01665nas a2200205   4500000000100000008004100001260003800042653003000080653002400110653002800134653001700162100001600179700001400195700001500209245010800224856015300332300001200485520091500497020004701412                                       d  bSpringer International Publishing10aIgnigenous salt supplying10aintangible heritage10aNatural brine supplying10aSalt springs1 aM. Alexianu1 aO. Weller1 aR. Brigand00aRomanian salt springs, intangible cultural heritage, archaeological reconstruction: A variable geometry  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85008871467&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-319-23153-2_18&partnerID=40&md5=90cd6951b8975b82ef3eccb7b8b236c0  a231-2403 aThis paper examines the importance of the oldest chronological layer of the intangible heritage concerning the exploitation of salt springs, which is fortuitously still recoverable in Romania at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This layer, which comprises the first half of the twentieth century, has been investigated systematically through ethnological inquiries only since 2007, as part of two projects on the ethnoarchaeology of salt. Solely on the basis of this old layer, it was possible to study the complex relationships established between the salt springs and the various types of settlements supplied with natural brine, with ignigenous salt or even with naturally recrystallized salt. Additionally, the paper uses those elements of the intangible heritage that highlight the economic and symbolic dimensions that complete the purely archaeological approaches of the issue of salt springs.  a9783319231532 (ISBN); 9783319231525 (ISBN)