Table of contents
Section 1 - The Neolithic
Protohistoric Spondylus gaederopus L. shell: some considerations on the earliest European long-distance exchanges related to shamanism
Michel Louis Séfériadès
Insignia of exotica - skeuomorphs of Mediterranean shells in Chalcolithic south Eastern Europe
Dragos Gheorghiu
Salt production and use in prehistory: toward a complex systems view
Tomaso di Fraia
Obsidian Finds on the Fringes of the Central Mediterranean: Exotic or Eccentric Exchange?
Robert H. Tykot
Mineral Mining and Mineral Trade in Mountainous Melanesia and the Mineral zone of Motten: Parallels between prehistoric central Europe and archaic societies in contemporary New Guinea
Heinrich C. Dosedla and Alf Krauliz
Section 2 - Amber
Amber in antiquity
Nuccia Negroni Catacchio
Neolithic amber processing and exchange on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea
Ilze Loze
L'ambra e i principi guerrieri di età orientalizzante in Italia (Amber and the warrior princes of the Orientalising period in Italy)
Nuccia Negroni Catacchio
Section 3 - The East Mediterranean and the Aegean Bronze Age
Exotic materials and objects sent to - and from? - the Bronze Age Aegean
Some recent work and some observations
Helen Hughes-Brock
Glass in the Aegean Bronze Age - Value, Meaning and Status
Caroline Jackson and Emma Wager
Low-value manufactured exotics in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages
Elon Heymans and Gert Jan Van Wijngaarden
Exotica in early Mycenaean burials as evidence for the self-representation of the elite
Helène Whittaker von Hofsten
Recognizing niello: three Aegean daggers
Nancy R. Thomas
Section 4 - Westward Ho! the ships
Recognising exotica in the archaeological record: the case of the Mycenaean exchange network
Andrea Vianello
Before the stream: the social and economic role of exotica in the central Mediterranean. The case of ivory items from Roca
Riccardo Guglielmino, Francesco Iacono and Michela Rugge
Section 5 - Broadening perspectives
Bird-shaped prows of boats, Sea Peoples and the Pelasgians
Jan Bouzek
Prestige swords of the Bronze Age
Anthony Harding