The Amber route between Caput Adriae and Emona basin: the ceramic evidence on inner road – and water – communications

Through the modern territory of Slovenia passes important transcontinental traffic routes between east and west or south and north (Figure 1). The south-eastern foothills of the Alps and the northern Adriatic always connected the central Danube Basin and the northern Balkans with Italian Peninsula and the Mediterranean. Prehistoric Amber route, attested in the Argonaut Myths and mentioned by Strabo and other antique authors, connected the emporia of Caput Adriae through Karstic passes and Emona Basin with the Baltic Sea (Buora 1996; Guštin and Gaspari 2005; Horvat and Bavdek 2009; Šašel 1974: 15–16; 1977; Šašel Kos 1990; 2017). The earliest