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Obsidian economy on the Cauria Plateau (South Corsica, Middle Neolithic): New evidence from Renaghju and I Stantari
Quaternary International, Vol.467(Part B), pp.323-331
22/02/2018
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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 (400 m 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.
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- Title
- Obsidian economy on the Cauria Plateau (South Corsica, Middle Neolithic): New evidence from Renaghju and I Stantari
- Creators
- Marie Orange - Université Bordeaux-MontaigneFrançois-Xavier Le Bourdonnec - Université Bordeaux-MontaigneAndré D'Anna - Aix-Marseille UniversityPascal Tramoni - Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques PréventivesCarlo Lugliè - University of CagliariLudovic Bellot-Gurlet - Sorbonne UniversitéAnja Scheffers - Southern Cross UniversityHenri Marchesi - DRAC/SRA de Languedoc-Roussillon, Hôtel de Grave, 5 rue Salle-l'Évêque, 34000, Montpellier, FranceJean-Louis Guendon - Aix-Marseille UniversityRenaud Joannes-Boyau - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Quaternary International, Vol.467(Part B), pp.323-331
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Grant note
- The fieldworks were funded by grants from the Collectivite Territoriale de Corse and the PCR ‘Matieres premieres lithiques en Corse: territoires et interactions culturelles au Neolithique'’. Marie Orange's PhD was funded by a Postgraduate scholarship from SCU and partly from the Australian Research Council Discovery grant [DP140100919]; her time at the CRP2A facility in France was financed by a PSE project (Universite Bordeaux Montaigne), 'Etudes de provenance de l’obsidienne prehistorique: de l'importance d’une comparaison inter-laboratoire et inter-methodes'.
- Identifiers
- 991012927060102368
- Copyright
- © 2017 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
- Academic Unit
- School of Environment, Science and Engineering; Science; Southern Cross GeoScience; Faculty of Science and Engineering; National Centre for Flood Research
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article