The origin and distribution of obsidian in prehistoric Bohemia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/17:00109402

Result on the web

<a href="http://be-ja.org/index.php/Be-JA/article/view/3/1" target="_blank" >http://be-ja.org/index.php/Be-JA/article/view/3/1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The origin and distribution of obsidian in prehistoric Bohemia

Original language description

This paper summarizes current knowledge of the distribution of obsidian in prehistoric Bohemia (Czech Republic). In terms of this raw material's distribution, Bohemia is a peripheral area, and it is also the westernmost part of its regular archaeological occurrence. Because of its rarity within the specified area, it is possible to identify this material quite easily even in earlier archaeological literature, and together with new discoveries, to create a coherent picture of its distribution. So far, only two locations in Bohemia have been described where the processing of raw obsidian material is documented. Both these sites are located in the eastern part of the study area, in terms of location these are the closest sites to the anticipated sources. The sites are dated to a later stage of the Stroked Pottery culture. Because no such processing sites are known from other periods, we believe it was mainly the distribution of entire blanks and pre-prepared cores that took place at that time. Furthermore, our study discusses the original sources of obsidian in terms of the region that is being monitored. In accordance with the aims of our investigation, the selected obsidian artefacts were subjected to geochemical analysis to identify their origins. The peak of the distribution is the period of the Stroked Pottery culture (4900-4500/4400 cal BC). The basic outcome of the geochemical analysis is the identification of at least two sources of raw material in the Carpathian source area.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-16963S" target="_blank" >GA15-16963S: Building Structures, Activity Areas and the Site Layouts of the Late Neolithic Settlement Areas (5000/4900 – 4500/4400 BC)</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Bulgarian e-Journal of Archaeology

ISSN

1314-5088

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

BG - BULGARIA

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1-15

UT code for WoS article

000418006600002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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