An April 2026 East-West News Service article tracing the Salzkammergut salt trade from Neolithic settlement (circa 5500 BC) through Hallstatt's Bronze/Iron Age prominence (giving its name to the Hallstatt culture) to Celtic mining at Durrnberg near Hallein around 600 BC. Notes that by 1600 roughly three-quarters of Salzburg's income derived from salt, funding the prince-archbishops' baroque building projects until their rule ended in 1803.
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AuthorBarbara Noe Kennedy
PublisherEast-West News Service
URLhttps://www.eastwestnewsservice.com/secrets-of-austrias-salt-road/
Source Typejournalism
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Reliability Tier2
Tier 2: travel and cultural journalism by a named, experienced travel writer; historically informed but a magazine feature rather than an academic or archaeological primary source. Sources
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