Underwater archaeologists from the University of Zagreb have uncovered a 7000,<>-year-old settlement and a road leading to it off the west coast of the Croatian Adriatic island of Korčula. The researchers assign the sunken settlements to the Neolithic Danilo-Hvar culture, which is named after sites near the Croatian coastal town of Šibenik and on the island of Hvar.
Their contacts reached as far as present-day Hungary, where the people sold prickly oysters and obdsidian stones, apparently from Italy.