Salt Harvesting
Gathering salt from natural deposits (mining) or through the evaporation of seawater (coastal pans).
Core metadata
- ID: salt_harvesting
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -10000 (millennium)
- Region: Global / multiple regions
- Review status: structurally_validated
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
Dependents
- Cheese and Yogurt Making (cheese_and_yogurt_making)
- Food Preservation (Drying, Salting) (food_preservation_drying_salting)
- Smoked Food Preservation (smoked_food_preservation)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the Acheulean strata of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape province, South Africa (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, primary_paper) • Supports: edge
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 2
- Average edge confidence: 72%
- Prerequisite sources: 1
- expert_inference: 2
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prospecting (prospecting) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Prospecting provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
| Fire Control (fire_control) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Fire Control is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. |
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