Sources of Archaeological Obsidian on Sakhalin Island (Russian Far East) |
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| Institution: | 1. Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Radio St. 7, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia;2. Research Reactor Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, U.S.A.;3. Institute of Environmental Studies (c/o Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Letters), University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan;1. School of Chemical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, PR China;2. School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, PR China;3. Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6845, Australia;4. Department of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin 300387, PR China;1. Department of Geology (B20), Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium;2. Laboratoire de Géologie, Université Blaise Pascal, 5 Rue Kessler, 63038 Clermont-Ferrand, France;3. Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium;1. Department of Marine Environmental Informatics, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan;2. Institute of Marine Environment and Ecology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan;3. Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan;1. Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, P.O. Box 7803, N-5020 Bergen, Norway;2. Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, N-9296 Tromsø, Norway |
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| Abstract: | Instrumental neutron activation analysis was performed on 79 obsidian tools and flakes from 35 sites on Sakhalin Island dating from Upper Paleolithic (c. 19,000 bp ) to Early Iron Age (c. 2000–800 bp ). Due to the absence of volcanic glass on Sakhalin Island, raw materials from the nearest obsidian sources on Hokkaido Island, such as Oketo, Shirataki, Tokachi-Mitsumata, and Akaigawa, were also analysed. A strong correlation between the chemical compositions of obsidian artefacts from Sakhalin and volcanic glass sources from Hokkaido was discovered. In particular, the Oketo and Shirataki sources were used for tool manufacturing throughout all of Sakhalin Island's prehistory. The distances between sources and archaeological sites range from 200–1000 km. The intensive exchange of raw materials continued and even intensified after the appearance of the La Pérouse (Soya) Strait between Hokkaido and Sakhalin about 10,000–8000 bp. The Sakhalin Island populations were deeply involved in the obsidian exchange network centered on Hokkaido. |
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