Un complexe artisanal de l'Age du Fer à Enez Vihan en Pleumeur-Bodou, Côtes d'Armor

Daire, Marie-Yvane; Hautenauve, Hélène; Bozec, Erwann Le; Nagard, Klervi Le; Nédélec, Florence; Bourhis, Jean-Roger; Chevalier, Gilles; Langouet, Loïc; Page, Gaëlle Le; Onnee, Yvan; Quesnel, Laurent

doi:10.3406/rao.2001.1159

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“…The kilns at Baratti Gulf and at Puntone Nuovo–Le Chiarine (kiln B) have been interpreted as salt production kilns [65]. The hypothesis is based on parallels from the briquetage ateliers of Enez-Vihan and Landrellec [13,15,16,66] on the northern coast of Brittany, dated to the II–I century BCE, and from the atelier of Moyenvic, Les Crôleurs, in the Seille valley [67] dated between Final Bronze Age (FBA) III and Ha C-D1. In particular, the use of stones and the parallel corridors seem to be quite common in salt kilns, especially in the area of the so-called Briquetage de la Seille (e.g the atelier Pransieu B, Ha C-D2/3), in Eastern France [19–21,68,69].…”

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Salt or fish (or salted fish)? The Bronze Age specialised sites along the Tyrrhenian coast of Central Italy: New insights from Caprolace settlement

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In 2017, an excavation led by the Groningen Institute of Archaeology and in collaboration with the Tor Vergata University of Rome, took place on two small islands in the Caprolace lagoon (Sabaudia, Italy), where Middle Bronze Age layers had previously been reported. Combining the results of an environmental reconstruction of the surroundings and a detailed study of the pottery assemblages, we were able to trace a specialised area on the southern island, in all probability devoted to salt production by means of the briquetage technique. The latter basically consists of boiling a brine through which a salt cake is obtained. The technique was widespread all over Europe, from Neolithic to Roman Times. Since the evidence points to an elite-driven workshop, this result has deep implications for the development of the Bronze Age socio-economic framework of Central Italy. Pottery evidence also suggests that in the Bronze Age sites along the Tyrrhenian coast of Central Italy where briquetage has already been hypothesised, more complex processes may have taken place. On the northern island, we collected a large number of so-called pedestals, which are characteristic features of briquetage, while chemical analyses point to salt or fish sauce production, like the roman liquamen, in a Middle Bronze Age domestic context.

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