2011•AntiquityRequires access
The Beaker salt production centre of Molino Sanchón II, Zamora, Spain
Elisa Guerra Doce, Germán Delibes de Castro, Francisco Javier Abarquero-Moras, Jesús M. del Val-Recio, Ángel L. Palomino-Lázaro
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Abstract
The authors take us to the salt lakes of Villafáfila in north-west Spain, where they have demonstrated by excavation that salt extraction had begun by the second half of the third millennium BC. The salt pans uncovered were accompanied by copious amounts of decorated Beaker pottery, for which political and symbolic interpretations are proposed.