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The Greeks in Central Dalmatia

The data presented here offer a solid basis for a modifying the present state of knowledge about the eastern coast of the Adriatic during the Iron Age. It is now more clear that the local native communities played a greater role in shaping the history of central Dalmatia, and that the situation is more complex than had previously been thought. We can now be certain that on Korčula, Brač, and Šolta there were no Greek colonies, and that only some forms of exchange existed with the Greeks. It is also evident that Pharos had different destiny the Issa. While Issa was flourishing throughout the Hellenistic period, Pharos seems to have lived an autarchic life in the 3rd-1st centuries B.C. It is also significant that virtually no imported material is found on the island of Hvar outside the Stari Grad plain and a few strategic points, and that the rural population on the island in the Iron Age would argue for a deep-seated conservatism which changed only in 2nd/3rd centuries A.D. The discoveries at Pharos, Talež on Vis, and on Palagruža will force us to review early Greek activity in Dalmatia. The large data base which AIP is forming will offer reliable data concerning the human movements occurring in central Adriatic in later prehistory, and will shed more light on how local communities were organised and reacted to the arrival of strangers, whether Greeks, Messapians, or others.

Greek colonisation; Central Dalmatia; Adriatic; Pharos; Issa; Heraclea; Korkyra Melaina; archaeology; pottery research

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