Sal para los rebaños: explotación salinera y consumo ganadero en la Cataluña medieval (s. IX-XII)
Salt for the flocks: salt exploitation and livestock consumption in medieval Catalonia (9th-12th c.)
Abstract
We analyse the strategies for the supply, production and consumption of salt in the inland Catalonia in the early medieval centuries (9th-12th centuries). We assess the volume of salt needed to supply the livestock of monastic establishments and small landowners whose production strategies focused on self-sufficiency. We analyse to what extent the inland production centres had sufficient capacity to supply salt and cover the needs of the herds that grazed on the inland plains in winter and in the high Pyrenean valleys in summer.
Analizamos las estrategias de abastecimiento, producción y consumo de sal del interior de Catalunya para los siglos altomedievales (IX-XII). Valoramos el volumen de sal necesario para abastecer al ganado de los establecimientos monásticos y de los pequeños propietarios cuyas estrategias de producción se centraban en el autoabastecimiento. Analizamos hasta qué punto los centros productores del interior tenían suficiente capacidad para abastecer de sal y cubrir las necesidades de los rebaños que pastaban en las tierras llanas del interior en invierno y en los altos valles pirenaicos en verano.
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