36708
Accession Number
22455
Title Of Journal Book
Provenience of Obsidian from Neolithic Sites in Israel
Reference Bibliography
Includes bibliog. refs.
Report Number
HUAL 5
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Unpublished
Literature Level
Monographic
Abstract
This report concerns sources of obsidian found in neolithic contexts in Israel. Source attribution was based on neutron activation analysis of 49 artifacts together with a series of analyses of specimens collected at obsidian sources in Anatolia. Pre-pottery neolithic obsidian appears to come exclusively from a single source, Göllü Dag. Later, obsidian is apparently imported from a larger number of Anatolian sources (data for later periods are not presented). These include Göllü Dag, Nenezi Dag, Lake Van, and a number which are not yet identified. It is considered puzzling that a single source of Anatolian obsidian was used throughout the 1500 or so years of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic while that source was located close to a number of other high-quality sources. Obsidian apparently was imported to Israel in the form of finished tools, as no cores and no debitage are known from Neolithic sites.
Keywords
obsidian;Neolithic;Israel;Anatolia;neutron activation analysis
pub_id
36708