Salt-production at Kibiro

Connah, Graham; Kamuhangire, Ephraim; Piper, Andrew

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“…For this reason, large numbers of salt-making pottery vessels were manufactured, consumed, and disposed of, leaving middens composed of large quantities of heated pottery sherds of the same style. Ancient salt-production sites have been identified throughout the world by the presence of large quantities of homogeneous pottery sherds found in layers together with ashes (e.g., Alabi, 2000;Allen et al, 2007;Connah et al, 1990;Flad et al, 2005;McKillop, 2005;Olivier and Kovacik, 2006;Watanabe and Mori, 2003;Weller and Dumitroaia, 2005;Williams, 2002 and references therein). However, few studies have analyzed salt-making pottery scientifically to support these archaeological observations.…”

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Detection of chloride from pottery as a marker for salt: A new analytical method validated using simulated salt-making pottery and applied to Japanese ceramics

Horiuchi

Ochiai

Kurozumi

et al. 2011

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Detection of chloride from pottery as a marker for salt: A new analytical method validated using simulated salt-making pottery and applied to Japanese ceramics

Horiuchi

Ochiai

Kurozumi

et al. 2011

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…However, Peacock's ideas may be criticised for viewing men as industrial workers and women as unskilled domestic producers. More recent ethnographic studies have shown greater variety among salt producers: at Kibiro in Uganda salt production is an hereditary, female occupation (Connah et al 1990), all community members are involved at Teguidda-n'Tessum in Niger, whereas men are the salt makers in New Guinea (Gouletquer & Weller 2015).…”

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Who Made the White Gold? Exploring the Demographics of Iron Age Salt Production in England through Fingerprint Analysis

Laing¹

2022

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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Ancient fingerprints preserved in clay artefacts can provide demographic information about the people who handled and manufactured them, leaving their marks as an accidental record of a moment’s interaction with material culture. The information extracted from these ancient impressions can shed light on the composition of communities of practice engaged in pottery manufacture. A key component of the process is a comparator dataset of fingerprints reflecting as closely as possible the population being studied. This paper describes the creation of a bespoke reference collection of modern data, the establishment of an interpretive framework for prehistoric fingerprints, and its application to assemblages of Iron Age briquetage from coastal salterns in eastern England. The results demonstrate that briquetage manufacture was constrained by age and sex.

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“…For example, among the Baruya in highland New Guinea salt acts as both a mundane commodity and a product that is imbued with ritual significance (Godelier 1977(Godelier , 1986. Salt producers at Kibiro in Western Uganda trade their salt as a utilitarian commodity but the producers are not independent of patronage and produce some of their salt for the cattle of the Bunyoro king (Connah 1991(Connah , 1996Connah et al 1990). Likewise, salt and salted products produced in the western regions of the Roman Empire demonstrate tremendous variability in their social roles (Curtis 1991;Edmondson 1987).…”

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Rethinking the Context of Production through an Archaeological Study of Ancient Salt Production in the Sichuan Basin, China

Flad

2007

Archaeological Papers of the American

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Excavations at a salt-production site named Zhongba in the Three Gorges region of China document a complex system of intersecting activities that changed gradually over a long period of time. As the salt production became much larger in scale during the Bronze Age, the context of this production shifted from one for which there is no archaeological evidence for attachment between producers and those who control the products to a situation in which the exchange of salt to other regions seems to have been controlled, or at least directed, by an emergent elite whose authority was based in part on divinatory ability and the control of ritual knowledge. This study examines the concept of context in relation to the organization of salt production at this site and argues that multiple lines of evidence must be considered if we are to avoid simplified assumptions concerning the nature of products and the production processes through which they are made.

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Salt-production at Kibiro

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

Detection of chloride from pottery as a marker for salt: A new analytical method validated using simulated salt-making pottery and applied to Japanese ceramics

Detection of chloride from pottery as a marker for salt: A new analytical method validated using simulated salt-making pottery and applied to Japanese ceramics

Who Made the White Gold? Exploring the Demographics of Iron Age Salt Production in England through Fingerprint Analysis

Rethinking the Context of Production through an Archaeological Study of Ancient Salt Production in the Sichuan Basin, China

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