An archaeology of salt production in Fiji

• Autores: David V. Burley, Karine Taché, Margaret Purser, Ratu Jone Balenaivalu
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 85, Nº 327, 2011, págs. 187-200
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The authors report the first exposure of prehistoric salt-working in the Pacific, one that used solar evaporation of sea water on large flanged clay dishes. This short-lived industry of the seventh century AD disappeared beneath the dunes, but its documented nineteenth- and twentieth-century successors offer it many useful analogies: the salt, now extracted by boiling brine, was supplied to inland communities upriver, where it functioned as a prime commodity for prestige and trade and an agent of social change.