Archaeological Implications

Suggestions made in the early 20th Century that obsidian found on the island of Malta (with no natural sources) might have been brought there by Minoan traders were supported by the findings of Cornaggia Castiglioni et al. (1963). 

Since completing this chapter in 1995, a new wave of obsidian studies has appeared and the revised chapter seeks to capture some of these developments. 

Not all rocks can be characterized as successfully as obsidian. The success of obsidian provenance is due to the limited number of workable sources and the fact that each source, while being relatively homogeneous, is sufficiently different from other sources to enable elemental fingerprinting . This picture contrasts markedly with that of, for example, flint a stone not restricted to a 

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Trace-element analysis, using emission spectroscopy (107) and, especially, activation analysis (108) has been appHed in provenance studies on archaeological ceramics with revolutionary results. The attribution of a certain geographic origin for the clay of an object excavated elsewhere has a direct implication on past trade and exchange relationships. 

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