{"id":353,"date":"2013-11-05T17:30:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T17:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/?p=353"},"modified":"2013-10-22T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T14:48:54","slug":"salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/major-theme\/the-first-civilisations\/salt\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-291\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk6_Salt_ElainesOwn_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-291\" alt=\"Salt. Image by Elaine Morris.\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk6_Salt_ElainesOwn_1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk6_Salt_ElainesOwn_1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk6_Salt_ElainesOwn_1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk6_Salt_ElainesOwn_1-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salt. Image by Elaine Morris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Human beings need salt to survive.\u00a0 As hunter-gatherers, people naturally consumed enough salt in their diets by eating the flesh of animals they hunted.\u00a0 But the change to agriculture and a plant-dominated diet meant that salt often needed to be added. Over millennia, salt production technology advanced from simple salt gathering around natural brine springs, shorelines and desert lakes to heating brine to create salt crystals, and eventually to salt mining and large-scale, industrial production.\u00a0 In this lecture, evidence for some of the earliest salt production in the world and the leading role this mineral played in human history will be presented.\u00a0 It is claimed that salt has 14,000 uses.<\/p>\n<h2>Reading<\/h2>\n<p>Science Daily 2010. <em>Oldest Salt Mine Known to Date Located in Azerbaijan<\/em> (Nov 27, 2010) \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/11\/101125201448.htm\">http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\u00ad\/releases\/2010\/11\/101125201448.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weller, O. and Dumitroaia, G. 2005. The earliest salt production in the world: an early Neolithic exploitation in <i>Poiana Slatinei-Lunca<\/i>, Romania, <em>Antiquity<\/em> <b>79: 306<\/b> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiquity.ac.uk\/projgall\/weller\/\">http:\/\/www.antiquity.ac.uk\/projgall\/weller\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kurlansky, M. 2003. <em>Salt; A World History.<\/em> London, Vintage Books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human beings need salt to survive.\u00a0 As hunter-gatherers, people naturally consumed enough salt in their diets by eating the flesh of animals they hunted.\u00a0 But the change to agriculture and a plant-dominated diet meant that salt often needed to be added. Over millennia, salt production technology advanced from simple salt gathering around natural brine springs, shorelines and desert lakes to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[529553,531551,546090,540917,530524,543581,530843,540748,528099],"tags":[615618,614382,614650,550192,615343,614784,583390,109030,614101,615087,613421,613641,613771,613292],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4000-2000-years-ago","category-elaine-morris","category-lecture-11","category-memory-of-the-past","category-new-world","category-object","category-old-world","category-preserving-the-present","category-the-first-civilisations","tag-agriculture","tag-brine","tag-desert-lakes","tag-diet","tag-farming-2","tag-hunter-gatherer","tag-hunting","tag-industry","tag-large-scale","tag-meat","tag-mineral","tag-mining","tag-production","tag-salt","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}