Journal
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 37, Issue 11, Pages 2705-2720Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.007
Keywords
Obsidian sourcing; PIXE; SEM-EDS; Non-destructive analysis; Catalhoyuk; Anatolian Neolithic; East Gollu Dag; Nenezi Dag; Near East
Funding
- Scientific Service, French Embassy in Canada
- United States National Science Foundation [BCS-0716333]
- France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Stanford University
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [0905411] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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In this paper we evaluate the relative analytical capabilities of SEM-EDS, PIXE and EDXRF for characterizing archaeologically significant Anatolian obsidians on the basis of their elemental compositions. The study involves 54 geological samples from various sources, together with an archaeological case study involving 100 artifacts from Neolithic Catalhoyuk (central Anatolia). With each technique the artifacts formed two compositional groups that correlated with the East Cella Dag and Nenezi Dag sources. The non-destructive capabilities of these methods are emphasized (albeit with certain analytical limitations in the case of SEM-EDS), suggesting important new techniques for Near Eastern obsidian provenance studies. (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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