Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Keywords
Antiparos, obsidian provenance, WD-XRF, SEM-EDS, non-destructive analyses
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2019-0003
Abstract
The island of Antiparos belongs to the Aegean volcanic arc. The obsidian outcrops here contain pieces of excellent tool-making quality, but of small size making the raw material less attractive. Geological samples collected at Soros beach, at Blaco and Mastichi, in the southern part of the island, were analysed using Optical Microscopy, XRF (whole rock) and SEM-EDS (glass and microliths-microphenocrysts). The results obtained demonstrate the potential for distinguishing the Antiparos obsidian from other major central-western Mediterranean sources in an absolutely non-destructive way, using an XRF spectrometer or alternatively with an SEM equipped with an ED spectrometer.
Rights Information
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Open Archaeology, v. 5, issue 1, p. 18-30
Scholar Commons Citation
Micheletti, F.; Pallara, M.; Muntoni, I. M.; and Tykot, R. H., "Petroarchaeometric Data on Antiparos Obsidian (Greece) for Provenance Study by SEM-EDS and XRF" (2019). Anthropology Faculty Publications. 34.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/ant_facpub/34
