Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.15291/archeo.1182

Navigare Necesse Est, Vivere Non Est Necesse: reflections on the prehistoric seafaring in the Mediterranean and Adriatic

Marcel Burić orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-3611 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Tihomila Težak Gregl ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

In the past fifteen years we have substantially improved our knowledge of the seafaring expeditions in the Mediterranean, based either on the indirect evidence of the navigation or on what we know about the earliest such ventures. This paper presents an overview of what is known about the earliest navigation in the Mediterranean and considers the possible origins of the first such ventures in the Adriatic as a specific part of the Mediterranean. It focuses on the problem of the navigation between the Italic and Croatian coasts, tackling the possibility of such maritime expeditions based on the distribution of the obsidian from the Aeolian Islands. It also ponders on the practical aspects of the use of sailing vessels in the Late Neolithic.

Keywords

seafaring; prehistory; Mediterranean; Adriatic; vessel; Neolithic; trade; obsidian; sail

Hrčak ID:

188404

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/188404

Publication date:

18.10.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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