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Ancient Maya
Anthropology
antiquities
Archaeology
Artifacts
Author_Heather McKillop
Belize
Category=NKD
Category=NKT
ceramics
Classic Mayan period
commerce
commodities
economic exchange
Economies
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food
GIS maps of tree species
history
marketplace trade
Maya architecture
pottery
salt industry
salt production
sea trade
sea-level rise
submerged sites
underwater archaeology
waterlogged sites
Yucatan
Product details
- ISBN 9780813056333
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2019
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Maya Salt Works, Heather McKillop details her archaeological team’s groundbreaking discovery of a unique and massive salt production complex submerged in a lagoon in southern Belize. Exploring the organization of production and trade at the Paynes Creek Salt Works, McKillop offers a fascinating new look at the role of salt in the ancient Maya economy.
McKillop maps over 4,042 wooden posts and wedges, the first known wooden structures preserved underwater from the Classic period, describing new methods of underwater archaeology developed specifically for this shallow maritime setting. She explains the technology of salt production, examining fragments of briquetage?the pots that boiled brine over fires in the kitchens. McKillop theorizes that different households operated different salt kitchens and distributed their goods via canoe to sell at marketplaces at nearby inland cities.
By evaluating the scale, concentration, intensity, and context of the Paynes Creek Salt Works, McKillop provides a model for interpreting existing salt works sites as well as future discoveries along the Yucatan Peninsula.
A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase.
McKillop maps over 4,042 wooden posts and wedges, the first known wooden structures preserved underwater from the Classic period, describing new methods of underwater archaeology developed specifically for this shallow maritime setting. She explains the technology of salt production, examining fragments of briquetage?the pots that boiled brine over fires in the kitchens. McKillop theorizes that different households operated different salt kitchens and distributed their goods via canoe to sell at marketplaces at nearby inland cities.
By evaluating the scale, concentration, intensity, and context of the Paynes Creek Salt Works, McKillop provides a model for interpreting existing salt works sites as well as future discoveries along the Yucatan Peninsula.
A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase.
Heather McKillop is the Thomas and Lillian Landrum Alumni Professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University. She is the author of The Ancient Maya: New Perspectives; In Search of Maya Sea Traders; and Salt: White Gold of the Ancient Maya.
