Archaeological and chemical evidence for early salt production in China

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 35, 2005, Pages 12618-12622

  Flad, Rowan ^a   Zhu, Jiping ^b,c   Wang, Changsui ^d   Chen, Pochan ^e   Von Falkenhausen, Lothar ^f   Sun, Zhibin ^g   Li, Shuicheng ^h  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Sichuan Provincial Institute of Archeology   (China)

^h PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese archaeology; Scanning electron microscopy; Three Gorges; X ray diffraction; X ray fluorescence

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; FOOD PROCESSING; HISTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 24644479739     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0502985102     Document Type: Article

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