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Obsidian

Improving micromorphological analysis with CNN-based segmentation of flint/obsidian, bone and charcoal

Rafael Arnay, Pedro García-Villa, Javier Hernández-Aceituno, Sara Rueda-Saiz, Carolina Mallol

published 20 Jan 2026

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Characterizing centrality: Obsidian consumption, supra-regional connectivity, and social reproduction at the Early Bronze Age sanctuary of Keros (Cyclades, Greece)

Tristan Carter, Rose Moir, Marina Milić, Colin Renfrew

published 11 Sep 2025

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The dichotomy of human decision-making: An experimental assessment of stone tool efficiency

David Nora, João Marreiros, Walter Gneisinger, Antonella Pedergnana, Telmo Pereira

published 18 Jul 2025

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First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: The archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia

Mathew Stewart, Eric Andrieux, James Blinkhorn, Maria Guagnin, Ricardo Fernandes, Nils Vanwezer, Amy Hatton, Mesfer Alqahtani, Iyad Zalmout, Richard Clark-Wilson, Yahya S. A. Al-Mufarreh, Mahmoud Al-Shanti, Badr Zahrani, Abdulaziz Al Omari, Faisal Al-Jibreen, Abdullah M. Alsharekh, Eleanor M. L. Scerri, Nicole Boivin, Michael D. Petraglia, Huw S. Groucutt

published 17 Apr 2024

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Identification of breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) and South American crops introduced during early settlement of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), as revealed through starch analysis

Paloma Berenguer, Claudia Clavero, Mónica Saldarriaga-Córdoba, Antonio Rivera-Hutinel, Daniela Seelenfreund, Helene Martinsson-Wallin, Patricia Castañeda, Andrea Seelenfreund

published 20 Mar 2024

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Archaeological evidence for two culture diverse Neanderthal populations in the North Caucasus and contacts between them

Ekaterina V. Doronicheva, Liubov V. Golovanova, Vladimir B. Doronichev, Redzhep N. Kurbanov

published 13 Apr 2023

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Raw material choices and technical practices as indices of cultural change: Characterizing obsidian consumption at ‘Mycenaean’ Quartier Nu, Malia (Crete)

Tristan Carter, Vassilis Kilikoglou

published 23 Aug 2022

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Long-distance trade in the Middle Chalcolithic of the southern Levant: The case of the olivine beads from Tel Tsaf, Jordan Valley, Israel

Danny Rosenberg, Yael Elkayam, Yossi Garfinkel, Florian Klimscha, Vesna Vučković, Yaakov Weiss

published 10 Aug 2022

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Every contact leaves a trace: Documenting contamination in lithic residue studies at the Middle Palaeolithic sites of Lusakert Cave 1 (Armenia) and Crvena Stijena (Montenegro)

Ellery Frahm, Daniel S. Adler, Boris Gasparyan, Bing Luo, Carolina Mallol, Goran Pajović, Gilbert B. Tostevin, Benik Yeritsyan, Gilliane Monnier

published 07 Apr 2022

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Central Oregon obsidian from a submerged early Holocene archaeological site beneath Lake Huron

John M. O’Shea, Ashley K. Lemke, Brendan S. Nash, Elisabeth P. Sonnenburg, Jeffery R. Ferguson, Alex J. Nyers, Danielle J. Riebe

published 19 May 2021

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Short-term occupations at high elevation during the Middle Paleolithic at Kalavan 2 (Republic of Armenia)

Ariel Malinsky-Buller, Philip Glauberman, Vincent Ollivier, Tobias Lauer, Rhys Timms, Ellery Frahm, Alexander Brittingham, Benno Triller, Lutz Kindler, Monika V. Knul, Masha Krakovsky, Sebastian Joannin, Michael T. Hren, Olivier Bellier, Alexander A. Clark, Simon P. E. Blockley, Dimidry Arakelyan, João Marreiros, Eduardo Paixaco, Ivan Calandra, Robert Ghukasyan, David Nora, Nadav Nir, Ani Adigyozalyan, Hayk Haydosyan, Boris Gasparyan

published 04 Feb 2021

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Migration, adaptation, innovation: The spread of Neolithic harvesting technologies in the Mediterranean

Niccolò Mazzucco, Juan José Ibáñez, Giacomo Capuzzo, Bernard Gassin, Mario Mineo, Juan Francisco Gibaja

published 30 Apr 2020

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Assessment of complex projectiles in the early Late Pleistocene at Aduma, Ethiopia

Yonatan Sahle, Alison S. Brooks

published 09 May 2019

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