For Yous Data - Sicilian Amber Inwards Western Europe Pre-Dates Arrival Of Baltic Amber Past Times At To The Lowest Degree 2,000 Years

Amber together with other odd materials such equally jade, obsidian together with stone crystal convey attracted involvement equally raw materials for the industry of decorative items since Late Prehistory and, indeed, amber retains a high value inward present-day jewellery.

Some of the amber objects analyzed inward the introduce report [Credit: Murillo-Barroso et al., 2018]

'Baltic' amber from Scandinavia is oft cited equally a commutation textile circulating inward prehistoric Europe, precisely inward a novel report published inward PLOS ONE researchers convey establish that amber from Sicily was travelling some the Western Mediterranean equally early on equally the fourth Millennium BC - at to the lowest degree 2,000 years earlier the arrival of whatever Baltic amber inward Iberia.

According to Pb writer Dr Mercedes Murillo-Barroso of the Universidad de Granada, "The novel show presented inward this report has allowed the most comprehensive review to engagement on the provision together with commutation of amber inward the Prehistory of Iberia. Thanks to this novel work, nosotros at 1 time convey show of the arrival of Sicilian amber inward Iberia from at to the lowest degree the fourth Millennium BC."

"Interestingly, the showtime amber objects recovered inward Sicily together with identified equally existence made from the local amber at that topographic point (known equally simetite) likewise engagement from the fourth Millennium BC, however, at that topographic point is no other show indicating straight contact betwixt Sicily together with Iberia at this time."

"Instead, what nosotros produce know close are the links betwixt the Iberian Peninsula together with North Africa. It is plausible that Sicilian amber reached Iberia through exchanges amongst North Africa. This amber appears at southern Iberian sites together with its distribution is similar to that of ivory objects, suggesting that both materials reached the Iberian Peninsula next the same or similar channels."

Geological amber samples [Credit: Murillo-Barroso et al., 2018]

Senior writer Professor Marcos Martinón-Torres, of the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge adds, "It is solely from the Late Bronze Age that nosotros meet Baltic amber at a large number of Iberian sites together with it is probable that it arrived via the Mediterranean, rather than through straight merchandise amongst Scandinavia."

"What's peculiar is that this amber appears equally associated amongst iron, silvery together with ceramics pointing to Mediterranean connections. This suggests that amber from the North may convey moved South across Central Europe earlier existence shipped to the West past times Mediterranean sailors, challenging previous suggestions of straight merchandise betwixt Scandinavia together with Iberia."

Murillo-Barroso concludes, "In this study, we've been able to overcome traditional challenges inward attempts at assigning corroded amber to a geological source. These novel analytical techniques tin post away hold out used a reference to set Sicilian amber, fifty-fifty from highly deteriorated archaeological samples."

"There are soundless unresolved issues to hold out investigated inward the hereafter - namely exploring the presence of amber inward North African contexts from the same fourth dimension menstruum together with farther researching the networks involved inward the introduction together with spread of Baltic amber inward Iberia together with the extent to which metals or other Iberian commodities were provided inward return."

Source: University of Cambridge [August 29, 2018]


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