Archaeology and anthropology of salt
Subtitle: a diachronic approach : proceedings of the international colloquium, 1-5 October 2008, Al. I. Cuza University (Iași, Romani)
By: edited by Marius Alexianu, Olivier Weller, Roxana-Gabriela Curcǎ
Series: BAR international series -- 2198; BAR international series -- 2198.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781407307541
Subjects: Salt industry and trade; Salt; Congresses; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Ethnographic approaches of salt. Salt springs in today's rural world. An etnoarchaeological [sic.] approach in Moldavia (Romania) / Marius Alexianu ... [et al.]; title: New ethnoarchaeological investigations upon the salt springs in Valea Muntelui, Romania / Dan Monah, Gheorghe Dumitroaia, Dorin Nicola; title: Traditional methods of salt mining in Buzǎu County, Romania in the 21st century / Doina Ciobanu; title: El Salado-Ixtahuehue and Benito Juárez-Soconusco: an Ethno-Archaeological Study of Salt Pre-Industries of Southeast Veracruz, Mexico / Jorge A. Ceja Acosta); 5) The Saltmakers of Soconusco and Benito Juárez: an interpretation of ethnoarchaeological data from the perspective of gender and identity / María Luisa Martell Contreras; title: pt. 2. Archaeological salt exploitation. Provadia-Solnitsata (NE Bulgaria): a salt-producing center of the 6th and 5th millennia BC / Vassil Nikolov; title: Tell Provadia-Solnitsata (Bulgaria): data on chalcolithic salt extraction / Viktoria Petrova; title: Spatial analysis of prehistoric salt exploitation in eastern Carpathians (Romania) / Olivier Weller ... [et al.]; title: The Cucuteni C pottery near the Moldavian salt springs / Roxana Munteanu, Daniel Garvǎn; title: Some salt sources in Transylvania and their connections with the archaeological sites in the area / Gheorghe Lazarovici, Cornelia-Magda Lazarovici; title: New archaeological researches concerning saltworking in Transylvania. Preliminary report / Valeriu Cavruc, Anthony F. Harding; title: The beginning of the salt exploitation in Spain: thinking about the salt exploitation in the Iberian Peninsula during prehistoric times / Jesús Jiménez Guijarro; title: pt. 3. Ancient texts and salt. Salt in the antiquity: a quantification essay / Bernard Moinier; title: Hypotheses, considerations - and unknown factors - regarding the demand for salt in ancient Greece / Cristina Carusi; title: Historical development of the 'salinae' in ancient Rome: from technical aspects to political and socio-economic interpretations / Nuria Morère Molinero; title: Salt in tanning, dyeing and cleaning in ancient Egypt / Virginie Delrue; title: pt. 4. Historical approaches. Salt production in Mediterranean Andalusia in the transition from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages / Antonio Malpica Cuello; title: Land organisation and salt production in region of the Salado River (Sigüenza, Province of Guadalajara, Spain): ancient and medieval times. Results of the first campaign 2008 / Antonio Malpica Cuello ... [et al.]; title: Sea salt and land salt. The language of salt and technology transfer (Portugal since the second half of the 18th century) / Inês Amorim; title: A short overview on the main salt production in Italy from the end of the Middle Ages up to the modern period / Valdo D'Arienzo; title: pt. 5. Linguistic and philological approaches. 'Salty' geographical names: a fresh look / Alexander Falileyev; title: Etymological and historical implications of Romanian place-names referring to salt / Adrian Poruciuc; title: Salt in the Greek and Latin aphoristic phrase / Mihaela Paraschiv.