Archaeology and Anthropology of Salt: A Diachronic Approach: Proceedings of the International Colloquium, 1-5 October 2008 Al. I. Cuza University (Iaşi, Romania)

The Proceedings of the International Colloquium (1-5 October 2008) held at Al. I. Cuza University (Iasi, Romania) on the Archaeology and Anthropology of Salt. Contents: 1) Salt Springs in Todays Rural World. An Etnoarchaeological Approach in Moldavia (Romania) (Marius Alexianu et al.); 2) New Ethnoarchaeological Investigations upon the Salt Springs in Valea Muntelui, Romania (Dan Monah, Gheorghe Dumitroaia, Dorin Nicola); 3) Traditional Methods of Salt Mining in Buzau County, Romania in the 21st Century (Doina Ciobanu); 4) 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); 6) Provadia-Solnitsata (NE Bulgaria): A Salt-Producing Center of the 6th and 5th Millennia BC (Vassil Nikolov); 7) Tell Provadia-Solnitsata (Bulgaria): Data on Chalcolithic Salt Extraction (Viktoria Petrova); 8) Spatial Analysis of Prehistoric Salt Exploitation in Eastern Carpathians (Romania) (Olivier Weller et al.); 9) The Cucuteni C Pottery near the Moldavian Salt Springs (Roxana Munteanu, Daniel Garvan); 10) Some Salt Sources in Transylvania and their Connections with the Archaeological Sites in the Area (Gheorghe Lazarovici, Cornelia-Magda Lazarovici); 11) New Archaeological Researches concerning Saltworking in Transylvania. Preliminary Report (Valeriu Cavruc, Anthony F. Harding); 12) The Beginning of the Salt Exploitation in Spain: Thinking about the Salt Exploitation in the Iberian Peninsula during Prehistoric Times (Jesús Jiménez Guijarro); 13) Salt in the Antiquity: a Quantification Essay (Bernard Moinier); 14) Hypotheses, Considerations and unknown Factors regarding the Demand for Salt in Ancient Greece (Cristina Carusi); 15) Historical Development of the salinae in Ancient Rome: from Technical Aspects to Political and Socio-Economic Interpretations (Nuria Morère Molinero); 16) Salt in Tanning, Dyeing and Cleaning in Ancient Egypt (Virginie Delrue); 17) Salt Production in Mediterranean Andalusia in the Transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (Antonio Malpica Cuello); 18) Land Organisation and Salt Production in Region of the Salado River (Sigueenza, Province of Guadalajara, Spain): Ancient and Medieval Times. Results of the First Campaign 2008 (Antonio Malpica Cuello et al.); 19) Sea Salt and Land Salt. The Language of Salt and Technology Transfer (Portugal since the Second Half of the 18th Century) (Inês Amorim); 20) A short Overview on the Main Salt Production in Italy from the End of the Middle Ages up to the Modern Period (Valdo DArienzo); 21) Salty Geographical Names: A Fresh Look (Alexander Falileyev); 22) Etymological and Historical Implications of Romanian Place-Names Referring to Salt (Adrian Poruciuc); 23) Salt in the Greek and Latin Aphoristic Phrase (Mihaela Paraschiv).