Caribbean, Latin America (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Konrad A. Antczak.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The saltpan of the largely forgotten Venezuelan island of La Tortuga was during the seventeenth and eighteenth century central to the functioning of the British Atlantic economy. I retrace the itineraries of the free solar sea salt that was harvested by Anglo-American seafarers at...