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    STUDIA GEOLOGIA - Issue no. Special Issue / 2009  
         
  Article:   OBSIDIAN PROVENANCE STUDIES OF TRANSYLVANIA’S NEOLITHIC TOOLS USING PIXE, MICRO-PIXE, PIGE, RBS AND XRF.

Authors:  BOGDAN CONSTANTINESCU, ROXANA BUGOI. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Obsidian is a natural volcanic glass, widely used for prehistoric stone tools and traded over long distances. The sources of the prehistoric tools in Transylvania, the North-Western part of Romania, are supposed to be in the Tokaj Mountains, the Greek islands, in Armenia and Turkish-Asia Minor. For analysing various obsidian tools supposed from the above sources we used PIXE and XRF. Eighteen archaeological samples i.e. Neolithic obsidian tools were obtained from “Tara Crişurilor” Museum and National Museum of Transylvanian History: five from Oradea region (Seleuş, Beiuş, Salca, Taşad), ten from the Cluj area (Iclod, Ţaga, Cheile Turzii, Bucin) and three from Banat (Silagiu – Buziaş) – and analysed in Bucharest. Some archaeological samples coming from Oradea region sites were also analysed by micro-PIXE at ATOMKI Debrecen.

Keywords: XRF, obsidian, Neolithic tools, Romania
  
         
     
         
         
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