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What can lithics tell us about food production during the transition to farming? Exploring harvesting practices and cultural changes during the neolithic in Southwest Asia: a view from Qminas (north‐western Syria)

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S3, Page S126-S153, June 2026.
Abstract This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that ...
Fiona Pichon, Osamu Maeda, Juan José Ibáñez Estévez, Patricia Anderson   +3 more
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Obsidianas enLa Payunia (sur de Mendoza, Argentina): patrones de distribución e implicancias en la ocupación regional Obsidian inLa Payunia (south Mendoza, Argentina): spatial pattern and its implications in the regional alchaeological record

Magallania, 2012
En este trabajo se presentan los resultados obtenidos del análisis tecnológico de artefactos de obsidiana procedentes del campo volcánico deLa Payunia (sur de Mendoza, Argentina).
LAURA SALGÁN, ADOLFO GIL, GUSTAVO NEME
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A Millennium of Coastside Occupation. Micromorphological Insights From the Indigenous Site of Las Estacas Cave, Tenerife

Geoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT The archaeological site of Las Estacas Cave (NW Tenerife, Canary Islands) preserves some of the earliest human occupations in Tenerife, dating to the 2nd century CE, spanning the entire pre‐European time range up to the 15th century. Using soil micromorphology, this study applies a geoarchaeological approach to reconstruct site formation ...
Pedro García‐Villa, Cristo M. Hernández, Carolina Mallol   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of Obsidian Sources on Milos, Greece

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 2018
Obsidian, a natural volcanic glass, was used extensively in ancient times because of its quality as a raw material for sharp blades. As such, obsidian is of high interest for provenancing studies, since reliable provenancing can provide information about trade routes, extension of territory, long-distance contacts and the mobility of prehistoric ...
Johannes H Sterba, Fabienne Eder, Max Bichler   +2 more
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Determining the Geological Provenance of Obsidian Artifacts from the Maya Region: A Test of the Efficacy of Visual Sourcing

Latin American Antiquity, 2000
During the last four decades, mesoamerican archaeologists regularly have employed various chemical assay techniques to determine the geological sources of obsidian artifacts.
Geoffrey E. Braswell, J. Clark, Kazuo Aoyama, H. McKillop, M. Glascock   +4 more
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Sourcing obsidian from early prehistoric sites on the Arad plain, Western Romania

Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice
Portable X‑ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy (pXRF) was used to obtain source determinations for 109 obsidian artefacts from seven sites on the Arad Plain in western Romania, belonging to the Neolithic and Eneolithic periods.
Boroneanț, A., Sava, V., Bonsall, C.
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Obsidian in the Upper Palaeolithic of Iberia

, 2021
International audienceSourced from the Tyrrhenian Islands and exchanged over long distances, obsidian was used widely across prehistoric Western Europe.
Villaverde Bonilla, Valentín, Zapata, Josefina, Angelucci, Diego, Le Bourdonnec, François-Xavier, Villaverde, Valentín, Zilhão, João, Martínez, Susana, Matias, Henrique, Martín-Lerma, Ignacio, Lucena, Armando, Zapata Crespo, Josefina, Angelucci, Diego E.   +11 more
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The Middle Stone Age After 50,000 Years Ago: New Evidence From the Late Pleistocene Sediments of the Eastern Lake Victoria Basin, Western Kenya

PaleoAnthropology, 2017
Here we report tephra correlations, lithic artifacts, obsidian sourcing data, and fauna from nine Late Pleistocene localities of the eastern Lake Victoria basin of western Kenya, as well as new excavations from the 49–36 ka site of Nyamita Main on ...
Nick Blegen, J, Tyler Faith, Alison Mant-Melville, Daniel J. Peppe, and Christian A. Tryon   +5 more
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Networks and Neolithisation: sourcing obsidian from Kortik Tepe (SE Anatolia)

, 2013
This paper details the use of obsidian sourcing to reconstruct networks of interaction (or 'communities of practice') amongst populations of south-eastern Anatolia and the Near East in the context of 'Neolithisation' during the late 11th-early 10th ...
Kartal, Metin, Grant, Sarah, Ozkaya, Vecihi, Coskun, Aytac, Carter, Tristan   +4 more
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Identifying the origins of obsidian artifacts in the Deh Luran Plain (Southwestern Iran) highlights community connections in the Neolithic Zagros. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022
Frahm E, Carolus CM.
europepmc   +1 more source