The aegean seen from the north-west. Overcoming old interpretative frameworks in the field of aegean - Balkan relations

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the review of some chronological and cultural aspects that characterize the interpretation of Balkan-Aegean relations at the end of the 3rd millennium BC. By presenting data based on pottery analysis combined to stratigraphy and radiocarbon dating of levels 9-8-7 from Sovjan, a lakeside pile dwelling settlement located in the south-eastern Albania, it will be shown that south-western Balkans have been an active partner in the complex cultural networks that crossed the Peninsula and connected the Aegean to the Carpathian Basin at the end of the Early Bronze Age