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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910753382603321
• Autore: Alexianu Marius
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : , : Archaeopress, , 2023; ©2023
• ISBN: 1-78491-457-6
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (477 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): CurcăRoxana-Gabriela; WellerOlivier
• Disciplina: 553.6309
• Soggetti: Archaeology; Anthropology; Social sciences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Blas R. Castellón Huerta -- 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 -- Mihaela Asăndulesei -- The Biography of the Romanian Expression a făgădui marea cu sarea (Romania) -- Petronela Savin -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.