An Assessment of the Current Applications and Future Directions of Obsidian Sourcing Studies in Archaeological Research*

Title: An Assessment of the Current Applications and Future Directions of Obsidian Sourcing Studies in Archaeological Research*
Creator(s): Freund, Kyle
Date: 2013
Is Part Of: Archaeometry
Volume: 55
Issue: 5
Pages: 779-793
Language: eng
Rights: © 2012 University of Oxford
ISSN: 1475-4754
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4754.2012.00708.x
URI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-4754.2012.00708.x
Zotero BiDiAr: https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/J3KSY748/item-list
Abstract: This paper thematically characterizes a large body of recent obsidian sourcing discourse as a means of highlighting the current place of obsidian provenance studies in larger archaeological discourse. It is shown that the field of obsidian sourcing is flourishing, with a clear upward trend in the number of published studies in the past decade. This paper further argues that sourcing is a means to an end, a way to determine where artefacts originate, and thus a means of addressing broader archaeological problems. Through this contextual framework, obsidian sourcing studies—and indeed all provenance studies—are seen as relevant because they transcend the increasingly specialized world of archaeological discourse.
cited by: Does not compute! Accounting for social and situated experiences while integrating and analyzing obsidian sourcing data

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