First Page
65
ISSN
0843-5499
Last Page
76
Abstract
In Late Neolithic Europe, amber beads and pendants were initially mainly made in the coastal zone of the Baltic Sea, due to the presence of amber washed up by the Litorina Sea. There were four principal localized zones of Neolithic amber artifacts in this region: the eastern Baltic, the mouth of the Vistula River, Jutland and Skone, and Fennoscandinavia. The British Isles are regarded as a fifth zone. As the popular-scientific literature has so far provided scant information on the amber-working zone of the eastern Baltic, this article summarizes the findings revealed by extensive archaeological research, particularly during the past forty years.
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Repository Citation
Loze, Ilze Biruta
(2002).
"Late Neolithic Amber Beads and Pendants from the Lake Lubāns Wetlands, Latvia."
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
14: 65-76. Available at:
https://surface.syr.edu/beads/vol14/iss1/8
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