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EUROINVENT 2012
and the second part consists in a bilingual corpus of Greek and
Latin texts (the selection of the Greek and Latin author’s texts
that contain information on different aspects of the carphatiandnistrian
space and their symbolic value of those texts).
X. 5.
Title
Ethnoarchaeology of Salt Springs and Salt Mountains from the
extra-Carpathian zone of Romania
Authors Alexianu Marius-Tiberiu
Institution „Al.I. Cuza” University of Iaşi
Description
This ethnoarchaeological project on salt – a primordial reference
of humanity – represents a world premiere approach from the
methodological perspective and as spatial extension. Starting
from an original Romanian study of 1992, it continues the
researches carried on by a Franco-Romanian team since 2003
and those within a Romanian Idei CNCSIS (2007-2010)
exploratory project. This approach was tested on the eastern Sub-
Carpathian area of Romania, with impressive results. The
extension of the researches to the whole extra-Carpathian area is
justified by the exigencies specific to a saturated model. Unlike
the previous project, the researches take into account – besides
salt springs – salt mountains/cliffs; the correlations between their
exploitations are thus systematically analyzed for the very first
time in the world. The research has as purpose two main axes:
identifying salt springs and salt mountains/cliffs and the adjacent
archaeological vestiges, and ethnological investigations through
spatial analysis. These data modelled and interpreted in all
dimensions, corroborated with the available ancient and
medieval sources, will constitute a solid referential (valorising a
unique situation in Europe) anywhere in the world where there
are archaeological traces of salt exploitation, but not followed by
current non-industrial practices. The researches will underline
the universal invariants, without omitting the idiographic
behaviours.
X. 6.
The researches concerning the biosynthetic capacity of
Title
secondary metabolites depending on the genetic diversity in a
collection of chilli pepper local populations in Western Romania
Authors Lazăr A., Poşta G., Petolescu C., Berar V.
Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary
Institution
Medicine Timisoara
The research project aims the quantitative evaluation of the
Description
biosynthesis capacity of secondary metabolites (capsaicin and
carotenoid compounds) in a total of 20 local populations of chilli
Innovative Researches
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