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Continuity and change among the prehistoric populations of the Eastern Adriatic islands: an overview of archaeological evidence

The Eastern Adriatic archipelago came into being at the end of Pleistocene, when the rising sea levels separated the islands from the mainland. Since that time, their population history was marked much more by continuity than by change. Only at one point in time, around 6000 B.C., several lines of evidence suggest arrival of a substantial body of immigrants. That event is associated with the introduction of farming. The next possible influx of immigrants may have happened almost four thousand years later, around or soon after 2500 B.C., although the changes observable in the archaeological record are better explained by indigenous developments such as changes in the social organization of the local communities. By mid-first millennium B.C., the islands were populated by Illyrians who spoke an Indo-European language. It was then that the next confirmed penetration of a foreign population took place, with the establishment of a Greek colonies on Vis and Hvar early in the fourth century B.C. Four centuries later, all islands were already fully integrated into the cosmopolitan Roman Empire, with free movement of people and goods across the Mediterranean and beyond.

prehistory; antiquity; Hvar; island

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