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DOI	10.1080/0067270X.2021.1966213
	Technical ceramics for salt production in Western Sahara
	Larreina-Garcia, David; Saenz de Buruaga, Andoni; Vinagre, Andoni Tarrino; Notario, Belen
通讯作者	Larreina-Garcia, D (corresponding author)，Ctr Nacl Invest Evoluc Humana CENIEH, Paseo Sierra Atapuerca 3, Burgos 09002, Spain.
来源期刊	AZANIA-ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA
ISSN	0067-270X
EISSN	1945-5534
出版年	2021
卷号	56 期号:3
英文摘要	This paper presents evidence of ceramic technology in western Tiris (Western Sahara), dated by thermoluminescence to the third millennium cal. BP. Western Tiris is an arid region mostly covered by desert where recent archaeological fieldwork has nevertheless revealed a significant network of settlements from the Neolithic period inhabited by nomadic people. Domestic pottery and lithic materials are common in the archaeological register of these sites, but three sherds found in the Lejuad XVII rockshelter present features typical of technical ceramics. Laboratory analyses reveal that abundant mineral and organic temper was added to the natural clay which, in addition to the presence of thicker walls than those usually found in domestic pottery, is interpreted as an attempt to increase resistance to thermal shocks. However, the fragments present only mild signals of exposure to high temperatures, up to a maximum of 900 degrees C. Discussion of these contradictory data leads to the conclusion that the sherds may have been part of a briquetage mould to extract salt by evaporation, a pyrotechnical industry previously unknown in Western Sahara. Its appearance in an arid environment far from production centres is explained as result of sporadic economic activity rather than cross-cultural mobility and trading, which seems to have been intense in the area from Neolithic times. In addition, this paper introduces the use of micro-computed tomography (mu-CT) as a technique for measuring large porosity derived from burned organic materials.
英文关键词	briquetage Western Sahara salt mobility mu-CT porosity calculation
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000686003600001
WOS关键词	POTTERY ; 4TH
WOS类目	Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Archaeology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/375951
作者单位	[Larreina-Garcia, David; Notario, Belen] Ctr Nacl Invest Evoluc Humana CENIEH, Paseo Sierra Atapuerca 3, Burgos 09002, Spain; [Saenz de Buruaga, Andoni; Vinagre, Andoni Tarrino] Univ Basque Country, UPV EHU, Miguel Unamuno 3, Vitoria 01006, Spain
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Larreina-Garcia, David,Saenz de Buruaga, Andoni,Vinagre, Andoni Tarrino,et al. Technical ceramics for salt production in Western Sahara[J],2021,56(3).
APA	Larreina-Garcia, David,Saenz de Buruaga, Andoni,Vinagre, Andoni Tarrino,&Notario, Belen.(2021).Technical ceramics for salt production in Western Sahara.AZANIA-ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA,56(3).
MLA	Larreina-Garcia, David,et al."Technical ceramics for salt production in Western Sahara".AZANIA-ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA 56.3(2021).