Surse de sare și procesul de neolitizare din SE Transilvaniei

Abstract

Archaeological investigations at Rupea in the summer of 2018 showed that in the vicinity of each spring of salt water, from about 50 m to 1,7 km there is an early Neolithic site, belonging to Starčevo – Criş. Analyzing the ceramic materials from a complex and those discovered on the area of the site we found that they belong to the Starčevo-Criş III phase. Chronological and cultural links suggest that these communities are related to the discoveries of Cristian III in the same cultural phase. Based on ethno-archeological research on salt sources, but also in the sheepfolds, their placement against salt springs and salted lands, archaeologists have established direct links between salt sources and neolithisation processes in the Rupea area. Rupea is at the center of communication paths between Moldova, south-eastern Transylvania and western Transylvania in the middle basin of Mureş and the center of Transylvania (the upper part of Mureş's middle basin).

Ethnic Soups from Rupea Area (Romania) as Resources for Sustainable Local Development

“…In the center of Rupea there is the Ethnography Museum "Gheorghe Cernea", subordinated to the Ethnography Museum of Brasov [49]. On the urban perimeter of Rupea and in the vicinity of the town, recent archaeological research has revealed several traces of old habitation, from the Paleolithic [50], Neolithic [51][52][53], Eneolithic [51,[54][55][56][57][58][59], Bronze Age [51], Iron Age, up to the period of the Dacian kingdom, and the period after the conquest of Dacia by the Romans [60]. These findings could be promoted as points of interest for thematic hikes in the near future.…”