Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction | Paul N. Eubanks and Ashley A. Dumas
Part I. Salt Histories
1. A Millennium of Salt Production in Southwest Alabama | Ashley A. Dumas
2. Prehistoric Uses of Salt and Mineral Springs in the Middle Cumberland Region of North-Central Tennessee | Paul N. Eubanks, Kevin E. Smith, Hannah Guidry, and Larry McKee
3. More Than Just Salt: Middle Tennessee’s Mystical Mineral Springs | Kevin E. Smith and Paul N. Eubanks
4. Production of Salt in the Onondaga Lake Region of New York: From Prehistory to History | Ian W. Brown
5. Salt Production and Consumption in Historic Jamaica | Alyssa Sperry
Part II. Salt in Society
6. Salines in the Late Pleistocene Human Landscape of Southeastern North America | Steven M. Meredith
7. Salt Making among the Precontact Southern Caddo of Arkansas | Ann M. Early
8. Prehistoric Salt Making Writ Small: An Ancestral Caddo Example from East Texas | Nancy A. Kenmotsu and Timothy K. Perttula
9. Salt Archaeology in Northwest Louisiana | Paul N. Eubanks
10. Creating Social Meaning: The Role of Salt in Multicrafting at the Mississippian Periphery | Maureen Meyers
11. The Power of Salt in Gift Exchange and Social Transformation in the Precolonial Caribbean | Joost Morsink
Conclusion: The Quest for Salt | Heather McKillop
Glossary
Bibliography
Contributors
Index