El pomo de ámbar de la Estructura 10.042-10.049 del Sector PP4-Montelirio del asentamiento de Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla)

The use of amber has been archaeologically documented in the Iberian Peninsula since Upper Paleolithic (Aguirre Ruiz de Gopegui, 1998-2000; Alvarez et al., 2005; Penalver et al., 2007; etc.) and has been a frequent subject of study in research on trade and long distance exchange. However, these approaches, especially in Iberia, usually lack of analytical studies on amber composition and provenance. After Siret’s first attempt on determine amber provenance based on the amount of succinic acid in 1913, we do not have analytical studies until a century later, on the first years of the 21st century. And even today, analytical studies on amber are still scarce. In this paper we present an especially singular amber object recovered at the PP4-Montelirio excavations whose analysis by Fourier Transformed Infra-Red spectroscopy (now on FTIR) revealed a Sicilian origin. This constitutes another evidence of the implications of Valencina de la Concepcion on Mediterranean longdistance exchange during the Copper Age.