Bronze Age Amber Trade
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Doposud se lokalizovaly možné trasy jantarových stezek hlavně na základě četnosti nálezů jantarové suroviny a šperků. V Německu se podařilo objevit sídliště z doby bronzové v místě nazývaném podle jantaru – Bernstorf 1. Dá se tenhle... more
Uno studio approfondito su Reitia, la somma dea dei Veneti, scoprendo le analogie con le dee solari del Nord-Europa. Attraverso mito e archeologia nuove concezioni ampliano gli orizzonti dell'antropologia dei Veneti antichi. Nove pagine... more
Considerable quantities of Nordic/Baltic amber occur in Irish later Bronze Age deposits. This exotic material reached Ireland through exchange networks that may have stretched all the way to the coasts of Denmark. This paper reviews some... more
Baltic amber’s popularity and its role in various cultures, from the prehistoric to the contemporary, is a very broad and complex subject. Therefore in this text I present an overview of selected cultural links and ways of using amber in... more
The Late Bronze Age amber working site of Campestrin di Grignano Polesine (north-eastern Italy) - The settlement of Campestrin Grignano Polesine is located approximately 50 km from the North-western Adriatic coast and 10 km East from... more
FINAL 2023 update to replace in around 360 pages the existing excessively long "The Veneti Language..." which is close to 1000 pages and some say with too many side topics and repetition and hard to read. It continues to document my... more
Lead Isotopes Analysis (LIA) is a well-established technique, that is used to determine the origin of copper in an artefact under investigation (i.e. “provenancing”), through lead isotopes ratios. By comparing the ratios of the lead... more
The present book which has just made its way to you did so for a reason. It is because books, just like any other objects, have their own soul and their own history that have to be respected, and they will stay only with such persons who... more
Baltic amber reached the Mycenaean and Levantine kings by means of a prestige circuit of royal gift-exchanges extending across the Mediterranean area. Amber was valued for its magical properties, which were believed to guarantee victory,... more
"Approximately 4ooo amber items from the Bohemian Únětice Culture are known from a total of 1o7 sites: 87 burial grounds (3o4 graves), seven deposits, seven settlements and six undetermined sites. The amber comes from approximately... more
About 4000 amber artefacts from the Bohemian Aunjetitz culture are known from a total of 112 sites, mainly burial grounds (90 sites/312 graves). Nearly all of the finds can be dated to the classical Aunjetitz culture (ca. 2000–1750 B.C.).... more
Above: elegant vine krater in bronze and silver from Macedonia. From the Shelby White and Leon Levy private collection in NewYork, handed over to Grease on 1 August 2008. This krater is one of the best examples of Macedonian craftsmanship... more
Bursztyn i karneol: dwie różne kariery w epoce brązu strefy egejskiej Properties Amber is fossil resin. "Fresh" amber is shiny and usually translucent with some impurities, however, opaque variations are also known. 1 The colour includes... more
This paper represents an introduction to the issues relating to the presence of amber in Middle Bronze Age on the territory of present-day Hungary. The first half of the second millennium BC, the Carpathian Basin saw the emergence of a... more
The focus of this report and catalogue is the amber discovered at Bernstorf, Freising district between 1997 and 2005. 56 pieces of amber were recovered over a period of nine years. Of these, 50 were studied by the author in October 2014... more
and Phosphoros: how research on Aegean-Eastern interactions can inform studies of the West (presented at the Conference as a poster) IV. BALKANS-AEGEAN Shafi GASHI Relations between the Mycenaean world and Kosovo, as reflected in imported... more
Archaeological researches occurred in the Florentine area since many years show that in this part of Tuscany several cultural stimuli drawn from the northern areas beyond the Apennines - especially the eastern Po plain - and from the... more
European geological ambers of five different localities and types, and Italian geological ambers from seven different deposits have been studied with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and diffuse-reflectance infrared Fourier... more
Baltic amber reached the Mycenaean and Levantine kings by means of a prestige circuit of royal gift-exchanges extending across the Mediterranean area. Amber was valued for its magical properties, which were believed to guarantee victory,... more
The second millennium BCE is a time in human history when the archaeological record, both in terms of travelled finds and ideas, reflects a networking of unprecedented intensity and velocity. This phenomenon of heightened networking and... more
This paper will synthesize some of the multifaceted arguments about Bronze Age amber finds and trade networks connecting the Baltic and Aegean Sea regions. Bronze Age trade networks were far more complex than previously thought, as recent... more
Thy forms a maritime nodal point for North Sea travels; via the calm waters of the Limfjord to the east, Thy connects with Kattegat and the west coast of Sweden. The amber-rich North Sea coast to the west would have been the starting... more
- by Kristian Kristiansen
- Bronze Age Amber Trade, European Copper and Bronze Age – Archaeometallurgy – Prehistoric Metalworking in Social Context – Settlement Archaeology – Application of Geophysical Methods in Archaeology – Neolithic – Theory / Cultural Anthropology – Material Culture Studies, Holocene ecology and environmental change
Lead Isotopes Analysis (LIA) is a well-established technique, that is used to determine the origin of copper in an artefact under investigation (i.e. “provenancing”), through lead isotopes ratios. By comparing the ratios of the lead... more
H. Meller/H. Breuer, Tränen der Götter. In: H. Meller (Hrsg.), Der geschmiedete Himmel. Die weite Welt im Herzen Europas vor 3600 Jahren. Begleitband zur Sonderausstellung (Halle [Saale] 2004) 104–107.
""Amber in Czech Únětice (Aunjetitz) culture – on the origin of the Amber Route. Approximately 4,000 amber artefacts from a total of 106 sites in Bohemia are known from the Early Bronze Age. The majority of these sites are burial grounds... more
Στις αρχές του 20ου αιώνα μία γερμανική αρχαιολογική ομάδα με επικεφαλής τον W. Dörpfeld και τον K. Müller περιηγήθηκε την Τριφυλία 2 . Επεσήμανε, ανέσκαψε και αποτύπωσε πολλές αρχαιολογικές θέσεις στην περιοχή βορείως του ποταμού της... more
This paper presents a case of funerary re-utilisation of the Dolmen de Palacio III megalithic monument (Almadén de la Plata, Sevilla) by the Early Iron Age communities of the Sierra Norte de Sevilla region. This case is first discussed as... more
The exchanges and relations established during the Late Bronze Age between the territory of the present day Albania and the Aegean have been treated by various authors, focusing mainly on the pottery, but also on the metal objects such as... more
The study of prestige materials is one of the best approaches to obtain information on different aspects of a society, such as internal complexity or, due to the exoticism of many materials, the external relations and mobility of groups.... more
Presented paper deals with long-discussed issue of amber route in the circum-Adriatic zone during the Bronze Age, specifically with traditionally assumed character of this phenomenon and theoretical basis for such notion. First part of... more