Project manager Marius Alexianu has been selected as member of the the International Advisory Board of the Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology published by Springer.
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Marius-Tiberiu Alexianu the main author of the first ethnoarchaeological study in Romania dedicated to the ethnoarchaeology of salt springs in Moldavia (‘The Exploitation of the Salt-Water Sources in Moldavia: an Ethno-Archaeological Approach’), Thraco-Dacica 13, 1992, p. 159-167, cited in the special works issued abroad. The methodology proposed by the ethnoarchaeological study was extended and applied to other areas of Romania and Turkey. M. Alexianu had published a monography and numerous papers regarding the ethnoarchaeology of salt springs. The most recent one is a chapter in a volume published in Springer Publishing House (Saturated model. A first application in world and Romanian ethno-archaeology, in A. Marciniak, N. Yalman (Eds.), Contesting Ethnoarchaeologies, 2013). He is also the director of two research projects The salt springs of Moldavia : the ethnoarchaeology of a polyvalent natural resource, 2007-2010 (http://ethnosal.uaic.ro/) and The ethno-archaeology of the salt springs and salt mountains from the extra-Carpathian areas of Romania, 2011-2014 (http://ethnosalro.uaic.ro/). He has participated at many prestigious international conferences as organizer and key-speaker.