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Go to https://buyraycon.com/dandavis to get 20% off Everyday Earbuds Classic. This video was sponsored by Raycon. Across prehistoric Europe there were different kinds of salt sources, extraction methods and processing techniques, carried out from the brine springs of the Carpathians, to the rock salt mines of the Alps, and the salt marshes of eastern England. But what was all this salt used for? Who did the hard work at these sites and who might have ruled over them? And how did salt production and trade transform these societies, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age? This is the surprising story of how salt transformed prehistoric Europe. *If you enjoy my videos please consider supporting the channel* Become a YouTube Channel Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUVwT8zcS5Z_rYXnpomlbfg/join Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dandavisauthor All my books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3xngwz5 *Sources* The Lost World of Old Europe https://amzn.to/44YY7LN Salt: A World History https://amzn.to/4nuJjLi Salt: White Gold in Early Europe https://amzn.to/4ntwGjx Salt in Prehistoric Europe https://amzn.to/3VhFopc The Red Hills of Essex: Salt-making in Antiquity https://amzn.to/3K0mxMV The Red Hills of Essex, Studying Salt in England by Ian Brown Michael Grabner et al, Bronze age dating of timber from the salt-mine at Hallstatt, Austria Vassil Nikolov, The prehistoric salt-production and urban center of Provadia-Solnitsata, Northeastern Bulgaria (2016) Olivier Weller, The earliest salt production in the world: an early Neolithic exploitation in Poiana Slatinei-Lunca, Romania (2005) Olivier Weller, Robin Brigand, Laure Nuninger. SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF SALT SPRINGS EXPLOITATION IN MOLDAVIAN PRE-CARPATIC PREHISTORY (ROMANIA). Morin, D., Lavier, C. & Guiomar, M. (2006). The beginnings of salt extraction in Europe (sixth millennium BC): the salt spring of Moriez (Alpes-de-HauteProvence, France) Antiquity 80 Project Gallery, http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/morin/index.html Local history site http://past.goldhanger.org.uk/Salt.htm The above includes affiliate links so we may make a small commission from your purchases at no additional cost to you which is a way to support the channel. *Thank you* Photos by David MacLeod https://www.instagram.com/graenwulf/ Artistic reconstructions by Ancient Europeans https://www.instagram.com/ancienteuropeans2/ *Video Chapters* 00:00 Salt in Prehistoric Europe 02:00 Sponsor 03:08 Mesolithic Salt Production 05:50 Neolithic Salt Production 09:10 The Salt Fortress of Solnitsata 13:11 Academic Sources 13:34 Bronze Age salt production 15:05 Hallstatt Salt Mines 17:21 Iron Age coastal salt production