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Sourcing Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Obsidian from Iraq and Iran: New Perspectives from Tell Nader and Yanik Tepe (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Renee Ford. Tristan Carter. Elizabeth Healey.

Historically Near Eastern obsidian characterisation studies have focused on south-eastern Anatolian and Levantine assemblages of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic as a means of contributing to debates upon Neolithisation. This study contributes to redressing this spatial and chronological bias, by detailing analyses of artefacts from 6th-5th millennium BC contexts in Iraq and Iran. The first assemblage comes from the new excavations at Tell Nader, a Ubaid to Assyrian period settlement near Erbil in...