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Trade and Exchange in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Croatia

This paper offers an outline of the current state of research on trade during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in Croatia. The archaeological evidence suggests that significant changes in extent of trade networks, in intensity, and in social context of trade, occurred during this period. During the Late Bronze Age, external trade can be unequivocally demonstrated only for bronze and amber. Import of metal must have been an important segment of the economy, the details of which, however, remain obscure. As opposed to that, amber trade was apparently a sporadic undertaking, probably a čate by-product of the central Mediterranean trading network. There are no indications of trade with the Aegean. Exchange on a local level is suggested by evidence of local production of everyday bronze implements. Substantial increase in trade during the Early Iron Age is contemporary with further centralization of authority and incorporation of the coastal area into Mediterranean trading networks.

Archaeology, Trade, Exchange, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Croatia

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