2017•Americanae (AECID Library)Open access

New provenience analysis of Late Holocene archaeological obsidians from southern Patagonia (Santa Cruz province, Argentina)

Hugo Gabriel Nami, Martín Giesso, Alicia Susana Castro, Michael Dean Glascock

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X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and neutron activation analysis (NAA) methods were employed on a sample of obsidians from Santa Cruz province (southern Argentina). Results obtained from 81 specimens from two sources and a number of archaeological sites located in NE and SE Santa Cruz shows that the obsidians contain trace elements indicating diverse origins.

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Key concepts: Holocene, Archaeology, Geology, Geography