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Characterizing centrality: Obsidian consumption, supra-regional connectivity, and social reproduction at the Early Bronze Age sanctuary of Keros (Cyclades, Greece). [PDF]
PLoS ONEEarly Bronze Age [EBA] Keros was a central place in the 3rd millennium cal BC Cycladic islands (Greece). Its material culture attests links with communities throughout the Aegean and beyond. This study uses obsidian sourcing to help reconstruct the socio-
Tristan Carter +3 more
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Increasing obsidian diversity during the Chalcolithic Period at Yeghegis-1 Rockshelter (Armenia) reveals shifts in land use and social networks [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe newly excavated rockshelter of Yeghegis-1 in Armenia reflects an occupation of five centuries, as attested by radiocarbon dates from ∼ 4100 to 4000 cal BCE in the lowest layer to ∼ 3600–3500 cal BCE at the top.
Ellery Frahm +11 more
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Strategies for obtaining obsidian in pre-European contact era New Zealand. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Archaeological evidence of people's choices regarding how they supply themselves with obsidian through direct access and different types of exchanges gives us insight in to mobility, social networks, and property rights in the distant past.
Mark D McCoy, Jonathan Carpenter
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Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2020 Recent archaeological research demonstrates that the south-central highlands was a region of important sociocultural developments during the Early Horizon (ca. 800-200 BC).
Edison Mendoza Martínez +4 more
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Obsidian Sourcing in Bandung, Indonesia [PDF]
Asian Perspectives, 2010 This article presents the results of a study to determine whether the obsidian artifacts found in Gua Pawon, Dago, and Bukit Karsamanik in Bandung came from the well-known sources of Gunung Kendan in Nagreg, Kampung Rejeng in Garut, or elsewhere. Obsidian artifacts for this study were obtained from earlier archaeological excavations at Gua Pawon and ...
Chia, Stephen +2 more
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Non-Destructive pXRF on Prehistoric Obsidian Artifacts from the Central Mediterranean
Applied Sciences, 2021 Volcanic obsidian was widely used in ancient times for stone tools, with its highly glassy nature making it sharper than other lithics for cutting purposes.
Robert H. Tykot
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Population Dynamics and Human Strategies in Northwestern Patagonia
Documenta Praehistorica, 2021 In this paper we evaluate the role of human strategies in the Andean Piedmont from northern Patagonia across the Holocene. Specifically, we present the analysis of the Early Holocene-Late Holocene archaeological record of Salamanca cave (Mendoza ...
Gustavo Neme +9 more
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Characterization of the Obsidian Used in the Chipped Stone Industry in Kendale Hecala
Quaternary, 2022 Kendale Hecala is located on the Ambar River in the Upper Tigris Basin, province of Diyarbakır in Southeast Anatolia. Various raw materials, including obsidian, radiolarite, chert, jasper, chalcedony, and quartzite, were used in the lithic industry ...
Üftade Muşkara, Ayşin Konak
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Archaeological data on obsidian exchange in Northern Mesopotamia in IV–III mill. BC.
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2016 The article deals with a range of questions concerning obsidian exchange in settlements of Northern Mesopotamia. The chronological framework includes IV and III mill. BC (from Late Ubaid to Akkadian Periods). The first part presents the state of research
Ibragimova E.R.
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2023 Recent excavations at Sofular Höyük (Nevsehir, central Turkey) uncovered Aceramic Neolithic deposits dating to the late 9th and early 8th millennium cal BC and a lithic industry almost entirely made of obsidian. This study focuses on the techno-typology
Murat Karakoç +4 more
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