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Obsidian Mediterranean distribution

In the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East area, for example, there are obsidian outflows only in Italy, in some islands in the Aegean Sea, and in Turkey. Artifacts made of obsidian, however, are widely distributed over much of this vast area. Chemical analysis of many of these artifacts has shown that most of the obsidian used to make them originated in one or another of the outflows mentioned, but also in far-distant places such as Armenia and Iran. Plotting on a graph the concentration of selected elements in samples from obsidian sources against that in samples from sites where it was used, enables the identification of the source of the samples (see Fig. 22). Moreover, this type of analysis also makes it possible to trace the routes through which obsidian (and most probably other goods) were traded in antiquity (Renfrew and Dixon 1976). [Pg.126]

Tykot, R. H. (1996), Obsidian procurement and distribution in the central and western Mediterranean, /. Mediterranean Archaeol. 9(1), 39-82. [Pg.620]

Phillips, P. (1992). Western Mediterranean obsidian distribution and the European Neolithic. In Sardinia in the Mediterranean A Footprint in the Sea, ed. Tykot, R.H. and Andrews, T.K., Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, pp. 71-82. [Pg.96]

Gratuze, B. (1999). Obsidian characterization by laser ablation ICP-MS and its application to prehistoric trade in the Mediterranean and the Near East sources and distribution of obsidian within the Aegean and Anatolia. Journal of Archaeological Science 26 869-881. [Pg.366]

Tykot, Robert H. 1996. Obsidian procurement and distribution in the Central and Western Mediterranean. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 9(1) 39-82. [Pg.298]


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