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Reconstruction of work within the enormous and vitally important Hallstatt salt mine in Austria (by Dominic Groebner)
The early Iron Age Hallstatt culture emerges from the late Bronze Age Urnfield culture.
The great salt mine was so productive it helped the chiefs who controlled it to expand their regional power.
An abundance of salt also helped meat preservation through the winter and helped to make healthier, larger populations not just here but in the lands throughout Europe that imported tons of this salt.
The early Iron Age Hallstatt culture emerges from the late Bronze Age Urnfield culture.
The great salt mine was so productive it helped the chiefs who controlled it to expand their regional power.
An abundance of salt also helped meat preservation through the winter and helped to make healthier, larger populations not just here but in the lands throughout Europe that imported tons of this salt.