For over 70 years the introduction of natural sciences to archaeology and cultural heritage
has been ever growing with multiple contributions to deciphering the past. Novel techniques …

It has been 25 years since the publication of the monograph L'obsidienne au Proche et
Moyen Orient: Du volcan à l'outil (Cauvin et al., 1998) and, within it, Poidevin's (1998) …

The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Archaemenid Empire is the first modern
academic study to provide a synthetic, diachronic analysis of the archaeology and early …

A series of well-characterized specimens, known as the Peabody-Yale Reference Obsidians
(PYRO) sets, has been designed to aid with calibrating and assessing X-ray fluorescence …

For more than a half-century, obsidian provenancing has underpinned many archaeological
investigations of peoples of the past. The pace of obsidian studies in this regard has …

The cave of Getahovit-2 is situated in north-eastern Armenia, in the foothills of the Lesser
Caucasus which dominate the valley of the Kura. The excavations (2011–2017), carried out …

Abstract The Southern Caucasus is traditionally an important area of livestock production
and a key region in the spread of herding from southwestern Asia to Eurasia's western …

The genomic characterisation of human remains and the study of archaeological
assemblages are complementary keys to understanding the evolution of ancient human …

The beginning of agriculture marks major changes in food acquisition technology in human
history. In the southern Caucasus, agricultural villages emerged around 6000 cal. BC, 2000 …

In this work, a detailed study of Monte Arci obsidian sub-sources using the increasingly
accessible technique of pXRF is presented based upon a large dataset of 68 geological …