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Obsidian Sourcing and Characterization in the Celebes Region: An Initial Interpretation on the “Celebes Seafaring People” [PDF]

Open Archaeology, 2019
The peopling of Island Southeast Asia is told through the Austronesian migration theory. During the Neolithic Period (ca. 6000–5000 BP), the Austronesians entered the Philippines altering the cultural landscape and heralding the beginning of the ...
Neri Leee Anthony M.
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“Open Sourcing” Workflow and Machine Learning Approaches for Attributing Obsidian Artifacts to Their Volcanic Origins: A Feasibility Study from the South Caucasus [PDF]

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Traditionally, reliable obsidian sourcing requires expensive calibration standards and extensive geological reference collections as well as experience with statistical processing.
Bobokhyan, Arsen, Frahm, Ellery, Gilibert, Alessandra, Hnila, Pavol   +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]

Sci Rep
The 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.
Frahm E, Saribekyan M, Mkrtchyan S, Furquim L, Avagyan A, Sahakyan L, Azatyan K, Roberts P, Fernandes R, Yepiskoposyan L, Amano N, Antonosyan M.   +11 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

pXRF Sourcing of Obsidian from Pallaucha, Vilcashuaman: Insights into Exchange Patterns in South-Central Peru during the Early Horizon [PDF]

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, Jason Nesbitt, Yuichi Matsumoto, Yuri Cavero Palomino, Michael D. Glascock   +4 more
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Sourcing obsidian artefacts from Early Neolithic sites in South-Central Romania

Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 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 ...
Boroneanț, A., Mirea, P., Ilie, A., Bonsall, C.   +3 more
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Sourcing obsidian: a new optimized LA-ICP-MS protocol

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.
Marie Orange, François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec, Anja Scheffers, Renaud Joannes-Boyau   +3 more
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Sourcing Obsidian from Late Neolithic Sites on the Great Hungarian Plain: Preliminary p-XRF Compositional Results and the Socio-Cultural Implications

, 2019
Significant archaeological research has been conducted on chipped stone tools recovered from prehistoric sites throughout Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
Danielle J. Riebe
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A paradigm for sourcing New Zealand archaeological obsidians [PDF]

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 1974
Abstract The methods and results of a recent characterisation study of New Zealand obsidians are reported. The investigation was designed with the intention that it should enable students of New Zealand archaeology to source artefacts from other archaeological assemblages.
Graeme Ward
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Magnetite grain-size analysis and sourcing of Mediterranean obsidians [PDF]

Journal of Archaeological Science, 2012
Abstract The potential of magnetic grain-size variations as an obsidian source characteristic is investigated using geological and archaeological obsidians from five islands of the Mediterranean Sea: Lipari, Sardinia, Palmarola, Pantelleria, Melos. Four parameters are used: magnetic (χ) and anhysteretic (χa) susceptibilities, saturation isothermal ...
ZANELLA E, FERRARA, ENZO, BAGNASCO L, OLLA' A, LANZA R, BEATRICE, CINZIA   +5 more
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Dynamics of obsidian procurement at Pot Creek Pueblo (LA 260), Northern New Mexico. [PDF]

Archaeol Anthropol Sci, 2022
We present obsidian sourcing data from Pot Creek Pueblo (LA 260), one of the northernmost Puebloan settlements in the Northern Rio Grande, occupied from at least 1260 ce until ca.
Boulanger MT, Adler M, Sommer E, Jorgeson I.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources