Field Seasons:
> 2022
> 2023 (Upcoming)
The main purpose of the project is to examine the influence of Greek settlement in the region and, later, integration into the Roman Republic, then Empire, on the local cultures of the ancient Adriatic islands. Evidence shows that the ancient peoples of the Adriatic islands had access to imported Greek and Italian goods and that this region may have been a locus of intense trade as early as the 7th century BCE.
Some of the main research questions of the project seek to understand how the local peoples consumed these imported goods: What other interactions might have occurred between the Liburnians, Greek colonies in the Adriatic, and the neighboring regions? What impact did these relationships have on the social and material culture of the pre-Roman Adriatic? And what did life in Dalmatia look like at the local level during these dynamic periods? The Brač Island Project acts as a case study opening the door to wider investigations of these issues.
The Brač Island Project 