Abstract
The article considers the question of the sources and production methods of salt in the Balkan countries in prehistory and classical antiquity. In coastal areas, salt lagoons and pans were evidently exploited, as they still are and as the written sources imply.
Inland, especially further north in Romania, other technologies may have been used, though these did not involve the use of briquetage other than in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods. Vassil Nikolov's work at Provadia has provided important information on a major production site, though further experimental work is needed to establish that the abundant pottery found there could have served for the boiling of brine