SC - Timeline of Food

[Marilyn Traber]

My computer had to be reformatted, and i haven't been able to make the time
to rummage through the archive, but on the munich salt thing, the earliest
known salt mine is IIRC the Halstatd mine in Gernamy somewhere. The only
reason this springs readily to mind is my interest in early Celtic history,
and La Tene [ a lake settlement] and a graveyard and garbage midden in the
Hallstadt mine are the earliest groups to use the decorative motives
commonly ascribed to Celts. If memory also serves me, there were findings of
the breceltic Beaker culture also in the aea, so that would end up dating
settlement to abour 4000 BC or so. With the discovery of various trade goods
from the Hallstadt region on the southern side of the Alps, I dont have any
problem in any form of salt trade well into periods predating classical
medeterranean culture.
margali
- -----Original Message-----
From: Decker, Terry D. <TerryD at Health.State.OK.US>
To: 'sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG' <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 11:50 AM
Subject: RE: SC - Timeline of Food



>I like the tidbit about the Romans learning to use soap from the Gauls.
I'm
>curious about the Munich salt trade.  And I wonder what they were calling
>brazilwood (probably braisewood) in 1193, since Caesalpinia echinata,
really
>is a Brazilian plant?
>
>Did they include a source bibliography in the book?
>
>Bear


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