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Neolithic and Eneolithic of Caput Adriae

The eastern Adriatic coast and the Caput Adriae lie along one of the main routes of the spread of farming into Europe. The area in this study covers Dalmatia, Istria, Karst and Friuli which present varied environmental and geomorphological features. Recent research has disclosed a complex archaeological picture of Neolithic communities well adapted to different local environments. This area is also significant for the understanding of contacts and interactions between the Mediterranean world and the continental regions during the development of the Neolithic period and in the subsequent prehistoric phases. Nevertheless, only Dalmatia offers long relatively detailed pottery sequences suitable for building a reliable cultural and chronological framework of the Neolithic in several phases between 6000 and ca. 4000 BC. Full Neolithic evidence is attested to only occasionally in the Istria and Karst regions, while it is widespread in the western margin of Friulian plain. Eneolithic evidence instead is not yet fully attested ; its recognition rests almost entirely on certain stylistic traits of pottery and the first appearance of copper objects as isolated artefacts. The paper presents an outline of the emergence of Neolithic communities and their economic and social transformations between the sixth and third millennium BC.

Neolithic ; Copper Age ; Adriatic ; early farming ; pottery

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