This paper reviews the evidence for maritime connections between Malta and Sicily in the
second millennium BC and considers their social implications. Since much of what has been …

Sažetak This contribution discusses the evidence of trans-Adriatic contacts that was
recovered from remote Adriatic islands, as well as the origin of extraneous lithic raw …

This article presents the results of a combined petrographic and geochemical
characterization study of raw materials from the early prehistoric chert source of Stélida, on …

This study explores obsidian consumption during the Early/Middle Neolithic Stentinello
period (ca. 5600–4000 cal BC) on the Italian island of Sicily through the analysis of 622 …

The production and trade in copper and bronze was one of the major features of the
complex societies in the Near East and Mediterranean during the third to first millennia BC …

Abstract The Aeolian island of Lipari, just north of eastern Sicily, was a major geological
source of high quality obsidian that was volcanically formed in the Late Mesolithic, followed …

This study focuses on the Neolithic, particularly on the emergence and development of the
Diana Culture in the Aeolian Islands. Since the 1950s, the archaeological excavations …

This study presents an overview of obsidian use from archaeological sites located on the
island of Cyprus and spanning the period broadly defined as the Aceramic Neolithic (ca …

Abstract In the Late Neolithic necropolis of Galliano (Taranto, Southern Italy) 52 samples of
obsidian artefacts were found. Their characterization by absolutely non-destructive …

Analyzing social change from a historical perspective is one of the longest established
strategies of sociological comparison. Numerous classic sociologists have examined cross …