A Connecting Sea Maritime Interaction in Adriatic Prehistory [Paperback]

Papers stemming from a session at the EAA conference held in Zadar in September 2007. Contents: 1) The Relationship Between the Middle Palaeolithic Sites in the Zadar Hinterland and the Zadar Islands 1 (Dario Vujevic); 2) The Beginnings of Trans-Adriatic Navigation: A View from Vela Spila Cave (Korcula Island) 13 (Dinko Radic); 3) Sources of Chert in Middle Dalmatia: Supplying Raw Material to Prehistoric Lithic Industries (Zlatko Perhoc); 4) Prehistoric Cultural Connections in Northeastern Adriatic Regions Identified by Archaeometric Analyses of Stone Axes (Federico Bernardini, Emanuela Montagnari Kokelj and Anton Veluscek); 5) The First Specialised Potters of the Adriatic Region: The Makers of Neolithic Figulina Ware (Michela Spataro); 6) Adriatic Offshore Islands and Long-Distance Interaction in Prehistory (Stao Forenbaher); 7) Seafarers and Land-Travellers in the Bronze Age of the Northern Adriatic (Elisabetta Borgna and Paola C??ssola Guida); 8) Albanian Coastal Settlement from Prehistory to the Iron Age (Ols Lafe and Michael L. Galaty); 9) An Overview of Prehistoric and Early Historic Settlement, Topography, and Maritime Connections on Lastovo Island, Croatia (Philippe Della Casa, Bryon Bass, Tea Katunaric, Branko Kirigin and Dinko Radic); 10) Palagruza - The Island of Diomedes - and Notes on Ancient Greek Navigation in the Adriatic (Branko Kirigin, Alan Johnston, Marko Vucetic and Zvonimir Lusic).The topics covered in this volume of papers discuss the period from the Middle Palaeolithic to the end of prehistory as signalled by Greek colonisation.