Obsidian provenance studies in the far eastern and northeastern regions of Russia and exchange networks in the prehistory of Northeast Asia: A review

• Published in: Documenta Praehistorica
• Main Author: Kuzmin, Yaroslav V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakulte / Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts 2019
• Subjects: provenance study; prehistoric exchange; far eastern Russia; Northeastern Siberia; obsidian; provenienca; prazgodovinska menjava; ruski Daljni Vzhod; severovzhodna Sibirija; Arctic; Kamchatka Peninsula; Kolyma; Chukotka; Kamčatka; Kamchatka; kolyma river; Sakhalin; Siberia
• Online Access: https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/46.18; https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.46.18

This overview is based on the results of 25+ years of provenance studies to identify the sources of high-quality volcanic glass (obsidian) in prehistoric cultural complexes of the far eastern and northeastern regions of Russia (Maritime Province, the Amur River basin, Sakhalin Island, the Kurile Isl...