As clear as crystal? An attempt at sourcing hydrothermal quartz crystals from the Early Mesolithic site ‘Mohalsen-I’, Vega Island, Norway using LA-ICP-MS and SEM-CL

• Main Authors: Spjelkavik, Skule Olaus Svendsen, Müller, Axel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Institutt for arkeologi, historie, kultur- og religionsvitenskap (UiB), Universitetsmuseet i Bergen 2022
• Subjects: Berglia; Glassberget; Norway; Vega Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/94708; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-97244

This article describes an attempt at sourcing hydrothermal quartz crystals from the Early Mesolithic site Mohalsen-I by comparing four pieces of debitage with quartz crystal samples from 19 known quartz crystal occurrences in Norway. Through identifying a possible source, the hope was that we could...