Additional Considerations for Prehispanic Saltmaking in Belize
- 1 July 1991
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 56 (3) , 520-525
- https://doi.org/10.2307/280900
Abstract
A recently described set of ceramic artifacts have been functionally assigned to saltmaking by MacKinnon and Kepecs (1989), who concluded that saltmaking activity was focused on producing salt for commoners. While we are in agreement about saltmaking activities along the Belizean coast, we propose that saltmaking there perhaps was oriented toward meat and fish preservation for transport into interior population centers during the Terminal Classic period.Keywords
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