Greek and Phoenician colonies spread fish-salting industriesJan 1, 7000 BCELabels: Phoenician colonies, Greek colonies, Fish-salting vatsBritannica PhoeniciaBritannica Amphora
Salt and preservation become vital to early statesJan 1, 2000 BCELabels: Early states, Salt provisioningBritannica SaltBritannica Preservation
Early Bronze Age mining at Duzdağı beginsJan 1, 2000 BCELabels: Duzda, Salt mineANAS DuzdagNakhchivan List
New Kingdom Egypt depicts fish salting practicesJan 1, 1450 BCELabels: New Kingdom, Fish-salting craftMet MuseumNCBI Saltfish
Hallstatt region salt mining grows in Late Bronze AgeJan 1, 1100 BCELabels: Hallstatt, Salt miningBritannica HallstattNHM Vienna
Iron Age “briquetage” supports mass salt-making in EuropeJan 1, 800 BCELabels: Briquetage, Seille valleyAntiquity SeilleQSR Seille
Qi state ideas link salt control to public financeJan 1, 350 BCELabels: Qi state, GuanziGuanzi TextSalt China
Han Empire nationalizes salt and iron industriesJan 1, 117 BCELabels: Han Empire, State monopolyHan DynastyJStage Salt
Roman “cetariae” expand salted fish and sauce outputJan 1, 50 BCELabels: Cetariae, Baelo ClaudiaWHE BaeloSpringer Fish
Magdala/Tarichaea becomes associated with fish saltingJan 1, 50Labels: Tarichaea, MagdalaMagdalaTarichaea
Pliny records Roman knowledge of salt and salted goodsJan 1, 77Labels: Pliny the, Natural HistoryPliny NHPliny Elder
Diocletian’s Price Edict lists salt and fish productsJan 1, 301Labels: Diocletian, Price EdictPrice Edict
Late antique amphorae carry salted fish across MediterraneanJan 1, 400Labels: Late Antiquity, AmphoraeMNARQA AmphoraSpringer Fish