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  • Obsidian in the Upper Palaeolithic of Iberia

  • João Zilhão, Diego E. Angelucci, François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec, Armando Lucena, Ignacio Martín-Lerma, Susana Martínez, Henrique Matias, Valentín Villaverde, Josefina Zapata
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    Antiquity / Volume 95 / Issue 382 / August 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 July 2021, pp. 865-884
    Print publication:
    August 2021
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  • Sourced from the Tyrrhenian Islands and exchanged over long distances, obsidian was used widely across prehistoric Western Europe. An obsidian core and bladelets from a newly discovered rockshelter site in south-eastern Spain, however, raised the possibility of an unrecognised mainland source of obsidian. EDXRF analysis of the Early Magdalenian finds from La Boja links them to a source 125km to the south-west. The artefacts were discarded during two brief activity phases at the site, indicating that obsidian procurement was integral to the technological choices of the site's users. The specificities of the technocomplex may explain the unique nature of this occurrence.