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This paper examines the importance of the oldest chronological layer of the intangible heritage concerning the exploitation of salt springs, which is fortuitously still recoverable in Romania at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This layer, which comprises the first half of the twentieth century, has been investigated systematically through ethnological inquiries only since 2007, as part of two projects on the ethnoarchaeology of salt. Solely on the basis of this old layer, it was possible to study the complex relationships established between the salt springs and the various types of settlements supplied with natural brine, with ignigenous salt or even with naturally recrystallized salt. Additionally, the paper uses those elements of the intangible heritage that highlight the economic and symbolic dimensions that complete the purely archaeological approaches of the issue of salt springs.
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This study was made possible with the financial support of the Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports of Romania (Exploratory Research Project PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0825, The Ethnoarchaeology of Salt Springs and Salt Mountains from the Extra-Carpathian Areas of Romania, No. 219/2011—http://ethnosalro.uaic.ro).
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Alexianu, M., Weller, O., Brigand, R. (2016). Romanian Salt Springs, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Archaeological Reconstruction: A Variable Geometry. In: Biagetti, S., Lugli, F. (eds) The Intangible Elements of Culture in Ethnoarchaeological Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23153-2_18
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