P1 amended 00 Preface, openingTable salt in a Berlin shop comes from a mine near Bernburg on the Saale
- To check against
- esco / K+S plant list (Bernburg is a K+S salt works); check that retail salt in Berlin is plausibly from there or generalise to "a mine in Saxony-Anhalt"
- The verdict
- AMENDED
- Found
- kpluss.com/en-us/about-ks/sites/europe/bernburg/ ; esco-salt.com/bernburg.html
- Note
- Bernburg (Saale) is confirmed as a major K+S/esco salt works producing food-grade and table salt (99% NaCl), so the mine exists and makes retail-grade salt. But no source found confirming that a specific Berlin shop's salt is traceable to Bernburg rather than the more common Bad Reichenhall/Süddeutsche Salzwerke brands sold in Berlin supermarkets. Propose the brief's own fallback: "a mine in Saxony-Anhalt" or "a mine near Bernburg, on the Saale" without asserting the specific shop-to-mine chain.
P2 confirmed 00 Preface, The good newsIron smelted from bog ore in clay furnaces in the Brandenburg woods
- To check against
- Archaeology of Raseneisenerz smelting in Brandenburg (Slavic and medieval bloomeries, e.g. Glienick, Spreewald); a museum or Landesarchäologie source
- The verdict
- CONFIRMED
- Found
- academia.edu/80628125/The_Teltow_an_Early_Iron_Smelting_D… (Glienick-type bloomeries, Teltow/Brandenburg, bog iron/Raseneisenerz smelted in clay-walled bloomery furnaces)
- Note
- Matches the "Glienick" example named in the check-against column. The best-documented Brandenburg bog-iron smelting is pre-Roman Iron Age (Jastorf culture) rather than exclusively "Slavic and medieval," though Slavic-period bloomeries are also attested regionally; wording is fine as a general claim about the practice occurring in Brandenburg's woods.
P3 amended 00 Preface, What it takes"300 people ... the number a human being can know by name"
- To check against
- Dunbar 1992/1993 (150) and the 500 tier; soften wording if needed
- The verdict
- AMENDED
- Found
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number (citing Dunbar 1992/1993)
- Note
- Dunbar's number for stable, meaningful relationships is 150, not 300; the tier for people one can "recognise and put a name to" is about 500. "300" matches neither tier. Proposed: "150 — Dunbar's number, the tier of people we can hold a stable relationship with" (or, if the sense wanted is name-recognition, "500, the number Dunbar's research suggests we can know by name").