@article{c303dfe8028641d18376214bee38700d,
title = "Long distance trinket trade: Early Bronze Age obsidian from the Negev",
abstract = "The discovery of three small obsidian flakes at the Camel Site in the central Negev, Israel, constitutes the first discovery of obsidian in Early Bronze Age contexts in the Negev and Sinai. Obsidian hydration analysis and X-ray microprobe analysis confirm the association of the artifacts with the site and the period, and indicate origins in Eastern Anatolia, in significant contrast to the exclusively Central Anatolian source of Southern PPNB obsidian. The structure of the obsidian trade system in the Early Bronze Age seems to contrast significantly with its Neolithic predecessor, and may be related to a system of pastoral nomadic exchange.",
keywords = "Anatolia, Early Bronze Age, Exchange, Hydration, Negev, Obsidian, Pastoral nomadism, X-ray microprobe",
author = "Rosen, {Steven A.} and Tykot, {Robert H.} and Michael Gottesman",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to Felix Burian for allowing us to sample five artifacts from Nahal Lavan 109 for hydration comparison purposes. Excavations at the Camel Site were conducted with support from the Jo Alon Center of Bedouin Research, a grant to Benjamin Saidel from the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropology Research (used for doctoral research), and moneys from the Ben-Gurion University Department of Research Contracts. Initial analyses were undertaken while the lead author was the Cotsen Fellow at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. Isaac Gilead was kind enough to read a draft of the manuscript, and Avi Gopher provided valuable discussions on ideas presented here. Two anonymous reviewers provided important comments which significantly improved both the content and the clarity of the paper. The photographs of the obsidian were taken by Alter Fogel of BGU. The map and the site plan were prepared by Patrice Kaminsky, also of BGU. A basic OHD bibliography is available courtesy of MG at http://www.peak.org/obsidian/index.html . ",
year = "2005",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.jas.2005.01.001",
language = "English",
volume = "32",
pages = "775--784",
journal = "Journal of Archaeological Science",
issn = "0305-4403",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "5",
}