Title:
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Identifying the Ethiopian origin of the obsidian found in Upper Egypt (Naqada period) and the most likely exchange routes
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Author:
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Giménez Izquierdo, Francisco Javier
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Other authors:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Química; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. SETRI - Grup de Tècniques de Separació i Tractament de Residus Industrials |
Abstract:
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The absence of obsidian sources in Egypt implies that obsidian excavated in f ourth millennium BC Upper Egyptian sites arrived to Egypt from long distances. This work develops an obsidian provenance study , based on the obsidian chemical composition that permit s to determine that obsidian s found in Egypt proceed ed from neither Anatolia no r the Arabian Peninsula . On the contrary, Egyptian obsidians have similar compositions to obsidians from the Porc Epic cave Ethiopian site . Considering the evolution of East African Paleolithic and Neolithic source - site distances, the most likely sources w ere at less than 250 km from Porc Epic cave , in the Ethiopian Rift Valley. The results of the study permit to propose that terrestrial and/or Nilotic exchange routes were more likely than maritime routes involving the Red Sea and the coasts of Eritrea and the Arabi an Peninsula. The “down the line” exchange model w ould incorporate the Gash Delta and the Nubian A - Group |
Abstract:
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Peer Reviewed |
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria química -Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Recursos generals::Història -Egyptology -Obsidian -Ethiopia -Egiptologia -Obsidiana -Etiòpia |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
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Article - Submitted version Article |
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