Salt-Production at Kibiro
Salt-Production at Kibiro
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基比罗的制盐
DOI：
10.1080/00672709009511406
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发表时间：
1990
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通讯作者：
A. Piper
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作者：
G. Connah;E. Kamuhangire;A. Piper
在乌干达阿尔伯特湖海岸的基比罗，制盐的方式多年来似乎没有什么变化。盐完全由妇女生产，她们将从盐碱地中浸出的盐水煮沸，其中的盐来自西部裂谷悬崖底部的几个温泉。这种技术的一个不寻常的特点是在含盐矿床的表面反复铺放松散的干土，从而从地面吸收含盐的水分，这些水分又被太阳蒸发，逐渐增加松散土的含盐量。这就是后来被沥滤的土地，然后再循环利用，一次又一次地在所谓的“盐园”中使用。考古证据表明，世纪前首次报道的Kibiro制盐可能已经实行了700-800年。这似乎是前Bunyoro王国发展的一个重要经济因素。
Abstract Salt-making at Kibiro, on the Ugandan shore of Lake Albert, is still carried out in a way that appears to have changed little over the years. Salt is produced exclusively by women, who boil brine obtained from leaching saline earth, the salt in which originates from several hot springs at the base of the Western Rift escarpment. An unusual feature of the technique employed is the repeated spreading of loose dry earth on the surface of the salt-bearing deposits, thus absorbing salty moisture from the ground surface which is in turn evaporated by the sun, gradually increasing the salt-content of the loose earth. It is this earth which is subsequently leached and then recycled to be used again and again on the so-called “salt-gardens”. Archaeological evidence suggests that salt-making at Kibiro, which was first reported over a century ago, has probably been practised for 700–800 years. It seems likely that it was an important economic factor in the development of the former Kingdom of Bunyoro.