UN SITIO PARA LA PRODUCCIÓN DE SAL EN EL GOLFO DE BARATTI (TOSCANA, ITALIA) EN EL MARCO DE LA ECONOMÍA DE LAS COMUNIDADES DE LOS APENINOS CENTRALES DURANTE LA EDAD DEL BRONCE FINAL.

[Autom. eng. transl.] Archaeological excavations carried out on the beach of the gulf from Baratti (Piombino, Tuscany) have documented a protohistoric site for the production of sea salt dated to the age of the Final Bronze Age (10th century BC). Detailed sequence analysis stratigraphy has allowed us to attest to the use of fire in the salt mining activities and possibly the production of blocks suitable to be easily transported and exchanged. In this regard, it is worth noting the close relationship between the production and commercialization of blocks of salt in the coastal areas of Tuscany and the development of an economy pastoral care and transhumance between the communities that during the late Bronze Age occupied the Apennine regions central. The new data provided by the investigations of Baratti suggest reconsidering the nature of a series of settlements located in the area surrounding the gulf (Riva degli Etruschi, La Torraccia and Torre Mozza), who have provided ceramic materials of similar chronology and that, as paleoenvironmental reconstructions show, were located in a favorable environment for the exploitation of sea salt.