VL - 85

SP - 187

EP - 200

JO - Antiquity

JF - Antiquity

IS - 327

ER -