Salt Making: Restoring a Historic Landscape
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 2: Basque: Innovation by Culture / 2.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 June 30
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0630_Basque_Euskaldunak_Dialogues_0008
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content: Iker Arranz Otaegui (presenter); Edorta Loma; Alberto Plata (participants) Learn about the history of salt making in this lecture and discussion with Basque salt makers. In the valley and town of Añana (Araba), people have been producing salt for over six thousand years from a spring three hundred times saltier than the ocean formed during the Triassic Period, a geologic period from roughly 252 to 201 million years ago.In 2009, the Salt Valley of Añana Foundation was founded to help restore the landscape, dilapidated from the use of concrete and metal. They work with local salt makers to revalorize traditional salt making and develop new drying techniques and market products.