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<< Text Pages >> Ka'k' Naab' saltworks - Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in Belize

Submitted by bat400 on Tuesday, 12 October 2010  Page Views: 5918

Multi-periodSite Name: Ka'k' Naab' saltworks Alternative Name: Punta Ycacos Lagoon saltworks
Country: Belize
NOTE: This site is 59.646 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: New Haven, Belize
Latitude: 16.267000N  Longitude: 88.6W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Ancient Industry in Belize.
One of multiple saltworks dating to the Late Classic Period (~670AD-870AD). The sites were submerged as sea levels rose, but remains of distinctive pottery for boiling salt water, ceramic stands, and wooden posts from buildings have been found from survays in the shallow water.

Note: The location given is very general. Sources include: Finds in Belize document Late Classic Maya salt making and canoe transport, Heather McKillop, 2005.

Note: Was this the industry that supplied salt to the Mayan city states? Researchers receive grant. See comment.
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Researchers receive grant; Was salt mover and shaker in ancient society? by bat400 on Tuesday, 12 October 2010
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BATON ROUGE – Researchers will be investigating a massive salt industry in Paynes Creek National Park, Belize, including its submergence by sea-level rise and the wooden structures preserved in a peat bog below the seafloor. In antiquity, hunting and gathering societies generally obtained enough salt from wild animal meat and plants. Access to salt – from mining, solar evaporation and brine boiling – appears with the rise of agriculture, permanent villages and dense populations of cities. Salt was in short supply in the interior of the Yucatan peninsula in Central America, where the ancient Maya civilization developed (A.D. 300-900). The salt works in Paynes Creek National Park, Belize, may provide a possible solution to inland salt needs during the Classic Maya civilization.

Could enough salt have been produced at the Paynes Creek sites and elsewhere along the coast of Belize to supply nearby inland Maya cities? The scientists will be looking for evidence of how the ancient Maya at inland cities obtained a regular supply of salt: was it by direct state administered trade or more indirectly through tribute, taxation or trading alliances with the coastal Maya? The stunning preservation of wooden architecture at the Paynes Creek salt works was due to peat created as red mangroves kept pace with rising seas, which eventually drowned the Paynes Creek salt works.

The project, titled "Ancient Maya Wooden Architecture and the Salt Industry," was awarded to McKillop, LSU Department of Geography and Anthropology; Roberts, LSU Coastal Studies and Department of Oceanography and Coastal Studies; and McKee, United States Geological Survey Wetlands Research National Center, and LSU Geography and Anthropology adjunct faculty.

McKillop will direct underwater excavations of the Paynes Creek salt works, which have wooden buildings preserved in a peat bog below the sea floor, as well as "briquetage" – pottery from boiling brine to produce salt. Roberts will lead a team using remote sensing in an automated vessel designed for shallow water to record bathymetry and search for buried remains. Winemiller will work with Roberts' team to integrate the imagery into the project GIS and also to expand the display of wooden architecture to three-dimensional views. McKee will direct a systematic program of sediment coring across the lagoon system. Analysis of the sediment will help to reconstruct the ancient landscape during the Holocene, with emphasis on the land, vegetation patterns and sea-level changes related to the ancient Maya sites.

The wooden structures, along with the first reported ancient Maya wooden canoe paddle from the K'ak' Naab' underwater site, were discovered in 2004. With a previous NSF grant, McKillop and team of LSU students, mapped 4,000 wooden posts defining rectangular buildings, as well as other structures that may have been platforms to leach salt soil before the boiling process. Since stone buildings and the mounded remains of perishable structures dominate the modern landscape of Maya sites, the Paynes Creek wooden structures provide a key to documenting ancient wooden buildings, to evaluating analogies with modern structures and for providing analogues for other ancient sites.

For more, see http://www.eurekalert.org.
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