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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
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      Landscape ArchaeologyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Late Bronze Age archaeologyEarly Bronze Age (Archaeology)
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      Bronze Age Amber TradeAmber RoadAmber TradeBaltic amber
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
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      Mythology And FolkloreAncient HistoryCultural HistoryGenetics
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
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      Analogy (Cognitive Psychology)Analogy (Archaeology)Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age Ireland (Prehistoric Archaeology)
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
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      MythologyArt HistoryCultural HeritageCulture
Dans le cadre de l’exposition « Les matières du temps » présentée au Pavillon de verre du LouvreLens du 1er décembre 2018 au 20 mai 2019, l’archéologie des HautsdeFrance est à l’honneur. Les commissaires ont choisi des découvertes,... more
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Ceramics (Archaeology)AmberBronze Age Amber Trade
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
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Late Bronze Age archaeologyAmberBronze Age Amber Trade
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
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      Ancient Trade & Commerce (Archaeology)Bronze Age Amber TradeAmber TradeVeneto
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
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)ArchaeometryLate Bronze Age archaeologyCopper extraction and production
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
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyMediterranean prehistoryBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age Archaeology
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Late Bronze Age archaeologyAmberBronze Age Amber Trade
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
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      Late Bronze Age archaeologyAmarna StudiesAmberAegean Late Bronze Age
"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
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      Early Bronze Age (Archaeology)AmberBronze Age Amber TradeAunjetitz Kultur
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      Late Bronze Age archaeologyGlass BeadsArchaeological AmberBronze Age Amber Trade
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
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Early Bronze Age (Archaeology)AmberEarly Bronze Age
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
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      HistoryAncient HistoryEuropean HistoryArchaeology
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
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyMaterial Culture StudiesAnatolian ArchaeologyAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)
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      Human DynamicsAmberBronze Age Amber TradePrehistoric amber
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
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age Archaeology
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
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)AmberBronze Age Amber Trade
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age Archaeology
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyPottery (Archaeology)Middle Bronze AgePrehistory
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
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyBalkan StudiesBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)
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
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyMobility/MobilitiesLandscape ArchaeologyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)
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
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      AmberBronze Age Amber TradePrehistoric amber
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      Glass (Archaeology)Bronze Age Amber TradePrehistoric Glass
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
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      ArchaeologyLate Bronze Age archaeologyAmberAegean Late Bronze Age
This communication aims to present the information concerning the identification of furniture and know-how originally from eastern Mediterranean in Corsica through Middle Bronze Age (1600-1200 b.C.) and Late Bronze Age (1200-800 b.C.). In... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyIsland StudiesCypriot Archaeology
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
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      Globalisation and cultural changeGlocalizationBronze Age (Archaeology)Cultural change
If the social meaning of objects is culturally attri- buted, and thus depends on a given specific con- text; if it has a dynamic and contingent nature and it is not a property inherent to materiality in itself; if the value of objects... more
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      ArchaeologyIberian StudiesMediterranean StudiesIberian Prehistory (Archaeology)
This paper reassess the evidence for the relationships between Italy/Europe and Mycenaean Kos, based on metal and amber finds. The evidence demonstrates that Kos played a prominent role in forming contacts between the Dodecanese and... more
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      Aegean Prehistory (Archaeology)Bronze Age Amber TradeSea PeoplesMycenaean palatial system
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
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      ArchaeologyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age ArchaeologyMycenaean era archaeology
The site of Frattesina (Rovigo), in southern Veneto participated in a territorial system extending from Villamarzana (S-E), to Campestrin di Grignano Polesine (E), from the Recent Bronze Age to the initial Iron Age (c. XIII- IX century... more
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Late Bronze Age archaeologyBronze Age Amber TradeFrattesina
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
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      Bronze Age Amber TradeEuropean Copper and Bronze Age – Archaeometallurgy – Prehistoric Metalworking in Social Context – Settlement Archaeology – Application of Geophysical Methods in Archaeology – Neolithic – Theory / Cultural Anthropology – Material Culture StudiesHolocene ecology and environmental change
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age Archaeology
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
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)ArchaeometryLate Bronze Age archaeologyArchaeometallurgy
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.
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Early Bronze Age (Archaeology)Prehistory
""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
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      Early Bronze Age (Archaeology)Bronze Age Amber TradeAmber RoadAunjetitz Kultur
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyMetallurgyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)AmberArcheologia Siciliana
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyMediterranean prehistoryBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Late Bronze Age archaeologyEarly Bronze Age (Archaeology)Middle Bronze Age
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
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      Aegean Prehistory (Archaeology)Mycenaean ArchaeologyBronze Age Amber Trade
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyMediterranean prehistoryLate Bronze Age archaeologyBalkan prehistory
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      AmberFaienceBronze Age Amber TradePrehistoric Glass
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologySocial Network Analysis (SNA)ArchaeometallurgyStone axes (Archaeology)
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
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      ReligionHistoryAncient HistoryEconomic History
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
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Balkan archaeologyBalkan prehistoryAegean Archaeology
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
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      ArchaeologyAnthropology of MobilityRaman SpectroscopyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)
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
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      Amber in PraehistoryBronze Age Amber TradeGlass Beads and Amber in Bronze AgePrehistoric Trade and Exchange