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Title: | Obsidian economy on the Cauria Plateau (South Corsica, Middle Neolithic): New evidence from Renaghju and I Stantari | Contributor(s): | Orange, Marie (author) ; Le Bourdonnec, Francois-Xavier (author); D'Anna, Andre (author); Tramoni, Pascal (author); Luglie, Carlo (author); Bellot-Gurlet, Ludovic (author); Scheffers, Anja (author); Marchesi, Henri (author); Guendon, Jean-Louis (author); Joannes-Boyau, Renaud (author) | Publication Date: | 2018-02-22 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.12.033 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/27844 | Abstract: | This paper aims to study and compare the obsidian economies of Renaghju and I Stantari, two neighbouring Neolithic sites located on the Cauria plateau (south-western Corsica). The occupation phase 3 of Renaghju and phase 1 of I Stantari, both attributed to the Middle Neolithic (fifth millennium BC), have provided respectively 112 and 99 obsidian artefacts. With the aim of completing our rather lacunary knowledge of the obsidian consumption behaviours in place in Corsica during this period, the entire assemblages have been geochemically characterised virtually non-destructively using LA-ICP-MS at SOLARIS (Southern Cross University [SCU]). Our analyses revealed that, while the obsidian raw materials were exclusively sourced from the Monte Arci complex in Sardinia (SA, SB2, and SC sub-types only), rather different consumption patterns are observed for the two sites despite their comparable nature (megalithic sites) and geographical proximity (400m apart). These differences in obsidian consumption on adjacent sites could be explained by their divergent functions (ceremonial site [Renaghju] vs. ceremonial locus and large settlement [I Stantari]), or eventually point towards the need for a readjustment of the chronological attribution of the I Stantari phase 1 occupation level. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Grant Details: | ARC/DP140100919 | Source of Publication: | Quaternary International, 467(Part B), p. 323-331 | Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1873-4553 1040-6182 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210102 Archaeological Science 210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430101 Archaeological science 430104 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology 950504 Understanding Europe's Past |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology 130704 Understanding Europe’s past |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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