People and their material culture have moved across the Mediterranean since early
prehistory. By the early first millennium BC, a crucial change occurred when people began …

This paper thematically characterizes a large body of recent obsidian sourcing discourse as
a means of highlighting the current place of obsidian provenance studies in larger …

The obsidian sources of central Anatolia, the Aegean and central Europe have been studied
in detail over the past 50 years. Various analytical techniques have been employed to …

The Old Assyrian commercial system is perhaps the best-documented example of a long-
distance trade network surviving from the ancient world. The term “Old Assyrian” used here …

Within the framework of the F rench archaeological mission 'C aucasus', in a previous paper
we have presented new geochemical analyses on geological obsidians from the southern C …

This article illustrates how changes in the use of vegetal temper in Bronze Age earthen
architecture in Crete are a key line of evidence for investigating the appearance of …

In an attempt to explain how the human mind works up the raw materials of sensation into
the finished product of thought, Immanuel Kant distinguished two separate stages in the …

Portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) instruments can source obsidian artifacts once beyond
analytical reach, expanding the range of artifact classes included in sourcing research. It is …

We tested two portable XRF instruments (with different technologies) using two correction
schemes ('soils' and 'mining') with both factory‐set calibrations and linear regression …

Contact across long distances is evident in the Neolithic of the Near East, whether driven by
social networks, exchange links, or movement of individuals or populations. Movement of …