Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7439860 | L'Anthropologie | 2018 | 18 Pages |
Abstract
Obsidian artefacts are numerous in the Upper Paleolithic sites of Northwest Romania. The use of obsidian begins during the Aurignacian and continues during the Gravettian, All the stages of the lithic reduction sequence are present. The obsidian tools are numerous in some sites. Non-destructive chemical analysis by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) was performed on 232Â obsidian artefacts from five sites: BuÅag, Remetea ÅomoÅ I, CÄlineÅti I, BoineÅti and Turulung. The results show that Early/Middle Upper Paleolithic people in northwest Romania acquired their obsidian, directly or indirectly, from sources on the western flank of the Carpathians, up to 170Â km away.
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Authors
Roxana Dobrescu, Alain Tuffreau, Clive Bonsall,