Cercetările arheologice din 1978, de la Preoteşti — „Haltă" (județul Suceava)

Neo-Eneolithic settlement pattern and salt exploitation in Romanian Moldavia

“…Between 1950 and 2000, several researchers forwarded the hypothesis that salt resources promoted stability and the development of late prehistoric communities in the Carpathians (Nandriș 1987;Harding, Kavruc 2013;Lazarovici, Lazarovici 2015), particularly in Moldavia where salt springs are plentiful and accessible (Șandru 1952;Ellis 1984;Monah 1991;Ursulescu 1995). In the foothills of the Eastern Carpathians, excavation of the earliest salt exploitation sites (Ursulescu 1977;Dumitroaia 1987;Munteanu et al 2007;Nicola et al 2007;Weller, Dumitroaia 2005;Weller et al 2015) led on to use of GIS-based spatial analysis, initially focusing on central Moldavia (Weller et al 2011;Brigand, Weller 2013) and then on the region as a whole .…”