The distribution of ribbed bracelets in the Balkansdates since their first appearance in Central Europe. They have a long currencyhere, whereas a variant with rolled ends persists in the Dalmatian coast until the endof LBA75. However, the bracelets of a high sheet of bronze and of simple parallelterminals like our examples, in the necropoleis of Glasinac plateau, in Bosnia, aremore characteristic for MBA and the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, or untilphase IIIa (up to the 13th century B.C.)76. Based on the development of this typein the north, it seems plausible to date the ribbed bracelets from northeast Albaniain the LBA, rather than to the EIA as it has been proposed. In grave 2 of tumulus4 of Kënetë, the pair of ribbed bracelets is associated by a small kantharos withchanneled decoration (otherwise called kanellure decoration) consisting of widelyspaced vertical or slightly oblique grooves or ribbings, which can be considered asone of the earliest appearances of this type of decoration in LBA Albania. In theLofkënd tumulus one one-handle vessel, with a similar round base and with thesame type of widely spaced grooves was dated to the 12-11th centuries B.C.77 Ataround the same dates, this decoration appears in central and southeast Albania78.Considering also the northern origin proposed for this type of decoration in LBAAlbania, the dating of our pair of ribbed bracelets around the last phase of theirdevelopment in the Glasinac plateau, or in the 13th century, should not be excluded.
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