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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 ...
S. Chia +2 more
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Sourcing obsidian from prehistoric sites in northwest Romania
Materiale şi Cercetãri Arheologice (Serie Nouã), 2018 Portable X‐ ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy (pXRF) was used to reveal the chemical signatures of 75 obsidian artefacts from seven sites in the Satu Mare region, ranging in age from Early Neolithic (late Starčevo‐ Criș culture) to Late Copper Age.
Adina Boroneant
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Sourcing obsidian: a new optimized LA-ICP-MS protocol [PDF]
Science and Technology of Archaeological Research, 2016 Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry [LA-ICP-MS] is one of the most successful analytical techniques used in archaeological sciences.
Renaud Joannes-Boyau +2 more
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Sourcing obsidian artefacts from Early Neolithic sites in South-Central Romania [PDF]
Materiale şi Cercetãri Arheologice (Serie Nouã), 2019 Portable X‐ ray fluorescence spectroscopy (pXRF) was used to reveal the chemical signatures of 60 obsidian artefacts from two Early Neolithic sites in the Muntenia region of southern Romania – Uliești in Dâmbovița County and Măgura – Buduiasca in ...
Adina Boroneant
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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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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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