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The Earliest Salt Production in the World: An Early Neolithic Exploitation in Poiana Slatinei-Lunca, Romania (Antiquity)

Academic Journal Article

A 2005 Antiquity Project Gallery report by Olivier Weller and Gheorghe Dumitroaia on the Poiana Slatinei salt spring site at Lunca, Romania, presenting Early Neolithic salt production hearths radiocarbon dated to roughly 6050 to 5500 BCE, the earliest known salt exploitation in Europe.

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Publisher
Antiquity Publications Ltd
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https://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/weller306/
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The Earliest Salt Production in the World: An Early Neolithic Exploitation in Poiana Slatinei-Lunca, Romania (Antiquity)
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  • Food Traditions, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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