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The Beaker salt production centre of Molino Sanchón II, Zamora, Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Elisa Guerra-Doce ,
Germán Delibes de Castro ,
F. Javier Abarquero-Moras ,
Jesús M. del Val-Recio  and
Ángel L. Palomino-Lázaro
Elisa Guerra-Doce*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Prehistoria, Universidad de Valladolid, Plaza del Campus s/n, 47011 Valladolid, Spain (Email: elisa.guerra@uva.es; delibes@fyl.uva.es; fjabarquero@yahoo.es)
Germán Delibes de Castro
Affiliation:
Departamento de Prehistoria, Universidad de Valladolid, Plaza del Campus s/n, 47011 Valladolid, Spain (Email: elisa.guerra@uva.es; delibes@fyl.uva.es; fjabarquero@yahoo.es)
F. Javier Abarquero-Moras
Affiliation:
Departamento de Prehistoria, Universidad de Valladolid, Plaza del Campus s/n, 47011 Valladolid, Spain (Email: elisa.guerra@uva.es; delibes@fyl.uva.es; fjabarquero@yahoo.es)
Jesús M. del Val-Recio
Affiliation:
Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural, Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, Junta de Castilla y León, Avda. Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de Prado s/n, 47014 Valladolid, Spain (Email: valrecje@jcyl.es)
Ángel L. Palomino-Lázaro
Affiliation:
Aratikos Arqueólogos, Estación 37 2° A, 47004 Valladolid, Spain (Email: aratikos@aratikos.e.telefonica.net)
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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.

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IberiaBeaker periodthird millennium BCsaltpotterysymbolismpower
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Antiquity , Volume 85 , Issue 329 , September 2011 , pp. 805 - 818
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2011

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