Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jn8rn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-29T00:41:45.295Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

New directions in central Mediterranean obsidian studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Robert H. Tykot  and
Albert J. Ammerman
Robert H. Tykot
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa FL 33620, USA. rtykot@luna.cas.usf.edu
Albert J. Ammerman
Affiliation:
Department of the Classics, Colgate University, Hamilton NY 13346, USA
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Mediterranean obsidian-provenance studies are changing in direction and focus of modern research, with characterization of the Sardinian sources, application of minimally destructive and inexpensive analytical techniques, analysis of complete or large parts of assemblages, and the integration of provenance data with reduction technology and use-wear traces.

Type
Notes
Information
Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 274 , December 1997 , pp. 1000 - 1006
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Acquafredda, P., Lorenzoni, S. & Zanettin, E. 1996. Discrimination of Melos, Lipari, Palmarola obsidians using XRF and SEM-EDS, in Summers, G. & Summers, F. (ed.), Archaeometry ’94. Proceedings of the 29th international symposium on archaeometry, May 9–14, Ankara, Turkey. 87–97. Ankara: Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey.Google Scholar
Ammerman, A.J. 1979. A study of obsidian exchange networks in Calabria, World Archaeology 11: 95–110.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ammerman, A.J. 1985. The Acconia survey: Neolithic settlement and the obsidian trade. London: Institute of Archaeology. Occasional Publication 10.Google Scholar
Ammerman, A.J., Cesana, A., Polglase, C. & Terrani, M. 1990. Neutron activation analysis of obsidian from two neolithic sites in Italy, Journal of Archaeological Science 17:209–20.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ammerman, A.J. & Polglase, C.R. 1993. The exchange of obsidian at Neolithic sites in Italy, in Healy, F. & Scarre, C. (ed.), Trade and exchange in European prehistory: 101–7. Oxford: Oxbow. Monograph 33.Google Scholar
Ammerman, A.J. & Polglase, C.R. 1997. Analyses and descriptions of the obsidian collections from Arene Candide, in Maggi, R. (ed.), sirene Candide: a functional and environmental assessment of the Holocene sequence: 573–92. Rome: Il Calamo. Memorie dell’Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana 5.Google Scholar
Ammerman, A.J., Shaffer, G.D. & Hartmann, N. 1988. A Neolithic household at Piana di Curinga, Italy, Journal of Field Archaeology 15: 121–40.Google Scholar
Arias, C., Bernardes, C., Bigazzi, G., Bonadonna, F.P., Cesar, M.F., Hadler Neto, J.C., Lattes, C.M.G., Olive Ira, J.X, Osorio Áraya, A.M. & Radi, G. 1986. Identificação da proveniência de manufaturados de obsidiana através da datação com o método do traço de flssào, Ciència e Cultura 38: 285–308.Google Scholar
Arias, C, Bigazzi, G., Bonadonna, F.P., Cipolloni, M., Hadler, J.C., Lattes, C.M.G. & Radi, G. 1984. Fission track dating in archeology: a useful application, in Parrini, P.L. (ed.), Scientific methodologies applied to works of arts: 151–9. Montedison Progetto Cultura.Google Scholar
Assorgia, A., Beccaluva, L., Di PAOLA, G., Maccioni, L., Macciotta, G., Puxeddu, M., Santacroce, R. & Venturelli, G. 1976. Il complesso vulcanico di Monte Arci (Sardegna Centro-Occidentale): nota illustrativa alla carta geo-petrografica 1:50.000, Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana 95: 371–401.Google Scholar
Bailloud, G. 1969a. Fouilles de Basi (Serra-di-Ferro — Corse): campagne 1968, Corse Historique 9(33): 49–64.Google Scholar
Bailloud, G. 1969b. Fouille d’un habitat néolithique et torréen à Basi (Serra-di-Ferro — Corse): premiers résultats, Bulletin de la Sociéte Préhistoire Française 66: 367–84.Google Scholar
Beccaluva, L., Deriu, M., Maccioni, L., Macciotta, G. & Venturelli, G. 1974. Il massiccio vulcanico di M.te Arci (Sardegna centro-occidentale): nota preliminare, Rendiconti della Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia 30(2): 1069–80.Google Scholar
Beccaluva, L., Maccioni, L., Macciotta, G. & Venturelli, G. 1974. Dati geologici e petrochimici sul massiccio vulcanico di Monte Arci (Sardegna), Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana 13(2): 387–405.Google Scholar
