L’AMBRA IN ITALIA. LE VIE DI PENETRAZIONE E LA DIFFUSIONE DURANTE LA PROTOSTORIA

From the Early Bronze Age a series of roads which ran along big rivers linked northern Europe with the Mediterranean world and Italy in particular. Following these routes, baltic amber reached Italy from around the beginning of the II millennium BC and spread across the whole Peninsula through inner and shipping roads that connected the upper Adriatic to the central-eastern Mediterranean. Amber trades and production continued during the Iron Age and up to the IV century BC, then the findings decrease only to begin again during roman period.