The Earliest Baltic Amber in Western Europe-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Earliest Baltic Amber in Western Europe

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Author:

Murillo-Barroso Mercedes¹,Cólliga Araceli Martín²,Martinon-Torres Marcos³

Affiliation:

1. University of Granada

2. Generalitat de Catalunya

3. University of Cambridge

Abstract

Abstract The expansion of Baltic amber through Europe has traditionally been associated to the spread of the Bell Beaker culture during the 3rd millennium BC. In Iberia, this phenomenon is particularly noticeable in the southern half. Here we present an amber bead recovered in a Late Neolithic funerary cave (3634 − 3363 2σ cal BC) from northeastern Iberia where more than 12 individuals had been buried. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) results of four samples revealed their complete resemblance with Baltic succinite reference spectra. Despite being a single bead, this finding provides the earliest evidence of the arrival of Baltic amber to the Mediterranean and Western Europe, before the Bell Beaker phenomenon and more than a millennium earlier than traditionally thought.

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Research Square Platform LLC

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