Foreword - Marius Alexianu ; Theoretical Approaches ; Salt: Anthropology of a Quasi Amethodic Topic. Some Thoughts - Marius Alexianu ; The ''Sapientia'' of Salt - Michele Zuppi, Paolo Zuppi, Elisabetta Rossi ; 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 Fíguls, Kerstin Kowarik, Hans Reschreiter ; Considerations on Salt Exploitation in Bukovina, from Prehistory to Modern Times - Mugur Andronic, Bogdan P. Niculica ; Unique Cucuteni Artefacts Used in the Salt Recrystallization Process - Constantin Preoteasa ; The Exploitation and Control of Salt Sources from the Early Neolithic to Late Antiquity. Case study: Oglinzi - Bai area (Neam County, Romania) - Vasile Diaconu, Gheorghe Dumitroaia (+) ; A Tiny Story About Salt, Herding and Landscape in Chalcolithic and Late Bronze Age Eastern Romania - Neculai Bolohan, Luminia Bejenaru ; 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 - Elisa Guerra-Doce, Francisco Javier Abarquero-Moras, Germán Delibes-de Castro ; 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 - Dan tefan, Bogdan Ciuperca ; Geophysical Prospections in the Area of the Salt Mine at S'npaul - 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 Fíguls, Olivier Weller, Thomas Xaver Schuhmacher, Mireia Martínez, Raül Segarra, Rosa M. Lanaspa, Marc Cots, Aitor Henestrosa ; 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 - Mihai-Cristian Amariutei, Ludmila Bacumenco-Pîrnau, Luminia Bejenaru ; 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 Iatcu ; 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 - Franck Derrien, Coralie Gradel ; 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 ; Salt in the Traditions of the Romanians.

Notes for the Intangible Heritage in D'mbovia County - Ana Ilie ; Traditional Use of Natural Brine. Ethnoarchaeological Research in the Subcarpathian Area of Romania - Felix-Adrian Tencariu, Andrei Asandulesei, Marius Alexianu ; Salt Symbolism in the Work of Elena Niculia-Voronca - Mihaela Asandulesei ; 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- - Adrian Poruciuc, Norbert Poruciuc ; 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 '' Slatina '' and '' Slatioara '' in Eastern Romania - Mihaela Asandulesei ; The Biography of the Romanian Expression a fagadui 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) - Roxana-Gabriela Curca, Alin Mihu-Pintilie ; Salt in Ancient Opsartytikón Literature - Mihaela Paraschiv ; Latin Testimonies on the Exploitation of Salt in 17th-18th Century Moldavia - Claudia Tarnauceanu.