Geological Sources of Obsidian on Lipari and Artifact Production and Distribution in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Central Mediterranean

The Aeolian island of Lipari, just north of eastern Sicily, was a major geological source of high quality obsidian that was volcanically formed in the Late Mesolithic, followed by another major production in the 1st millennium AD. A much earlier volcanic event on Lipari also produced some obsidian,...

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Main Author: Tykot Robert H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2019-04-01
Series:Open Archaeology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2019-0007