An overview of the analytical techniques applied to study the Carpathian obsidians
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
An overview of the analytical techniques applied to study the Carpathian obsidians
Original language description
In this paper, we give a brief overview of the analytical techniques applied on Carpathian obsidians, from the mid-sixties until present. Besides modern analytical techniques that are focussed especially on the determination of obsidian artefact provenance, microscopic methods are also applied: investigation in thin section under polarising microscope (flow fabric, inclusions, phenocrysts), characterization of individual microlites and trichites embedded in a glassy groundmass using microprobe, measurement of glass refractive index. Already in 1886, Gyula Szádeczky used the determination of specific gravity on Hungarian obsidians to describe black, translucent, green and red varieties. Magnetic susceptibility was used to distinguish obsidian tools from pieces of artificial glassy slag resembling to artefacts and found during field prospection. The presented methods are discussed according to their physical features, i.e. how the information obtained, elemental-, isotopic- or structural analysis, bulk or surface methods, what elements can be measured, are they sensitive enough for trace element analysis, what are the advantages and limitations. Question of the nondestructivity, as well as economic aspects, i.e. the speed and costs of the analysis are also discussed. Some examples of the provenance research of Carpathian obsidians are shown.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10504 - Mineralogy
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Archeometriai Mühely/Archaeometry Workshop
ISSN
1786-271X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
15
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
HU - HUNGARY
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
187-196
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85068262429