Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2023
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in 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.
Salt, Cod and Sugar are associated with distinct regions of the Atlantic World and vastly diverse historical and social contexts. However, these commodities are the constituents of a triptych which initiated trade networks, perpetuated circulation of goods and mobility of individuals connecting far-flung territories of the Atlantic World from the 16th century onward. This symposium examines associated phenomena, such as the importance of Caribbean and European saltpans for the processing of meat and fish, notably cod. It explores the impact of codfish on Caribbean, South American and African foodways, and in return the importance of sugar and its by-products for provisioning trading ships and fishing fleets. Our goal is to connect archaeologists working in various regions of the Atlantic World - in the same fashion that in the past, these regions were transnational - to discuss the global impact of Salt, Cod and Sugar on local narrative and archaeological contexts.
Site Type Keywords
Water-Related •
Shipping-Related Structure •
Shipwreck
Other Keywords
Salt •
Sugar •
Landscape Archaeology •
Maritime Archaeology •
cod fishery •
Trade •
Commerce •
Burials •
Material Culture •
Zooarchaeology
Culture Keywords
Historic •
Euroamerican
Investigation Types
Collections Research •
Historic Background Research
Material Types
Ceramic •
Glass •
Metal •
Mineral •
Wood
Temporal Keywords
modern time
Geographic Keywords
Europe •
Newfoundland •
West Africa •
Atlantic World •
South India •
Caribbean, Latin America •
Gulf of Saint Lawrence •
French West Indies, Réunion Island •
Carribean, French Guiana, France •
Newfoundland, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, North Atlantic
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- Documents (14)
Beyond Bacalao: Indigenous Seafaring and Adaptations in Response to the Transatlantic Fisheries (2023)
Cod Salted, an Essential Commodity of the French Sugar Colonies in the Colonial Period: Zooarchaeological Reality. (2023)
Funerary Practices Of The Basques In The Modern Age Americas. Comparing Colonial And Extractive Environments. (2023)
Haunted salt: how the saltpan of Venezuelan La Tortuga Fed the enslaved and powered the Sugar Revolution, 1638-1781 (2023)