Bigazzi, G., Meloni, S., Oddone, M. & Radi, G. 1986. Provenance studies of obsidian artifacts: trace elements and data reduction, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 98(2): 353–63.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bigazzi, G., Meloni, S., Oddone, M. & Radi, G. 1992a. Study on the diffusion of Italian obsidian in the neolithic settlements, in Atti del Vili convegno nazionale sulla attività di ricerca nei settori della radiochimica e della chimica nucleare, delle radiazioni e dei radioelementi, Torino, 16-19 giugno 1992: 243–7. Torino: CNR and Università degli Studi di Torino.Google Scholar
Bigazzi, G., Meloni, S., Oddone, M. & Radi, G. 1992b. Nuovi dati sulla diffusione dell’ossidiana negli insediamenti preistorici italiani, in Herring, et al.: 9–18.Google Scholar
Biró, T.K., Pozsgai, I. & Vlader, A. 1986. Electron beam microanalyses of obsidian samples from geological and archaeological sites, Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 38: 257–78.Google Scholar
Bulgarelli, G.M., DéERME, L., Pellegrini, E. & Petitti, P. 1993. L’insediamento preistorico di Poggio Olivastro (Canino-VT): considerazioni e prospettive, Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana 84: 435–80.Google Scholar
Cann, J.R. & Renfrew, C. 1964. The characterization of obsidian and its application to the Mediterranean region, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 30: 111–33.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Crisci, G.M., Ricq-de Bouard, M., Lanzaframe, U. & de Francesco, A.M. 1994. Nouvelle méthode d’analyse et provenance de l’ensemble des obsidiennes néolithiques du Midi de la France, Gallia Préhistoire 36: 299–309.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Crummett, J.G. & Warren, S.E. 1985. Appendix I: chemical analysis of Calabrian obsidian, in Ammerman, (1985): 107–14.Google Scholar
Marmora, DELLA, Ferrero, A 1839–40. Voyage en Sardaigne: ou description statistique, physique et politique de cette île, avec des recherches sur ses productions naturelles et ses antiquités. Paris: A. Bertrand.Google Scholar
Dixon, J.E. 1976. Obsidian characterization studies in the Mediterranean and Near East, in Taylor, R.E. (ed.), Advances in obsidian glass studies: archaeological and geochemical perspectives: 288–333. Park Ridge (NJ): Noyes Press.Google Scholar
Dyson, S.L., Gallin, L., Klimkiewicz, M., JR.Rowland, R.J., & Stevenson, CM. 1990. Notes on some obsidian hydration dates in Sardinia, Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologica per le Province di Cagliari e Oristano 7: 25–42.Google Scholar
Francaviglia, V.M. 1986. Characterization of Mediterranean obsidian sources by classical petrochemical methods, Preistoria Aipina 20 (1984): 311–32.Google Scholar
Francaviglia, V.M. 1988. Ancient obsidian sources on Pantelleria (Italy), Journal of Archaeological Science 15: 109–22.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Francaviglia, V. & Plperno, M. 1987. La repartition et la provenance de l’obsidienne archéologique de la Grotta dell’Uzzo et de Monte Cofano (Sicile), Revue d’Archéométrie 11: 31–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hallam, B.R., Warren, S.E. & Renfrew, C. 1976. Obsidian in the western Mediterranean: characterisation by neutron activation analysis and optical emission spectroscopy, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 42: 85–110.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Herold, G. 1986. Mineralogische, chemische und physikalische Untersuchungen an den Obsidianen Sardiniens und Palmarolas: Grundlagen zur Rekonstruktion prähistorischer Handelswege im Mittelmeerraum. Unpublished Ph.D thesis, Universität (TH) Fridericiana Karlsruhe.Google Scholar
Herring, E., Whitehouse, R. & Wilkins, J. (ed.). 1992. Papers of the fourth conference of Italian archaeology 3. New developments in Italian archaeology, part 1. London: Accordia Research Centre.Google Scholar
Hurcombe, L. 1992a. New contributions to the study of the function of Sardinian obsidian artifacts, in Tykot, & Andrews, : 83–97.Google Scholar
Hurcombe, L. 1992b. Use wear analysis and obsidian: theory, experiments and results. Sheffield: John Collis. Sheffield Archaeological Monographs 4.Google Scholar
Kayani, P.I. & Mcdonnell, G. 1996a. An assessment of back-scattered electron petrography as a method for distinguishing Mediterranean obsidians, Archaeometry 38: 43–58.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kayani, P.I. & Mcdonnell, G. 1996b. The potential of the scanning electron microscope for non-destructive obsidian characterisation and hydra-tion-rim dating research, in Archaeological sciences 1995: proceedings of a conference on the application of scientific techniques to archaeology, Liverpool, June 1995: 134–42. Oxford: Oxbow.Google Scholar
Keller, J. & Seikried, C. 1990. The present status of obsidian source identification in Anatolia and the Near East, in Albore Livadie, C. & Widemann, F. (ed.), Volcanologie et archéologie: proceedings of the European workshop of Rovello, November 19-27, 1987 and March 30–31, 1989: 57–87. PACT 25(4).Google Scholar
Mackey, M. & Warren, S.E. 1983. The identification of obsidian sources in the Monte Arci region of Sardinia, in Aspinall, A. & Warren, S.E. (ed.), Proceedings of the 22nd symposium on archaeometry, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK March 30th-April 3rd 1982: 420–31. Bradford.Google Scholar
Meloni, S. & Oddone, M. 1992. Chemistry applied to archaeology: acquisition and statistical treatment of data, in Herring, et al.: 3–8.Google Scholar
Michels, J., Atzeni, E., Tsong, I.S.T. & Smith, G.A. 1984. Obsidian hydration dating in Sardinia, in Balmuth, M.S. & Jr.Rowland, R.J., (ed.), Studies in Sardinian archaeology: 83-113. Ann Arbor (MI): University of Michigan Press.Google Scholar
Polglase, C. 1990. Appendice I, in Bernabò Brea, M., Ghiretti, A., Polglase, C. & Visconti, V., I siti neolitici lungo il torrente Cinghio (Parma), Preistoria Alpina 24: 140–55.Google Scholar
Puxeddu, C. 1958. Giacimenti di ossidiana del Monte Arci in Sardegna e sua irradiazione, Studi Sardi 14–15 (1955–57): 10–66.Google Scholar
Randle, K., Barfield, L.H. & Bagoiini, B. 1993. Recent Italian obsidian analyses, Journal of Archaeological Science 20: 503–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Renfrew, C. 1977. Alternative models for exchange and spatial distribution, in Earle, T.K. & Ericson, J.E. (ed.). Exchange systems in prehistory. 71–90. New York (NY): Academic Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stevenson, CM. & Ellis, J.G. In press. Dating Sardinian archaeological obsidian, in Balmuth, M.S. & Tykot, R.H. (ed.), Sardinian stratigraphy and Mediterranean chronology: studies in Sardinian archaeology 5. Oxford: Oxbow.Google Scholar
Trump, D.H. 1983. La Grotta Filiestru a Bonu Ighinu, Mara (SS). Sassari: Dessi. Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologica per le Provincie di Sassari e Nuoro 13.Google Scholar
Tykot, R.H. 1992. The sources and distribution of Sardinian obsidian, in Tykot, & Andrews, : 57–70.Google Scholar
Tykot, R.H. 1995a. Prehistoric trade in the western Mediterranean: the sources and distribution of Sardinian obsidian. Ph.D dissertation, Harvard University. Ann Arbor (MI): University Microfilms.Google Scholar
Tykot, R.H. 1995b. Provenance of obsidian artifacts from Ustica, in Holloway, R.R. & Lukesh, S.S. (ed.), Ustica 1: The results of the excavations of the Regione Siciliana Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali ed Ambientali Provincia di Palermo in collaboration with Brown University in 1990 and 1991: 51–3. Louvain-La-Neuve. Archaeologia Transatlantica 13.Google Scholar
Tykot, R.H. 1996a. Obsidian procurement and distribution in the central and western Mediterranean, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 9: 39–82.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tykot, R.H. 1996b. The geological source of an obsidian ear (04.1941) from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Revue d’EgyptoIogie 47: 177–9.Google Scholar
Tykot, R.H. 1997a. Characterization of the Monte Arci (Sardinia) obsidian sources, Journal of Archaeological Science 24: 467–79.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tykot, R.H. 1997b. Mediterranean islands and multiple flows: the sources and exploitation of Sardinian obsidian, in Shackley, M.S. (ed.), Method and theory in archaeological obsidian studies. New York (NY): Plenum.Google Scholar
Forthcoming. The provenance of obsidian found at the aceramic neolithic site of Kholetria Ortos (Cyprus), in Simmons, A. (ed.), Excavations at Kholetria Ortos (Cyprus).Google Scholar
Tykot, R.H. & Andrews, T.K. (ED.). 1992. Sardinia in the Mediterranean: a footprint in the sea. Studies in Sardinian archaeology presented to Miriam S. Balmuth. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 3.Google Scholar
Washington, H. 1913. Some lavas of Monte Arci, Sardinia, American Journal of Science 36: 577–90.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Williams-Thorpe, O 1995. Obsidian in the Mediterranean and the Near East: a provenancing success story, Archaeometry 37: 217–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Williams-Thorpe, O., Warren, S.E. & Barfield, L.H. 1979. The sources and distribution of archaeological obsidian in northern Italy, Preistoria Alpina 15: 73–92.Google Scholar
Williams-Thorpe, O., Warren, S.E. & Courtin, J. 1984. The distribution and sources of archaeological obsidian from southern France, Journal of Archaeological Science 11:135–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar