Journal or Publication Title:

Strategies of Obsidian Procurement, Knapping and Use in the First Farming Societies from the Caucasus to the Mediterranean

ISBN:

978-3-7001-9324-1 ; e-978-3-7001-9325-8

Corporate Creators:

Pub. cordinator: Ulrike Schuh

Abstract:

Since the mid-1990s we have been involved in the study and analysis of obsidian in Armenia, first only intermittently, then between 2002 and 2006 intensively with several field seasons to collect geological samples from all known obsidian sources in Armenia. Later a few samples from the Chikiani source in Georgia were included. For several reasons, this large dataset was only used as background information for various publications and reports but never published in total. Herewith we present neutron activation analyses of 153 obsidian samples together with detailed information on their geological setting and with some outlook on the distribution of obsidian in the Near East, with an emphasis on periods from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. It is possible to discriminate all sources based on diagrams of a few geochemically significant trace elements that could be determined with high sensitivity and precision.

Place of publishing:

Vienna

Publisher:

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press

Date of publication:

2024

Format:

pdf

Extent:

p. 167-248

Other physical description:

fig. ; notes

Identifier:

oai:arar.sci.am:379345 ; doi:10.1553/978OEAW93241

Call number:

И/III 22459

Bibliographic citation:

Appendix p. 223-248

Language:

en

General note:

Գիրքը գրադարանին տրամադրել է Խաչատուր Մելիքսեթյանը։

Location of original object:

ՀՀ ԳԱԱ Հիմնարար գիտական գրադարան