Obsidian (English Wikipedia)

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Tripković, Boban (2003). "The Quality and Value In Neolithic Europe: An Alternative View on Obsidian Artifacts". South Eastern Europe Proceedings of the ESF Workshop, Sofia. 103: 119–123. Retrieved June 21, 2019.

archive.org

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 2 ("Obsidius").
P L Barnes-Svarney; T E Svarney (2004). The Handy Geology Answer Book. Visible Ink Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-1578591565.

australianmuseum.net.au

Bonetti, R.; Di Cesare, P.; Guglielmetti, A.; Malerba, F.; Migliorini, E.; Oddone, M.; Bird, J. R.; Torrence, R.; Bultitude, R. J. (November 25, 1998). "Fission track dating of obsidian source samples from the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea and eastern Australia" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 50 (3): 277–84. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.50.1998.1286. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 21, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2019.

bl.uk

"John Dee's spirit mirror – The British Library". April 1, 2020. Archived from the original on April 1, 2020. Retrieved April 1, 2020.

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Peter Roger Stuart Moorey (1999). Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: the archaeological evidence. Eisenbrauns. pp. 108–. ISBN 978-1-57506-042-2.
Brian Cotterell; Johan Kamminga (1992). Mechanics of pre-industrial technology: an introduction to the mechanics of ancient and traditional material culture. Cambridge University Press. pp. 127–. ISBN 978-0-521-42871-2. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
M H Manser. The Facts On File Dictionary of Allusions. Infobase Publishing, 2008, ISBN 0816071055.
M E Malainey. A Consumer's Guide to Archaeological Science: Analytical Techniques, Springer, 2010 ISBN 1441957030
M Martini; M Milazzo; M Piacentini; Società Italiana di Fisica (2004). Physics Methods in Archaeometry. Vol. 154. IOS Press. ISBN 978-1586034245.
Iain Morley and Colin Renfrew. The Archaeology of Measurement: Comprehending Heaven, Earth and Time in Ancient Societies, Cambridge University Press, 2010 ISBN 0521119901.
E Blake; A B Knapp (2005). The Archaeology Of Mediterranean Prehistory. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0631232681.
Prince Mikasa no Miya Takahito. Essays on Anatolian Archaeology, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1993 ISBN 3447033959.
L Romano. 6 ICAANE, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010 Volume 3 of Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East: May 5–10, 2009 ISBN 3447062177.
P R S Moorey. Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence Eisenbrauns, 1999 ISBN 1575060426.
Bunny, Sarah (April 18, 1985). "Ancient trade routes for obsidian". New Scientist.
Merrick, H.V.; Brown, F.H.; Nash, W.P. (1994). Society, Culture, and Technology in Africa Import. Vol. 11. Univ Museum Pubns. ISBN 1931707057.
J. D. Fage. The Cambridge history of Africa: From c. 1600 to c. 1790, Part 1050, Cambridge University Press, 1979 ISBN 0521215927
A. M. Pollard; Carl Heron (2008). Archaeological Chemistry. Royal Society of Chemistry. ISBN 978-0854042623.
George Robert Rapp (2002). Archaeomineralogy. Springer. ISBN 978-3540425793.
Specht, Jim (2018). "Research issues in the circum-New Guinea islands". In Cochrane, Ethan E.; Hunt, Terry L. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania. Oxford University Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-19-992507-0.
Haviland, W.A.; Prins H.E.L.; Walrath D.; McBride B. (2010). Anthropology: The Human Challenge (13 ed.). Cengage Learning. p. 196. ISBN 9780495810841. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
Manutchehr-Danai, Mohsen (March 9, 2013). Dictionary of Gems and Gemology. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9783662042885.

caltech.edu

resolver.caltech.edu

Putnam, William C. (1938). "The Mono Craters, California". Geographical Review. 28 (1): 68–82. Bibcode:1938GeoRv..28...68P. doi:10.2307/210567. JSTOR 210567. S2CID 163772761.

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Nadin, E. (2007). "The secret lives of minerals" (PDF). Engineering & Science (1): 10–20.

cnn.com

Shadbolt, Peter (April 2, 2015). "CNN Health: How Stone Age blades are still cutting it in modern surgery". CNN. Retrieved September 7, 2023.

dictionary.com

"obsidian". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d.

doi.org

Ericson, J.E.; Makishima, A.; Mackenzie, J.D.; Berger, R. (January 1975). "Chemical and physical properties of obsidian: a naturally occurring [sic] glass". Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 17 (1): 129–142. Bibcode:1975JNCS...17..129E. doi:10.1016/0022-3093(75)90120-9.
Putnam, William C. (1938). "The Mono Craters, California". Geographical Review. 28 (1): 68–82. Bibcode:1938GeoRv..28...68P. doi:10.2307/210567. JSTOR 210567. S2CID 163772761.
Binder, Didier; Gratuze, Bernard; Mouralis, Damase; Balkan-Atlı, Nur (December 1, 2011). "New investigations of the Göllüdağ obsidian lava flows system: a multi-disciplinary approach". Journal of Archaeological Science. 38 (12): 3174–3184. Bibcode:2011JArSc..38.3174B. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2011.05.014.
O'Keefe, John A. (1978). "The Tektite Problem". Scientific American. 239 (2). Munn & Company: 116–127. Bibcode:1978SciAm.239b.116O. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0878-116. JSTOR 24960359.
Liritzis, I. (2014). "Obsidian Hydration Dating". In Rink, W.; Thompson, J. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 1–23. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6326-5_39-1. ISBN 978-94-007-6326-5.
Marshall, Royal R. (October 1, 1961). "Devitrification of Natural Glass". GSA Bulletin. 72 (10): 1493–1520. Bibcode:1961GSAB...72.1493M. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1961)72[1493:DONG]2.0.CO;2.
Ma, Chi; Rossman, George (2013). "Nanomineralogy of Gemstones: From Genesis to Discovery" (PDF). Mineralogical Magazine. 77 (5): 1661. doi:10.1180/minmag.2013.077.5.13. hdl:10174/9676. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
Bonetti, R.; Di Cesare, P.; Guglielmetti, A.; Malerba, F.; Migliorini, E.; Oddone, M.; Bird, J. R.; Torrence, R.; Bultitude, R. J. (November 25, 1998). "Fission track dating of obsidian source samples from the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea and eastern Australia" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 50 (3): 277–84. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.50.1998.1286. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 21, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
Martinelli, Maria Clara; Tykot, Robert H.; Vianello, Andrea (April 20, 2019). "Lipari (Aeolian islands) obsidian in the late Neolithic. Artifacts, supply, and function". Open Archaeology. 5 (1): 46–64. doi:10.1515/opar-2019-0005. S2CID 150094926.
Brown, Keri A.; Tykot, Robert H. (August 2018). "Obsidian in the Tavoliere, Southeastern Italy — A regional study". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 20: 284–292. Bibcode:2018JArSR..20..284B. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.04.035. S2CID 134356403.
Oates, J.; McMahon, A.; Karsgaard, P.; Quntar, S. A.; Ur, J. (January 2, 2015). "Early Mesopotamian urbanism: a new view from the north" (PDF). Antiquity. 81 (313): 585–600. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00095600. S2CID 3803714.
Izuho, Masami; Sato, Hiroyumi (2007). "Archaeological obsidian studies in Hokkaido, Japan: Retrospect and prospects". Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin. 27. doi:10.7152/bippa.v27i0.11982 (inactive July 12, 2025). Retrieved March 2, 2022.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
Yellin, Joseph; Levy, Thomas E.; Rowan, Yorke M. (1996). "New Evidence on Prehistoric Trade Routes: The Obsidian Evidence from Gilat, Israel". Journal of Field Archaeology. 23 (3): 361–68. doi:10.1179/009346996791973873.
Panich, L. M. (2016). Beyond the colonial curtain: Investigating indigenous use of obsidian in Spanish California through the PXRF analysis of artifacts from Mission Santa Clara. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 5, 521–530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.01.008
Stark, Barbara L.; Boxt, Matthew A.; Gasco, Janine; González Lauck, Rebecca B.; Hedgepeth Balkin, Jessica D.; Joyce, Arthur A.; King, Stacie M.; Knight, Charles L. F.; Kruger, Robert (March 1, 2016). "Economic growth in Mesoamerica: Obsidian consumption in the coastal lowlands". Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 41: 263–282. doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2016.01.008. ISSN 0278-4165.
Mario Pino Quivido & Rayen Navarro (2005). "Geoarqueología del sitio arcaico Chan-Chan 18, costa de Valdivia: Discriminación de ambientes de ocupación humana y su relación con la transgresión marina del Holoceno Medio". Revista Geológica de Chile. 32. doi:10.4067/S0716-02082005000100004.
Naranjo, José A; Stern, Charles R (2004). "Holocene tephrochronology of the southernmost part (42°30'–45°S) of the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone". Revista Geológica de Chile. 31 (2): 225–40. doi:10.4067/S0716-02082004000200003. hdl:10533/175716. OCLC 61022562.
Disa, J. J.; Vossoughi, J.; Goldberg, N. H. (October 1993). "A comparison of obsidian and surgical steel scalpel wound healing in rats". Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 92 (5): 884–887. doi:10.1097/00006534-199392050-00015. PMID 8415970.

encyclopedia.com

obsidian. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. Oxford University Press (1996). Retrieved November 20, 2011.

etymonline.com

D Harper. obsidian. Etymology online. June 17, 2012

finescience.com

Fine Science Tools (FST). "FST product catalog". FST. Retrieved September 7, 2012.
Fine Science Tools – "Obsidian Scalpels"

geology.com

King, Hobart M. "Obsidian". Geology.com. Retrieved February 3, 2023.

goldschmidtabstracts.info

Ma, Chi; Rossman, George (2013). "Nanomineralogy of Gemstones: From Genesis to Discovery" (PDF). Mineralogical Magazine. 77 (5): 1661. doi:10.1180/minmag.2013.077.5.13. hdl:10174/9676. Retrieved May 1, 2019.

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"Perlite – Mineral Deposit Profiles". B.C. Geological Survey. Archived from the original on May 9, 2008. Retrieved November 20, 2007.

handle.net

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Ma, Chi; Rossman, George (2013). "Nanomineralogy of Gemstones: From Genesis to Discovery" (PDF). Mineralogical Magazine. 77 (5): 1661. doi:10.1180/minmag.2013.077.5.13. hdl:10174/9676. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
Naranjo, José A; Stern, Charles R (2004). "Holocene tephrochronology of the southernmost part (42°30'–45°S) of the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone". Revista Geológica de Chile. 31 (2): 225–40. doi:10.4067/S0716-02082004000200003. hdl:10533/175716. OCLC 61022562.

harvard.edu

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu

Ericson, J.E.; Makishima, A.; Mackenzie, J.D.; Berger, R. (January 1975). "Chemical and physical properties of obsidian: a naturally occurring [sic] glass". Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 17 (1): 129–142. Bibcode:1975JNCS...17..129E. doi:10.1016/0022-3093(75)90120-9.
Putnam, William C. (1938). "The Mono Craters, California". Geographical Review. 28 (1): 68–82. Bibcode:1938GeoRv..28...68P. doi:10.2307/210567. JSTOR 210567. S2CID 163772761.
Binder, Didier; Gratuze, Bernard; Mouralis, Damase; Balkan-Atlı, Nur (December 1, 2011). "New investigations of the Göllüdağ obsidian lava flows system: a multi-disciplinary approach". Journal of Archaeological Science. 38 (12): 3174–3184. