| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
|
text file |
| Series |
Archaeology of food
|
|
Archaeology of food (Series)
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Salt, once a highly prized trade commodity essential for human survival, is often overlooked in research because it is invisible in the archaeological record. Salt in Eastern North America and the Caribbean: History and Archaeology brings salt back into archaeology, showing that it was valued as a dietary additive, had curative powers, and was a substance of political power and religious significance for Native Americans. Major salines were embedded in the collective memories and oral traditions for thousands of years as places where physical and spiritual needs could be met. Ethnohistoric documents for many Indian cultures describe the uses, taboos, and other beliefs about salt. The volume is organized into two parts: Salt Histories and Salt in Society. Case studies from prehistory to post-Contact and from New York to Jamaica address what techniques were used to make salt, who was responsible for producing it, how it was used, the impact it had on settlement patterns and sociopolitical complexity, and how economies of salt changed after European contact. Noted salt archaeologist Heather McKillop provides commentary to conclude the volume"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
A millennium of salt production in Southwest Alabama / Ashley A. Dumas -- Prehistoric uses of salt and mineral springs in the Middle Cumberland region of North-Central Tennessee / Paul N. Eubanks, Kevin E. Smith, Hannah Guidry, and Larry McKee -- More than just salt : middle Tennessee's mystical mineral springs / Kevin E. Smith and Paul N. Eubanks -- Production of salt in the Onondaga Lake region of New York : from prehistory to history / Ian W. Brown -- Salt production and consumption in historic Jamaica / Alyssa Sperry -- Salines in the late Pleistocene human landscape of southeastern North America / Steven M. Meredith -- Salt making among the precontact southern Caddo of Arkansas / Ann M. Early -- Prehistoric salt making writ small : an ancestral Caddo example from East Texas / Nancy A. Kenmotsu and Timothy K. Perttula -- Salt archaeology in northwest Louisiana / Paul N. Eubanks -- Creating social meaning : the role of salt in multicrafting at the Mississippian periphery -- The power of salt in gift exchange and social transformation in the precolonial Caribbean / Joost Morsink -- The quest for salt / Heather McKillop. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Salt industry and trade -- North America -- History.
|
|
Salt industry and trade. |
|
North America. |
|
History. |
|
Salt industry and trade -- Caribbean Area -- History.
|
|
Caribbean Area. |
|
Salt mines and mining -- North America -- History.
|
|
Salt mines and mining. |
|
Salt mines and mining -- Caribbean Area -- History.
|
| Genre/Form |
History.
|
| Added Author |
Dumas, Ashley A., editor.
|
|
Eubanks, Paul Norman, 1986- editor.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780817320768 0817320768 (DLC) 2020027434 (OCoLC)1142518513 |
| ISBN |
9780817393335 (electronic book) |
|
0817393331 (electronic book) |
|
9780817320768 |
|
0817320768 |
|
