Sourcing obsidian from prehistoric sites in northwest Romania

Boroneanț, Adina; Virag, Cristian; Astaloş, Ciprian

doi:10.3406/mcarh.2018.2057

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“…Likewise, at Ohoden in northern Bulgaria dating of the C1 obsidian to the late Starčevo period rests on ceramic typology. Taken together, this evidence is at least consistent with the results of obsidian provenance studies in other regions of Romania that point to preferential use of C1 obsidian throughout Romania from the later stages of the Early Neolithic onwards (Glascock et alii 2017;Boroneanț et alii 2018).…”

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Sourcing obsidian artefacts from Early Neolithic sites in South-Central Romania

Boroneanț¹,

Mirea²,

Ilie³

2019

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Portable X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (pXRF) was used to reveal the chemical signatures of 60 obsidian artefacts from two Early Neolithic sites in the Muntenia region of southern Romania-Uliești in Dâmbovița County and Măgura-Buduiasca in Teleorman County. The results show that the Starčevo-Criș communities at both sites used obsidian that originated from geological sources in the Carpathians. Obsidian from the C1 and C2 source areas occurs at Măgura, while only C1 obsidian has been documented in the much smaller assemblage from Uliești. We consider the implications of these results for obsidian procurement patterns documented among the earliest farmers of the northern Balkans. Cuvinte-cheie: pXRF, surse de obsidian, neolitic, Starčevo-Criș, sud-centrul României Rezumat: Spectrometrul portabil cu raze X (pXRF) a fost utilizat pentru a determina semnătura chimică a 60 de piese din obsidian provenind din două situri neolitice timpurii din Muntenia, sudul României: Uliești din județul Dâmbovița și Măgura-Buduiasca din județul Teleorman. Conform rezultatelor obținute, comunitățile Starčevo-Criș din ambele localități au folosit obsidian care provenea din surse geologice carpatice. Obsidianul din zonele sursă C1 și C2 apare la Măgura, în timp ce numai obsidianul de tip C1 a fost documentat în ansamblul litic mult mai redus de la Uliești. Sunt discutate apoi implicațiile acestor rezultate pentru modelele de obținere a obsidianului de către comunitățile neolitice timpurii din zona nord-balcanică.

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Sourcing obsidian artefacts from Early Neolithic sites in South-Central Romania

Boroneanț¹,

Mirea²,

Ilie³

2019

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“…Despite the number of Romanian Neolithic sites from which obsidian has been characterised and analysed (Boroneanţ et al 2018(Boroneanţ et al , 2019, the data at present available from Vinča culture and other Middle Neolithic contexts are few (Glasswork et al 2015;Boroneanţ et al 2018). In particular, the detailed study of the Miercurea Sibiului/Szerdahely (Transylvania) lithic assemblages has shown that changes took place in raw material procurement and tool manufacture between the Early (Criş) and Middle (Vinča) Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, especially as regards the non-obsidian material (Biagi 2015, 257).…”

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Archaeometric analysis of the obsidian assemblage from Hodoni/Hodony (Banat, Romania)

Starnini,

Biagi,

Gratuze

2024

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Hodoni “Pocioroane” is one of the archaeological sites discovered near the village of Hodoni/Hodony, ca. 25 km north of Timişoara, in the Romanian Banat. The excavations carried out at “Pocioroane” have yielded traces of superimposed Neolithic settlements and a medieval cemetery. This paper considers 113 obsidian artefacts recovered during the excavations carried out between 1985 and 1991 in the Vinča C2 and Tisza culture layers and features. The obsidian artefacts are represented by waste flakes, bladelets, exhausted cores and a few retouched tools two of which show utilisation marks. The artefacts have been characterised by LA-ICP-MS and XRF methods at the CNRS laboratory of Orléans University (France) indicating a Carpathian 1 provenance.

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The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe

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Alpaslan-Roodenberg

Acar

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By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic period and Bronze Age (about 5000 to 1000 BCE), when extensive gene flow entangled it with the Eurasian steppe. Two streams of migration transmitted Caucasus and Anatolian/Levantine ancestry northward, and the Yamnaya pastoralists, formed on the steppe, then spread southward into the Balkans and across the Caucasus into Armenia, where they left numerous patrilineal descendants. Anatolia was transformed by intra–West Asian gene flow, with negligible impact of the later Yamnaya migrations. This contrasts with all other regions where Indo-European languages were spoken, suggesting that the homeland of the Indo-Anatolian language family was in West Asia, with only secondary dispersals of non-Anatolian Indo-Europeans from the steppe.

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Sourcing obsidian from prehistoric sites in northwest Romania

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Sourcing obsidian artefacts from Early Neolithic sites in South-Central Romania

Sourcing obsidian artefacts from Early Neolithic sites in South-Central Romania

Archaeometric analysis of the obsidian assemblage from Hodoni/Hodony (Banat, Romania)

The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe

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