The identification of archaeological obsidian sources on Kamchatka Peninsula (Russian Far East) using geochemical and geological data: Current progress

• Published in: Quaternary International
• Main Authors: Grebennikov, Andrei V., Kuzmin, Yaroslav V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Камчатка; полуостров; обсидиан; Kamchatka Peninsula; Kamchatka; КАМЧАТК*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.03.020; https://openrepository.ru/article?id=294525

The current state-of-the-art of provenance studies for archaeological obsidian on Kamchatka Peninsula is presented. Prehistoric people widely used obsidian as a raw material for making tools, and acquired it from several primary sources. The exact position of seven sources allowed us to understand t...