A Filtered Past: Interpreting Salt Production and Trade Models from Two Remnant Brine-Enrichment Mounds at the Ancient Maya Paynes Creek Salt Works, Belize
A Filtered Past: Interpreting Salt Production and Trade Models from Two Remnant Brine-Enrichment Mounds at the Ancient Maya Paynes Creek Salt Works, Belize
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过滤的过去：解释伯利兹古代玛雅佩恩斯溪盐厂的两个残余盐水富集土丘的盐生产和贸易模式
DOI：
10.1080/00934690.2018.1557993
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
H. McKillop
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作者：
Rachel Watson;H. McKillop
摘要维兹纳布和杀人蜂的土丘是伯利兹佩恩斯溪国家公园的大型盐水系统蓬塔伊卡科斯泻湖曾经繁荣的盐业的唯一已知的地面证据。超过100个古玛雅盐场可追溯到古典时期（公元300-900年）已被淹没在泻湖的海平面上升。我们假设，土丘曾经是众多的功能在景观之前，海平面上升，发生在该地区在终端经典时期。在这些水下地点缺乏的是土丘形成的废弃土壤从沥滤过程中，海水的盐度是通过沥滤盐水通过含盐土壤。通过沥滤或太阳蒸发来增加海水的盐度在人种学案例研究中几乎是普遍的。从挖掘的数据进行评估，以解释古代的活动，产生土丘，生产规模，以及如何沿海的玛雅南部伯利兹参与了更大的古典玛雅经济。
ABSTRACT The mounds at Witz Naab and Killer Bee are the only known remaining aboveground evidence of a once-thriving salt industry in Punta Ycacos Lagoon, a large saltwater system in Paynes Creek National Park, Belize. Over one hundred ancient Maya salt works dated to the Classic period (a.d. 300–900) have been submerged by sea-level rise in the lagoon. We have hypothesized that mounds were once numerous features on the landscape prior to a sea-level rise that occurred in the area during the Terminal Classic period. Lacking at these underwater sites are earthen mounds formed by discarded soil from the leaching process in which the salinity of seawater was enriched by leaching brine through salty soil. Enriching the salinity of seawater by leaching or by solar evaporation is virtually universal in ethnographic case studies. Data from the excavations are evaluated to interpret the ancient activities that produced the earthen mounds, scales of production, and how the coastal Maya of southern Belize participated in the larger Classic Maya economy.