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Adriatic sailors and stone knappers: Palagruža in the 3rd millennium BC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Timothy Kaiser  and
Stašo Forenbaher
Timothy Kaiser
Affiliation:
Department of Western Art and Culture, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto ONT M5S 2C6, Canada, tim.kaiser@utoronto.ca
Stašo Forenbaher
Affiliation:
Institut za Antropologiju, Ilica 1, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia, staso.forenbaher@zg.tel.hr
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Abstract

Small islands offer archaeologists interesting and manageable subjects for survey and excavation. The recent work on Adriatic islands reported here examines occupation during the 3rd millennium BC, showing how sailors exploited islands for trade, control and raw materials.

Keywords

AdriaticCopper—Bronze AgelithicsCetina culturesurveyPalagružamariners
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Papers
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Antiquity , Volume 73 , Issue 280 , June 1999 , pp. 313 - 324
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1999

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