Baltic amber in Hispania during late antiquity. Contacts, networks and exchange Vallejo Casas, Elena Ripoll, Gisela Sánchez Romero, Margarita Murillo Barroso, María de las Mercedes This paper has been supported by a University Teacher Training contract (FPU 2018) awarded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, by the Palarq Foundation, in the grants awarded in 2022 for the application of analytical techniques on archaeo-palaeontological goods, the R&D Project ‘Social and Exchange Networks in the Argaric Society’ (PID2022-137494NB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), and the Project EQC2018-004880-P funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Authors are also grateful for the support of the Excellence Unit ‘Archaeometrical Studies: Inside the artefacts & ecofacts’ of the University of Granada funded by the PAIDI 2020. Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Granada / CBUA. Amber is a material of great social value that has been identified at various archaeological sites on the Iberian peninsula dating to Late Antiquity. The objects, mostly necklace beads, have been discussed to date with limited results in relation to a small number of studies. This article presents the characterization by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) of 52 amber beads from four Late Antique necropolises in the province of Granada (south-eastern Iberian peninsula): Cortijo del Chopo (Colomera), El Castillón (Montefrío), Marugán (Atarfe) and Fuente Santa (Loja). The results obtained demonstrate the Baltic origin of the amber at these sites and advance our knowledge of this type of product in Hispanic Late Antique funerary contexts. 2024-04-01T11:56:14Z 2024-04-01T11:56:14Z 2024-03-24 journal article Vallejo-Casas E., Ripoll G., Sánchez Romero M., and Murillo-Barroso M. (2024). Baltic amber in Hispania during late antiquity. Contacts, networks and exchange. Oxford Journal of Archaeology. 1468-0092 0262-5253 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/90281 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ open access Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional Wiley