Fish Sauce

Dear colleagues,

We are glad to invite you the attend the “Second International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt”, organized between the 12th and 16th of October 2017 in Los Cabos, Mexico — http://saluniversalis.com

Themes — http://saluniversalis.com/themes
Presentations are invited on any of the following open themes: Salt and Gastronomy, Salt and Medicine, Shamanism, magic, esoterism and witchcraft, Art and salt, Tourism and salt, Religion Rituals and salt, Ecotourism and salt, Salt and science, Salt, astronomy and NASA, Economy and salt, History and salt, Prehistory and salt, Lexicon and vocabulary of salt, Toponymy, Literature and salt, Salt inheritance, Archaeology and salt, Salt, Art rock and petroglyphs, Sal and technology, Health and medicine, Salt and industry, Salt and ancient costumes, Salt and indigenous culture, Salt and university education, Salt palaeontology, Salt and artcraft, Salt and environment, Microbial carpets and salt, Salt and biology, Salt and geology, Salt, beauty, cosmetics and make up, Cinema, music and arts of salt, Photography and salt, Salt and tanning leather, The Encyclopedia of Salt, etc.

Key dates — http://saluniversalis.com/important-dates
– session/workshops proposals submission: 1 January–31 March 2017
– session/workshops proposals: notification of acceptance: 1–16 April 2017
– individual contribution: submission: 17 April–31 July 2017
– individual contribution: notification of acceptance: 1–10 July 2017

Please print and share this call with anyone who might be interested in attending, and this includes not only anthropologists and archaeologists, but also historians, geographers, linguists, etc. You can find more information on the event on its dedicated webpage: http://saluniversalis.com


The Organizing Committee

For two years now, the project "Vulnerability of complex production-networks at the Atlantic Coast of Roman Lusitania" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG TE 590/8-1) has been investigating the dependency of Roman fish sauce production in Hispania on the changing development of its direct environment. At the site of Boca do Rio the interdisciplinary cooperation between the Universities of Marburg, Cologne and Aachen (RWTH) is working locally within the PIPA-project "Boca do Rio, um sítio pesqueiro entre dois mares", led by João Pedro Bernardes (University of Algarve).
Boca do Rio is located in the extreme southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, where together with the Straits of Gibraltar the highest density of fish-sauce-production sites in the whole Roman Empire is reached. Like many other roman coastal settlements and small fishing sites of the region it is situated in a small bay right by the Atlantic sea. The major part of the settlement consists mainly of conglomerates of various small scale workshops as known by other sites of the region. Parallel to the estuary whatsoever, a single big structure of more than 40 m length and 10 m width limited the settlement. As could be proven via geophysical measurements and diagnostic excavation this installation is a combination of a big coherent workshop with, for the site and region, astonishing big vats and adjoining structures that can be interpreted as harbour installations. Here the successive steps of production (workshops, fish sauce) and distribution (harbour, estuary and Open Sea) can be studied within a single structure. Thus this construc-tion plays a key role in the understanding of the site’s functionality and dependency on the stability of the environmental conditions.
The contribution focuses on the methodology of the combination of coring, geophysical pro-spection, diagnostic excavation and the presentation of the preliminary results gained through the first field-campaigns.

Call for Papers

THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF SALT
12–15 September 2018, Salinas de Añana, Basque Country, Spain

vallesalado.com/congressalt


Dear colleagues,

We are glad to invite you the attend the “Third International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt”, organized between the 12th and 15th of  September 2018, in Salinas de Añana, Basque Country, Spain — vallesalado.com/congressalt

Please print and share this call with anyone who might be interested in attending, and this includes not only anthropologists and archaeologists, but also historians, geographers, linguists, and specialists from any domain researching common salt.

You can find more information on the event on its dedicated webpage:  vallesalado.com/congressalt [ENG] / vallesalado.com/congresosal [ESP]


The Scientific Committee