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This paper builds upon traditional investigations of maritime activities, particularly seafaring itself, to study the social relationships between people and the sea as well as the technology, necessary knowledge and skills that are implicated. The research is based upon evidence of seafaring drawn from the circulation of obsidian from the island of Lipari around the central Mediterranean throughout the Neolithic c.6500-3500 BC. It focuses upon journeys across the Adriatic, identifying the importance of travel in the creation of social alliance and identity, shedding light upon relationships and practices that are generally invisible without proper consideration of maritime activity. The implications of ongoing maritime activity in the region reflect upon Neolithic activities and temporalities which are outside the sphere of settlement specific landscapes, hitherto the sole focus of the majority of Italian Neolithic research.

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The Big Question T his book is designed to provide the best partial answer to an apparently clear-cut and uncomplicated question: "Why do some prehistoric sites, settlements, landscapes, and artifacts survive on the sea floor, after inundation by postglacial sea-level rise, when many others are destroyed or scattered by waves and currents?" There are over 2600 known submerged prehistoric sites in European seas (Jöns et al. 2016). At the glacial maximum when sea level was at its lowest, at about -130 m, an additional increment of land became available on the European continental shelf estimated at about 40% of the present-day European land area, amounting to an estimated 4 million km 2 . The question of what determines the survival or destruction

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