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Trans-Adriatic contacts and the transition to farming

This contribution discusses the evidence of trans-Adriatic contacts that was recovered from remote Adriatic islands, as well as the origin of extraneous lithic raw materials from those islands and from other eastern Adriatic sites, while drawing on the currently available radiocarbon-dated sequences and paleogeographic reconstructions. Since the Last Glacial Maximum, trans-Adriatic connectivity passed through three major phases that are separated by two key transitional events: the rapid expansion of the Adriatic Sea, and the transition to farming. During the first phase, when the opposite sides of the Adriatic Basin were connected by land across the exposed Adriatic Plain, there is evidence of fairly regular contacts. During the second phase, contacts between the opposing shores of a much expanded Adriatic Sea were minimal or nonexistent. After the arrival of farming, there is abundant and varied evidence of regular trans-Adriatic contact. This suggests that the connectivity of the Adriatic Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene hunter-gatherers was mostly land-based. The onset of full-time maritime connectivity coincided with the arrival of farming.

Adriatic, connectivity, Pleistocene, Holocene, navigation, early farming

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