
Researchers identify the oldest pieces of Baltic amber found on the Iberian Peninsula: imports began over 5,000 years ago
Baltic amber is a luxury material used in jewellery and handicrafts all over the world. Researchers from the Universities of Granada (UGR) and Cambridge, as well as the Government of Catalonia, have shown that Baltic amber arrived on the Iberian Peninsula at least in the 4th millennium BC, more than a millennium earlier than previously thought