2500-2000 BC. Connectivity phenomena between the Balkans, Greece, Southern Italy, Eastern Sicily, the Aeolian Islands and Malta
Recent research projects have provided new data to tackle the issue of long- range cultural contacts and movements of small human groups across the Central Mediterranean during the second half of the 3rd millennium BC. This complex phe- nomenon, whose epicentre was probably the Dalmatian culture of Cetina, implies intertwined processes of interactions between various regions.