Vol. 68 No. 2 (2016)
Materialia

The origin of obsidian in prehistoric Bohemia

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  • Pavel Burgert,
  • Antonín Přichystal,
  • Lubomír Prokeš,
  • Jan Petřík,
  • Simona Hušková
Pavel Burgert
Archeologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 4, CZ-118 01 Praha
Antonín Přichystal
Ústav geologických věd PřF MU, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno
Lubomír Prokeš
Ústav chemie PřF MU v Brně, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno
Jan Petřík
Ústav geologických věd PřF MU, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno
Simona Hušková
Ústav chemie PřF MU v Brně, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2016.11

Published 01-06-2016

Keywords

  • chipped industry,
  • obsidian,
  • Bohemia,
  • Neolithic,
  • Upper Palaeolithic,
  • geochemistry,
  • provenance
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Burgert, P., Přichystal, A., Prokeš, L., Petřík, J., & Hušková, S. (2016). The origin of obsidian in prehistoric Bohemia. Archeologické Rozhledy, 68(2), 224–234. https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2016.11
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Abstract

The paper presents the results of the first geochemical analysis conducted on prehistoric obsidian artefacts from Bohemia. Eleven samples from reliably dated contexts were chosen for the study. The vast majority of the analysed samples can be classified into the Neolithic period. The artefacts were analysed using two non-destructive geochemical methods: concentration values determined by portable X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (pXRF) were calibrated using the results of laser ablation inductively coupled mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). Based on the results, the origin of nine samples can, with the greatest degree of probability, be traced to Slovakia, the other two to Hungary.

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