Two Contrasting Provenances of Prehistoric Obsidian Artifacts in South Korea: Mineralogical and Geochemical Characteristics
Two provenances – Mount Baekdusan near Sino-Korean border and Kyushu of southwest Japan – are well known for Korean prehistoric obsidian artifacts. We examined the mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of the Baekdusan obsidians and the Kyushu obsidians. Though obsidians are of glassy materi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2019-04-01
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| Series: | Open Archaeology |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2019-0008 |