id
	12895
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/12895
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	An Assessment of the Current Applications and Future Directions of Obsidian Sourcing Studies in Archaeological Research*
Creator
	Freund, Kyle
Date
	2013
Language
	eng
Rights
	© 2012 University of Oxford
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.
Is Part Of
	Archaeometry
Cited by
	12585
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4754.2012.00708.x
Issn
	1475-4754
Issue
	5
Pages
	779-793
Uri
	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-4754.2012.00708.x
Volume
	55
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/J3KSY748/item-list

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