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Ethnoarchaeology of Salt in Romania

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Introduction

Hallstatt, Vallée de la Seille, and Halle/Saale have been, for more than a century, famous European archaeological sites connected to the prehistoric exploitation of salt. The number of such sites has gradually increased, with the last three to four decades witnessing an unprecedented research impetus across all continents, which consolidated the syntagma Archaeology of Salt. Starting in the 1970s, Southeastern Europe became the spotlight in this regard, producing evidence of the worlds’ oldest (Neolithic and Chalcolithic) production of recrystallized salt from salt springs (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Romania, and Bulgaria).

Southeastern Europe is one of the rare areas of the continent with considerable ethnoarchaeological potential. It began to be valued through significant approaches beginning in the 1980s (Nandris 1985, 1987). Despite the progress, this potential is still far from being exhausted (Zidarov and Grębska-Kulow 2013). The importance of ethnoarchaeological research...

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