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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.
McCoy MD, Carpenter J.
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On sourcing obsidian assemblages from the Mediterranean area: analytical strategies for their exhaustive geochemical characterisation [PDF]
, 2016 Marie Orange +7 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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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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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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Journal of Lithic Studies, 2018 The aim of this paper is to report the first analyses carried out on obsidian artifacts recovered from two archaeological sites of the Tafí valley (Tucumán, Argentina), dating to the first and second millennium C.E.
Juan Manuel Montegú +2 more
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Journal of Lithic Studies, 2017 Edited by Carolyn D. Dillian (Coastal Carolina University), Twenty-Five Years on the Cutting Edge of Obsidian Studies: Selected Readings from the IAOS Bulletin consists of 19 previously published articles from the International Association for Obsidian ...
Sean Dolan
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Procurement and circulation of obsidian in the province of La Pampa, Argentina
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2018 The goal of this study is to report the progress regarding the procurement and circulation of obsidian by hunter-gatherer populations during the Late Holocene in the province of La Pampa, Argentina.
Monica Alejandra Berón +2 more
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