GRATUZE , Bernard

Tell Hamoukar's Southern Extension, occupied during the late Chalcolithic 1-2 period and located in northern Mesopotamia, presents a unique early household craft-manufacturing site at a scale never before seen for the period. The large quantities of obsidian on the site, collected through both systematic survey and excavation, are unattested...

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La circulation de l'obsidienne dans le sud de la France au Néolithique (COM)

La circulation de l'obsidienne dans le sud de la France au Néolithique

X-ray fluorescence and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA– ICP–MS) analyses conducted on 40 obsidian samples from the Late Chalcolithic 2 levels at Tell Hamoukar and Tell Brak in north-east Syria have shown trends towards the exploitation of obsidian sources in the eastern Taurus. While the Bingöl region appears to...

Until recently, the western Arabian Peninsula has had an enigmatic role in the large-scale prehistoric exchange networks of the greater ancient Near East. New geological and archaeological data recovered from obsidian-rich zones as well as sites in south-west Arabia and beyond, have begun to elucidate the region's unprecedented position as a...

Nabro Volcano is located some 50 km from the coast in the southern Red Sea region of Eritrea. It reaches a maximum elevation of over 2200 m a.s.l. and has an 8 km-wide summit caldera with associated ignimbrites. Its first recorded eruption took place in 2011, displacing several thousand people who...

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The Red Sea is renowned as a locus of maritime activity during the early historic periods. As a resultof systematic obsidian analyses of sources and artifacts, maritime interaction in South Arabia can now be traced back to the beginning of the Neolithic period. Its increased intensity is echoed in the cultural sphere that eventually formed on...

The last decade has seen significant advancement in the geochemical fingerprinting of obsidian sources and obsidian artifacts on both sides of the Red Sea Rift. Despite the presence of large numbers of obsidian-rich volcanoes, this region's sources are poorly known, and their exploitation by human groups ...

En Méditerranée du nord-ouest, les tout premiers groupes néolithiques originaires d'Italie méridionale se sont notamment implantés dans l'arc tosco-liguro-provençal dans le courant de la première moitié du VI e millénaire AEC, dans une région où une mosaïque géologique unique rend particulièrement visibles les transferts de matières premières...

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Results of geochemical analyses of obsidian artefacts from the Neolithic site of Tell Labwe South, Lebanon

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En septembre-octobre 2011 de nouvelles recherches archéologiques et géophysiques ont été conduites à Tell Labwé Sud, le plus ancien village néolithique au Liban. Situé à une trentaine de kilomètres au nord de Baalbek, ce site avait fait l'objet de sondages réalisés par D. Kirkbride en 1966. L'objectif primaire de la campagne de 2011 était de...

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The recently discovered Nalai site is one of the Bose Basin localities, which is key to studying the earliest bifaces in China. The Nalai site has yielded an abundance of lithic artifacts, including bifaces and tektites in close association. The total fusion 40Ar/39Ar method was applied to four tektites discovered beside and contemporaneous...

Site de plein air de Nalai du paléolithique inférieur, dans le sud de la Chine, daté de 800 000 ans. Première datation argon-argon de tectites en association directe avec des bifaces en Chine. La datation par la méthode argon-argon (40 Ar/ 39 Ar) de tectites associées à des bifaces sur le site préhistorique de Nalai, localisé dans le célèbre...