Risk and reward: Explosive eruptions and obsidian lithic resource at Nabro volcano (Eritrea)

Risk and reward: Explosive eruptions and obsidian lithic resource at Nabro volcano (Eritrea)

Despite abundant Pleistocene calderas in the East African Rift and Afar, and the significance of regional tephra horizons for archaeological and paleoenvironmental dating, the entanglements of volcanoes and their eruptions with human behaviour and paleoecology have received little attention. Here, w...

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Main Authors: Blegen, N. (Author), Büntgen, U. (Author), Donovan, A. (Author), Goitom, B. (Author), Gratuze, B. (Author), Hammond, J.O.S (Author), Iverson, N. (Author), Keall, E. (Author), Khalidi, L. (Author), Lane, C. (Author), McIntosh, B. (Author), Ogubazghi, G. (Author), Oppenheimer, C. (Author), Sahle, Y. (Author), Vidal, C. (Author), Yohannes, E. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 2019
Subjects:
Ar–Ar geochronology
Behavioral research
chronology
East Africa
East African Rift
Effusive volcanisms
Eritrea
explosive
Explosive eruption
Explosives
Geo archaeologies
Geoarchaeology
geochemistry
Geochronology
Indian Ocean
Isotopic measurement
Late quaternary
microclimate
Middle Pleistocene
obsidian
Obsidian geochemistry
paleoecology
Pleistocene
Red Sea [Indian Ocean]
tephra
volcanism
volcano
Volcanoes
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