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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, Florencia Natalin Páez, Manuel Carrera Aizpitarte   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sourcing Oldowan and Acheulean stone tools in Eastern Africa: Aims, methods, challenges, and state of knowledge

Quaternary Science Advances, 2023
Eastern Africa's Plio-Pleistocene palaeoanthropological record has shaped our understanding of human biological and cultural evolution. Over the years, raw material sourcing has emerged as an important research topic in lithic analysis as it can allow ...
Julien Favreau
doaj   +1 more source

Obsidian sourcing in Southwest Arabia and the Horn of Africa : implications for human mobility and interaction in the Neolithic

, 2016
International audienceThe last decade has seen significant advancement in the geochemical fingerprinting of obsidian sources and obsidian artifacts on both sides of the Red Sea Rift.
Cauliez, Jessie, Oppenheimer, Clive, Khalidi, Lamya, Keall, Edward, Gratuze, Bernard   +4 more
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Obsidian Studies in the Prehistoric Central Mediterranean: After 50 Years, What Have We Learned and What Still Needs to Be Done?

Open Archaeology, 2017
Obsidian sourcing studies have been conducted in the central Mediterranean for more than 50 years. Detailed studies have been done on the geological sources on four Italian islands, and many analytical methods have been used to successfully distinguish ...
Tykot Robert H.
doaj   +1 more source

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.
Daniel Riebe
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Chert procurement in Corsica during the Neolithic: Inferring social territories in the Tyrrhenian islands

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2020
From the Neolithic, foreign siliceous materials were imported into Corsica as the island lacks local chert and obsidian. Such a context constitutes a real opportunity to investigate the relationship of the island with surrounding areas, in perspective ...
Céline Leandri, Paul Fernandes
doaj   +1 more source

DObsiSS: The Database of Obsidian Sourcing Studies

, 2014
<p>The Database of Obsidian Sourcing Studies</p ...
Zack Batist (5283031), Zack Batist
core   +1 more source

Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Obsidian in Oklahoma: Conveyance Zones on the Southern Plains [PDF]

, 2023
Obsidian is an exotic lithic resource rarely found in Oklahoma, yet it still occurs in the archaeological record. This project utilized Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) Mass Spectrometry to geochemically source 110 obsidian artifacts from ...
Oliver, James
core  

Chemometric analysis of Mesoamerican obsidian sources [PDF]

Quaternary International, 2019
Abstract We propose a combination of portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) and chemometrics to discriminate between Mesoamerican obsidian sources and to assign archaeological artifacts of unknown origin to their respective deposits using a procedure that does not require any type of calibration or reference standards.
Lopez-Garcia, Pedro, Argote, Denisse L., Beirnaert, Charlie   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

A decision-making approach for investigating the potential effects of near sourcing on supply chain [PDF]

, 2012
Purpose - Near sourcing is starting to be regarded as a valid alternative to global sourcing in order to leverage supply chain (SC) responsiveness and economic efficiency.
Arese M., Cagliano, Anna Corinna, De Marco, Alberto, Arese, M., Rafele, Carlo   +4 more
core   +1 more source