Ressourcen, Umwelt und Ernährung

This volume offers an insight into the lifeworld of the Iron Age population living around the mining site of Dürrnberg bei Hallein and sheds light on the conditions in which it became possible to run a flourishing underground salt mine in the second half of the 1st millennium B.C.. The main focus is on studies of the virtually unique palaeo-faeces assemblage. The remains of these human excrements allow us to draw far-reaching conclusions on the daily life of the miners, their diet and health. In addition, we present the wood anatomy study of the timbers and wooden artefacts used underground. On the basis of these assemblages, we attempt a thorough modelling of daily life in terms of forest use and trade, as well as the relations and networks into which this prominent site was enmeshed.