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INPRIMATU
Venice Glass in Alaska
  • In an Inuit settlement investigated in the Brooks Mountains in Alaska (USA), Venetian glass beads were found in the late Middle Ages.
Nagore Irazustabarrena Uranga @irazustabarrena 2021eko otsailaren 24a
(Arg.: M. L. Kunz/American Antiquity)

Being before Columbus and seeing that they arrived in Alaska shortly after their cultivation in Venice, it is clear that from Europe to Alaska they did not cross the Atlantic, but from the Bering Strait. It is well known that on the doorstep of the Modern Age trade relations between Europe and Asia were very structured by the Silk Road.

But these glass samples, along with other recent tests, suggest that exchanges between Asia and America were more frequent than previously thought.