Dr.
Nenad N.
Tasić
University of Belgrade
The Neolithic Settlement Pattern and Salt
During the history of mankind numerous relationships, alliances and animosities
have depended on salt.
Salt was the cause for waging many a war.
Salt was the source of...
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Dr.
Nenad N.
Tasić
University of Belgrade
The Neolithic Settlement Pattern and Salt
During the history of mankind numerous relationships, alliances and animosities
have depended on salt.
Salt was the cause for waging many a war.
Salt was the source of
wealth, and a cause of the rise or destruction of many a state.
Although it still is a basic
strategic commodity, only recently have we come to pass over it, at least in everyday life.
A necesse est commodity such as that (yet so perishable from archaeological
records), salt has been taken for granted and overlooked in discussions about the problems
of the genesis of the Neolithic.
The importance of trade and exchange in the Neolithic
period has been discussed amply in archaeological literature, often dealing with obsidian,
flint, quartz, sulphur, bitumen, spondilus, cinnabar etc.
However, proper attention has been
paid neither to the use of salt nor to the trade and exchange of this indispensable
commodity.
The most probable exp
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