The late Pleistocene expansion of anatomically modern humans (AMHs) into Eurasia and
the concurrent demise of the Neanderthals appears to be a complex and regionally variable …

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 monograph L'obsidienne au Proche et Moyen Orient: Du volcan à l'outil (Cauvin et al.,
1998) was first published 25 years ago, and between its covers, Poidevn's (1998) chapter …

This paper discusses the only substantive evidence for the Epipalaeolithic of central
Anatolia. This evidence allows revised understandings of phenomena often proposed as …

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 …

This paper examines an alternative approach to previously proposed models of prehistoric
exchange such as the law of monotonic decrement or the down-the-line exchange model …

Systematic archaeological surface reconnaissance of the Göllü Dağ volcanic complex from
2007 to 2012 documented more than 230 findspots with Paleolithic artifacts, ranging from …

Obsidian has long been recognised as a proxy for tracing long-distance interaction and
exchange. In this thesis, I use these lithics to examine the directionality, intensity and nature …

The renewed Mesolithic research in the Greek mainland and the islands has been providing
new insights into the lively maritime activity within the region; however, the southwest coast …