Detectors are a key feature of the contemporary scientific approach to cultural heritage (CH),
both for diagnostics and conservation. INFN-CHNet is the network of the Italian National …

Glass beads have been produced and traded for millennia all over the world for use as
everyday items of adornment, ceremonial costumes or objects of barter. The preservation of …

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 …

Tens of thousands of years ago at the site of Sunghir in Russia a number of people were
buried with grave goods, including truly extraordinary personal ornaments–thousands of …

This paper details the use of obsidian sourcing to reconstruct networks of interaction (or
'communities of practice') amongst populations of south-eastern Anatolia and the Near East …

Identifying the movement of lithic materials to reconstruct social networks has been a
mainstay of research into Palaeolithic cognition and behavior, but such datasets are often …

Non-destructive pXRF has the potential to expand sample populations of archaeological
provenancing studies by facilitating access to museum collections of artefacts. In this study …

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 …

Using PIXE four types of elemental compositions were found among obsidian artefacts from
the Bondi Cave and Ortvale Klde, Middle to Upper Palaeolithic sites in NW Georgia. One of …

Çatalhöyük is one of the most widely recognized and extensively researched Neolithic
settlements. The site has been used to discuss a wide range of aspects associated with the …