Mirrors of Salt : 20-24 August 2015, 'Al. I. Cuza' University, Iași, Romania.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexianu, Marius.

Contributor:

Curcă, Roxana-Gabriela.

Weller, Olivier.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology.

Anthropology.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (477 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2023.

Summary:

The study of salt from an anthropological perspective provides a holistic view of its role in the evolution of human communities. Studies from around the world, ranging from prehistory to modern times, are here organized into 6 sections: theory, archaeology, history, ethnography/ ethnoarchaeology/ethnohistory, linguistics, and literature.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright page

Contents Page

Foreword

Theoretical Approaches

Salt: Anthropology of a Quasi Amethodic Topic. Some Thoughts

Marius Alexianu

The 'Sapientia' of Salt

Archaeology

The Qraya Salt Experiment. Reenacting Salt Production Processes of Protohistoric Mesopotamia

Beatrice Hopkinson, Giorgio Buccellati

Research on the use of Hallstatt's stone axes: Study of mechanics

Alfons Fíguls1, Kerstin Kowarik2, Hans Reschreiter2

Considerations on Salt Exploitation in Bukovina, from Prehistory to Modern Times

Mugur Andronic, Bogdan P. Niculică

Unique Cucuteni Artefacts Used in the Salt Recrystallization Process

Constantin Preoteasa

Case Study: Oglinzi - Băi Area (Neamț County, Romania)

Vasile Diaconu1, Gheorghe Dumitroaia(†)

The Exploitation and Control of Salt Sources from the Early Neolithic to Late Antiquity.

A Tiny Story About Salt, Herding and Landscape in Chalcolithic and Late Bronze Age Eastern Romania

A Technological Approach to the Production Sequence at the Beaker Brine-Boiling Site of Molino Sanchón II (Villafáfila, Zamora, Spain): Some Hypotheses about the Moulding of Salt using Organic Containers

Assessing the Role of Salt in the Spread of the Beaker Phenomenon across Western Europe during the Third Millennium BC

Elisa Guerra-Doce

'Reddish olle' and Production and Use of Salt: an Open Question

Tomaso Di Fraia

Salt in Southwest Germany at the End of the Iron Age

Martin Hees

Salt Control and Distribution in the Southern Part of Eastern Carpathians. A Story of a Lost Dacian Hillfort

Geophysical Prospections in the Area of the Salt Mine at Sânpaul

Alexandru Popa

Salt Production as a Reflection of Inter-Ethnic Contact and Culture Change during Late Prehistory (AD 800-1100) in South Alabama, United States

Ashley A. Dumas.

Recent Archaeology of Salt in Southeastern North America

Ashley A. Dumas

Towards an Archaeology of Salt Production in Ireland

Wes Forsythe, Rosemary McConkey, Colin Breen

The Vall Salina: More than 6500 years of Halite Exploitation. Cardona, the Salt of History

Alfons Fíguls1, Olivier Weller2, Thomas Xaver Schuhmacher3, Mireia Martínez1, Raül Segarra4, Rosa M. Lanaspa1, Marc Cots1, Aitor Henestrosa1

Where the Salt 'Kerns': Historical Archaeological Investigations at the Saltpans of the Venezuelan Islands, 17th-19th Century

Konrad A. Antczak

History

Salt Outlets: Which Statistical Profiles in the Roman Empire?

Bernard M. Moinier

Underground Waters as a Source of Salt: Reflections on the Technological Variations of their Use in the South of Mexico

Blas R. Castellón Huerta

Salt 'Roads' in Moldavia by the 18th Century: Production, Transportation and Consumption

A Less Known Practice: Making Salt Cakes in Wooden Vessels.The Testimony of a Foreign Traveller to Moldavia

Vasile Diaconu, Roxana Diaconu

Organization and Functioning of the Salt Extracting Industry in Bessarabia (1812-1850)

Andrei Emilciuc

From Blessing to Punishment: The Salt Issue within the Romanian Landscape in the 19th Century as Seen by Foreign Travellers

Mircea-Cristian Ghenghea

Use of Salt in the Christian Church of Late Antiquity: Literary and Archaeological Evidence

Ioan Iaţcu

The First Systematic Research on the Salt Springs of Bukovina: an Austrian Report from 1783

Vasile Diacon

Ethnography, Ethnoarchaeology, Ethnohistory

Anthropological Studies of Salt in Mexico in the Last 20 Years: An Overview

Huixtocíhuatl. Goddess of Salt

Martha Monzón Flores

Making Salt in Maras (Cusco, Peru): Traditional Salt Production Systems in the Context of Heritage Economy

Oriol Beltran.

Salt: a Crucial Feature of Mongolian Nomadism Success

Francesca Lugli

The Role of the Oasis of Selima (Sudan) in the Long Distance Trade of Salty Rocks in the Sudanese Western Desert in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Usage of Salt in Therapy and as a Magical Cure among Mongolian Ethnic Groups

Dulam Sendenjav

Salt in Georgia

Manana Odisheli

Salt, History and Culture in the Western Grasslands of Cameroon

Henry Kam Kah

Unity of Sacred and Profane in the Traditional Salt Industry of the Okposi Igbo of South-Eastern Nigeria

Peter-Jazzy Ezeh

Notes for the Intangible Heritage in Dâmbovița County

Ana Ilie

Salt in the Traditions of the Romanians.

Ethnoarchaeological Research in the Subcarpathian Area of Romania

Felix-Adrian Tencariu, Andrei Asăndulesei, Marius Alexianu

Traditional Use of Natural Brine

Salt Symbolism in the Work of Elena Niculiță-Voronca

Mihaela Asăndulesei

Ukrainian Traditional Salt Traders ('Chumaks') in the North of the Sea of Azov (Case Study of Berdyansk Area)

Igor Lyman, Victoria Konstantinova

Linguistics

Germanic Lexical Evidence that Clarifies the Multiple Meanings of the Old European Root *sal-

Imagery of Salt in Romanian Phraseology. Cultural Aspects (Romania)

Petronela Savin

The Morphosyntax of Salt-Related Words, Idioms, Similes and Proverbs in English and Romanian

Ileana Oana Macari

Morphonyms Related to 'Slatină' and 'Slătioară' in Eastern Romania

The Biography of the Romanian Expression a făgădui marea cu sarea (Romania)

Literature

Black Sea Salinity as a Reflection of Environmental and Climate Conditions in Ovid's Poems During the Exile Period in Tomis (SE Romania)

Salt in Ancient Opsartytikón Literature

Mihaela Paraschiv.

Latin Testimonies on the Exploitation of Salt in 17th-18th Century Moldavia

Claudia Tărnăuceanu.

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Other Format:

Print version: Alexianu, Marius Mirrors of Salt: Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt

ISBN:

1-78491-457-6

OCLC:

1391441141