Caliniuc Ș., Asăndulesei M., Curcă R.-G., Alexianu M.-T. (Eds.) First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt (20-24 August 2015, Iasi, Romania)

Book of Abstracts. — Iași, Romania: “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iași, 2015. — 146 p. — ISBN: 978-606-714-221-1.First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt took place in the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Iași, Romania) on August 20-24, 2015. The initiators of the Congress were well-known Romanian researchers Marius Tiberiu Alexianu and Roxana-Gabriela Curcă. The congress was organised within the framework of project "The ethno-archaeology of the salt springs and salt mountains from the extra-Carpathian areas of Romania" financially supported by the Romanian National Council of Scientific Research.
Five continents and 25 countries (Romania, USA, France, Japan, Ukraine, Mexico, Mongolia, India, Italy, Australia, Cameroon, Nigeria, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany, Poland, Austria, Ireland, Moldova, Israel, Côte d’Ivoire, China, Great Britain, Argentina, Canada) were represented in the Congress.
“Programme and Abstracts”, edited by Ștefan Caliniuc, Mihaela Asăndulesei, Roxana-Gabriela Curcă and Marius-Tiberiu Alexianu, was published before the beginning of the Congress. There were five thematic panels: "Anthropology and Archaeology", "History", "Halotherapy", "Heritage", "Literary and Linguistic Approaches".