“…Such an approach produces a more detailed and nuanced appreciation of obsidian consumption, with such ‘thick description’ [ 89 ] characterisation studies enabling us to elicit significant distinctions in how raw materials were circulated and worked through space and time [ 13 , 14 , 26 , 27 , 36 , 84 , 90 , 91 ]. In short, this study focuses on practice, i.e., how people went about the manufacture of objects (the sequence of culturally informed raw material and technical choices), rather than just focusing on the raw material alone, or what the final product looked like [ 92 , 93 ].…”