The Beaker salt production centre of Molino Sanchón II, Zamora, Spain

The authors take us to the salt lakes of Villafáfila in north-west Spain, where they have demonstrated by excavation that salt extraction had begun by the second half of the third millennium BC. The salt pans uncovered were accompanied by copious amounts of decorated Beaker pottery, for which politi...

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Published in:Antiquity 2011-09, Vol.85 (329), p.805-818
Main Authors: Guerra-Doce, Elisa, Delibes de Castro, Germán, Abarquero-Moras, F. Javier, del Val-Recio, Jesús M., Palomino-Lázaro, Ángel L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archaeological excavation
Archaeology
Beaker period
Bronze Age
Ceramics
Debate
Europe
Iberia
Lakes
Metal Ages
Molino Sanchón II
Natural resources
Politics
Pottery
power
Prehistoric archaeology
Prehistoric era
Prehistory
Prehistory and protohistory
Resource exploitation
Salt
Salt deposits
Social aspects
South West Europe
Spain
symbolism
third millennium BC
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Summary:The authors take us to the salt lakes of Villafáfila in north-west Spain, where they have demonstrated by excavation that salt extraction had begun by the second half of the third millennium BC. The salt pans uncovered were accompanied by copious amounts of decorated Beaker pottery, for which political and symbolic interpretations are proposed.
ISSN:0003-598X
1745-1744
DOI:10.1017/S0003598X00068320