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Title Salt in eastern North America and the Caribbean : history and archaeology / edited by Ashley A. Dumas and Paul N. Eubanks
Published Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Archaeology of food
Archaeology of food (Series)
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Salt industry and trade -- North America -- History
Salt industry and trade -- Caribbean Area -- History
Salt mines and mining -- North America -- History
Salt mines and mining -- Caribbean Area -- History
Salt industry and trade
Salt mines and mining
Caribbean Area
North America
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Dumas, Ashley A., editor.
Eubanks, Paul Norman, 1986- editor.
ISBN 9780817393335
0817393331