The origin of obsidian in prehistoric Bohemia

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Authors	BURGERT Pavel PŘICHYSTAL Antonín PROKEŠ Lubomír PETŘÍK Jan HUŠKOVÁ Simona
Year of publication	2016
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Archeologické rozhledy
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
Keywords	chipped industry; obsidian; Bohemia; Neolithic; Upper Palaeolithic; geochemistry; provenance
Description	The paper presents the results of the first geochemical analysis conducted on prehistoric obsidian artefacts from Bohemia. Eleven samples from reliably dated contexts were chosen for the study. The vast majority of the analysed samples can be classified into the Neolithic period. The artefacts were analysed using two non-destructive geochemical methods: concentration values determined by portable X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (pXRF) were calibrated using the results of laser ablation inductively coupled mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). Based on the results, the origin of nine samples can, with the greatest degree of probability, be traced to Slovakia, the other two to Hungary.