Petroarcheometric Analysis on Obsidian Artefacts Found Within Some Neolithic – Eneolithic Period Caves of Southern Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13077586 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pasquale Acquafredda (0000-0001-6965-3569, Consorzio Interuniversitario Reattività Chimica e Catalisi, corresponding author), Felice Larocca, Antonella Minelli (0000-0001-7980-2222, University of Molise), Mauro Pallara (University of Bari Aldo Moro), Francesca Micheletti (0000-0002-0804-6033, University of Bari Aldo Moro) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107-123 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Open Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2300-6560 • E-ISSN: 2300-6560 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Open (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.1515/opar-2020-0110 |
| OpenAlex | W3046447593 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 16 |
In the last twenty years, obsidian artefacts have been found in important and often extensive karst cavities in Southern Italy: three located in Calabria (Grotta della Monaca, and Grotta del Tesauro, in Sant’Agata di Esaro, Cosenza; Grotta Pietra Sant’Angelo in San Lorenzo Bellizzi, Cosenza), one in Puglia (Grotta di Santa Barbara in Polignano a Mare, Bari) and another in Campania (Grotta di Polla, Salerno). All these sites, that have returned a total of 151 obsidian tools, were connected to human frequentation of the underground environments that occurred during the Holocene, which can be precisely located in the vast period between the Neolithic and the Eneolithic (6 th –4 th millennium BC). They are mainly blades and bladelets, but also burins together with scrapers and cores, generally of small dimensions. SEM-EDS and WD-XRF absolutely non-destructive analyses carried out on these items have shown that all samples have a source area in the obsidian outcrops of the island of Lipari (Messina, Italy). These data confirm that the Aeolian island of Lipari furnished the privileged obsidian extraction outcrops for most of the Neolithic and Eneolithic archaeological sites of Southern Italy
Archaeology · Art · Bronze Age · Cave · Chalcolithic · Geography · Holocene · Outcrop · Period (music · Pottery · Prehistory · Radiocarbon dating · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology · Paleontology
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |