The early Neolithic represents the period after the Mesolithic, or later Stone Age. In the early Neolithic period, the process of neolithization begins, the general feature of which is the adaptation to a new way of life, i.e. a planned diet that includes the domestication of animals and the cultivation of plants, however, the economy of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and the production of ceramic dishes are preserved. The representative of the early Neolithic of the eastern coast of the Adriatic represents the impresso culture, which has its three stages of development: I Crvena Stijena, II Smilčić and III Gudnja because of Cardium shells which are impressed into pottery. Aegean and Ionian influences on Corfu in Albania continued their expansion of the neolithization of the eastern coast of the Adriatic until Caput Adriae, which lasted approximately for a period of about 500 years (6200-5750 BC). Based on Mesolithic traditions, contacts and exchange of goods and migration led to the "Neolithic revolution", i.e. a completely new and somewhat easier survival of human communities due to planned nutrition. In addition to the eastern coastal part of the Adriatic, the Impresso culture comes across the Neretva to the central part of Bosnia along the course of the Bosna River, and here it comes into contact with the bearers of the Starčevo cultural complex, during which the formation of the Starčevo-Impresso culture occurs as a representative of the early Neolithic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Also, Trans-Adriatic trade confirmed overseas crossings from the western coast of the Adriatic to the eastern and vice versa, especially in the trans-Adriatic trade, obsidian stands out as an expensive material that was highly valued at the time and which, due to its geographical proximity, came from Lipari from the area of the Tyrrhenian Sea via Sicily, south of Italy, to the axis as an orientation point of the Gargano peninsula and the islands of Tremita-Palagruža-Sušac to Hvar all the way to the eastern coast of the Adriatic. Impresso culture spread from the area of the eastern Adriatic throughout the Mediterranean, so due to its most common way of decoration, it is also known as impresso-cardium culture in the Mediterranean basin.