Agean Hunter Gatherers also traded and travelled between the Agean Islans for Obsidian from Melos
This Trade Network was Expanded in the Neolithic by Agriculturalists and their more Sophisticated Seafaring capabilities
@VVeltkrieger The island hopping mobility of the Mesolithic HGs around the Aegean perhaps partly explains the difficulty in unlocking the exact sequence of events that spreads EEFs across the Aegean after 7k BC. Not only were the multiple EEF waves from different Anatolian regions, there were
@DanDavisWrites Definetly, the presence of Pre-ceramic Neolithic sites existing some good 500 years before the earliest ceramic Neolithic sites doesn't help this
@VVeltkrieger What’s this map from?
@VVeltkrieger If you ever visit Μήλο you'll find obsidian everywhere. When I visited there was a dig going on beside our hotel of a 6000 year old obsidian workshop.