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Fine wares as indicators of cultural contacts in the Kvarner area (north-eastern Adriatic) between the 4th and 1st c. BC

The Kvarner gulf, the northernmost inlet of the eastern Adriatic, served from the earliest times, thanks to its favourable natural features, as a crossroad of paths, exchange routes and social communications. Continually contacting between Dalmatia, Istria and the western Adriatic, it was as a link between the coast and the north-eastern Adriatic hinterland. From the mid-20th c. finds of Hellenistic, and earlier Daunian and Greek pottery from the Kvarner started to appear in publications, while in the early 2000s overviews of their occurrences have been published. On the other hand, Roman Republican pottery was until recently virtually unknown. New data has now been gather through recent research (excavation and field surveys), indentifying new ware types and sites, while for those known, a more substantial occurrence has been established. Such a picture, though updated, it is still preliminary, but it does seem to point to a capillary distribution of imported wares on different types of sites - from island's major ports and smaller settlements to hill forts on the coast and in its hinterland, occurring also within necropolises. This allows us to evaluate these wares within a broader social context and to suggest a more intense indirect, but possibly also direct, exchange with the areas of the Adriatic's Greek colonies and southern Liburnia, northern Adriatic emporia and the neighbouring Histrian territories. The presence of these finds is also indicative of communications within the communities of the region, in particular on a coast-to-hinterland bases, testifying of their involvement within a wider Adriatic, and indirectly Mediterranean, cultural network.

Fine wares ; Kvarener ;

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