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Abstract:
Researchers have long realized that the Adriatic Sea was a medium of communication rather than a barrier in prehistory. Hemmed in between the Balkans and peninsular Italy, with its head in the Alpine foothills and its foot pointing towards the Aegean, the Adriatic touches different worlds.
Archaeological records frequently show that the coastal zones on both sides of the Adriatic had more in common with each other than with their hinterlands. Whilst the Adriatic is a relatively small and enclosed sea, travelling across its waters still presented serious hazards and took skill and knowledge. This has been addressed by recent work, both above and below the waterline, challenging our timehonoured notions of when, how and why the people living on the Adriatic shores, took to the sea.
This session aims to cover the period from the earliest evidence for navigation to the end of prehistory as signalled by Greek colonization. During this period, the region witnessed several episodes of radical transformation, including a switch from foraging to farming and the emergence of social elites. This session aims to question the role that maritime communication played in these momentous events.
Other themes that we would like to broach in this session include:
· How geography, weather patterns and climatic change influenced the early Adriatic navigators.
· How prehistoric maritime travellers may have viewed the comparative roles of the mainland and the islands.
· What the social, economic and technological underpinnings of maritime travel were, and the knowledge which was involved.· Who was travelling across the Adriatic and why they initially decided to travel across water.
· How distributions of raw materials and pottery styles may inform us about maritime travel and how this changed over time resulting in the cultural diversity and coherence that characterized this region throughout most of prehistory.
· Finally, how the situation in the prehistoric Adriatic compares to other parts of the Mediterranean, and to other inner seas elsewhere.
Participants will offer new insights relevant to some of these questions, augmented by the
results of recent fieldwork and current theoretical developments.
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