The Katwe salt industry was a key factor in the pre-colonial centrality of the western lakes region in the regional economy of the Great Lakes region of Central Africa that includes present-day Uganda, Rwanda, eastern Congo, southern Sudan, and northern Tanzania. Western Uganda,…
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For many years, the Casamance was a self-sufficient region. Recently, this region has experienced food deficits because of the persistent drought. Given the shortage of rainfall over the last several years and the increasing accumulation of salt, the number of abandoned mangrove…
Salt is a known cross-cultural item of early trade with documented socio-political consequences. Written records on the Ethiopian salt industry go back at least 2,000 years. This dissertation is an ethnoarchaeological investigation of the socio-economic role of the salt trade in…
α-Tocopherol and β-carotene (0.03%) and sodium tripolyphosphate (STP, 0.2 and 0.3%), alone and in combination, were studied in refrigerated, cooked, ground turkey and pork with or without salt (1%). Hexanal was measured after 0, 2, 4, or 6 d storage. α-Tocopherol reduced hexanal…
A major problem for irrigated agricultural production in arid and semi-arid environments is salinization of land. Irrigated land accounts for about one third of the world's food, but nearly one fifth of irrigated lands are salt affected and suffer from reduced yield due to soil …
Two distinct studies within the Saltville Valley of southwestern Virginia revealed insights into local Pleistocene geology and paleontology. A variety of analytical techniques were applied to gravel deposits within the paleontological site of SV-5/7 that revealed this unit is ve…