Pantelleria Island was a major obsidian source, creating the Mediterranean's first major trade network at least 10,000 years ago during the Neolithic period. Boats carried obsidian across the region—a sophisticated seafaring culture long before written records. 🚢⛵
Key facts claimed:
- Pantelleria Island was an important source of obsidian
- Obsidian was transported from Pantelleria throughout the Mediterranean
- This created the first major trade network dating to at least 10,000 years ago (not 20,000 years)
- People traveled by boat to collect obsidian rocks
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A long-term perspective on the exploitation of Lipari obsidian in ...sciencedirect.comThis paper discusses the long-term exploitation of the island's raw materials from the sixth to second millennia BC.
Obsidian Studies in the Prehistoric Central Mediterranean...degruyterbrill.comObsidian sourcing studies have been conducted in the central Mediterranean for more than 50 years. Detailed studies have been done on the geological sources ...
[PDF] Characterization Of Obsidian Sources In Pantelleria, Italydigitalcommons.usf.edu... obsidian played in the creation of more complex trade and social networks in the Neolithic. The most that these results can offer a limited ...
(PDF) Obsidians of Pantelleria (Strait of Sicily) - ResearchGateresearchgate.netThis paper provides new petrochemical and paleomagnetic data from obsidian sub-sources on the island of Pantelleria, exploited since the ...
Pantelleria Historypantelleria.comThe fertile volcanic soils covering the island became the main source of wealth of Pantelleria. Along with them obsidian continued to provide the material ...
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