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DOI	10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.024
	Origins of obsidian at the Pompeii of the Syrian Desert: Sourcing lithic artifacts from the Yale-French excavations at Dura-Europos
	Frahm, Ellery; Brody, Lisa R.
通讯作者	Frahm, E (corresponding author), Yale Univ, Dept Anthropol, Council Archaeol Studies, New Haven, CT 06520 USA.
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS
ISSN	2352-409X
出版年	2019
卷号	24 页码:608-622
英文摘要	The Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman site of Dura-Europos (or simply Dura), dubbed the Pompeii of the Syrian Desert by Yale historian and archaeologist Michael Rostovtzeff, was jointly excavated by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters from 1928 to 1937. Given the outstanding preservation of art and architecture at Dura, it is not surprising that four obsidian artifacts have escaped attention, despite evidence that stone tools - including obsidian ones - continued to be used into and after the Iron Age in the Eastern Mediterranean. After more than eight decades, the character of Dura's connections to the Classical world remains a matter of debate. Pottery includes not only local ceramic wares but also North African and Aegean ones. Our nondestructive pXRF testing establish that the Dura artifacts match the three most widely used Eastern Anatolian obsidian sources: Nemrut Dag volcano as well as the Bingo' A and B sources. If indeed obsidian arrived at Dura via long-standing mechanisms of Mesopotamian exchange, these Eastern Anatolian obsidians would be expected. Unfortunately, the artifacts' precise locations at Dura are unclear, the excavations lacked stratigraphic constraints, and Near Eastern obsidian distribution patterns have been rarely studied beyond the Early Bronze Age. Keeping in mind these limitations, our findings are most consistent with past suggestions regarding the importance of local Mesopotamian influences and resources at the site.
英文关键词	Classical antiquity Seleucid Parthian Roman Mesopotamia Portable XRF (pXRF)
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000466995200057
WOS关键词	ELEMENTAL CONCENTRATION DATA ; EASTERN ANATOLIAN OBSIDIANS ; URKESH TELL MOZAN ; ICP-MS ; SOCIAL NETWORKS ; GUNNISON BASIN ; CHIA SABZ ; PROVENANCE ; AGE ; PROCUREMENT
WOS类目	Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Archaeology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/362109
作者单位	[Frahm, Ellery] Yale Univ, Dept Anthropol, Council Archaeol Studies, New Haven, CT 06520 USA; [Frahm, Ellery] Yale Univ, Anthropol Div, Peabody Museum Nat Hist, New Haven, CT 06520 USA; [Brody, Lisa R.] Yale Univ Art Gallery, Ancient Art Dept, New Haven, CT USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Frahm, Ellery,Brody, Lisa R.. Origins of obsidian at the Pompeii of the Syrian Desert: Sourcing lithic artifacts from the Yale-French excavations at Dura-Europos[J],2019,24:608-622.
APA	Frahm, Ellery,&Brody, Lisa R..(2019).Origins of obsidian at the Pompeii of the Syrian Desert: Sourcing lithic artifacts from the Yale-French excavations at Dura-Europos.JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS,24,608-622.
MLA	Frahm, Ellery,et al."Origins of obsidian at the Pompeii of the Syrian Desert: Sourcing lithic artifacts from the Yale-French excavations at Dura-Europos".JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS 24(2019):608-622.