Cultures which are known to have actively traded in amber included Unetice, Otomani, Wessex, Globular Amphora, and, of course, Roman. Catherine the Great moved it to her summer palace in Tsarskoye Selo and embellished it about 1770. The earliest evidence that amber was known about, mined, and worked with in the Baltic Sea/Gdansk area dates from between 8000 - 4000 B. C. The illustration to the right showing an amber-fisher is from ‘Succini prussici physica et civilis historia’ in 1297. In the Kurpie region of Poland, amber became a integral factor in the ethnographic identity of its people. The Kurpie (15th century) people gathered the amber from their own land using simple tools that were specially designed for the task. Amber was always present in their culture. When Pomerania was seized by the Teutonic Order in the 14th century, amber became exceptionally sought after. The Vistula amber earrings route linked the Gdansk Coastal area with the Mediterranean countries and was travelled as early as the 5th century B.C. A generalized interpretation of the depositional conditions present in Kansas amber-bearing strata is that a transgressing or advancing Cretaceous sea in north-central Kansas led to deposition and preservation of fluvial, estuarine, and lagoon or bay deposits behind a barrier island system.
The geological reason for the concentration of amber rings in this region has been described by a number of authorities N.O. Holst, the Swedish State Geologist referred to an ancient river called the ‘Alnarps’ which he wanted to call the ‘Amber River’.
The river followed a fault in the geological strata taking a roughly Southeast route starting near the city of Ystad and it has been tracked as far as Northern Själland.

This conclusion was originally made by Aycke in 1853. An This conviction has been recently confirmed by Albert Bogdasarov, a Byelorussian mineralogist who recommends the wearing of amber necklace, especially by children, in areas of intense radiation caused by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. of this sort was one of the most important ways that people of the early Bronze Age could display their power and influence.

But, two recent pine tree genera’s have been found which do possess succinic acid in their resin, they are Keteleeria and Pseudolarix. Pseudolarix is therefore beginning to look more likely as the true source of the Baltic Amber deposits.