The geochemistry of the major sources of archaeological obsidian on hokkaido island (Japan): Shirataki and oketo

Archaeometry

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 355-369

  Kuzmin, Y V ^a   Glascock, M D ^b   Izuho, M ^c  

^a SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Hokkaido island; Japan; Jomon; Neolithic; Neutron activation analysis; Obsidian; Oketo; Palaeolithic; Palaeometal; Shirataki; Sourcing

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GEOCHEMISTRY; NEOLITHIC; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; OBSIDIAN; PALEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC;

AMUR BASIN; HOKKAIDO; HONSHU; JAPAN; KURIL ISLANDS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN; SAKHALIN ISLAND; SHIRATAKA VOLCANO; TOHOKU; YAMAGATA [TOHOKU];

EID: 84875803518     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2012.00694.x     Document Type: Article

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