Tracing the source of obsidian from prehistoric sites in Bulgaria

Tracing the source of obsidian from prehistoric sites in Bulgaria

Portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) spectrometry was used to obtain source determinations for 11 obsidian artefacts from five archaeological sites in Bulgaria. The results show that all the archaeological specimens can be linked to obsidian sources in the Carpathian Mountains in the border region bet...

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Main Authors: Clive Bonsall, Maria Gurova, Nedko Elenski, Georgi Ivanov, Aneta Bakamska, Georgi Ganetsovski, Radka Zlateva-Uzunova, Vladimir Slavchev
Format: Article
Language:Bulgarian
Published: Association of Bulgarian Archaeologists 2017-06-01
Series:Българско е-Списание за Археология
Subjects:
obsidian
bulgaria
source determination
pxrf
early neolithic
late chalcolithic
Online Access:https://be-ja.org/index.php/journal/article/view/5

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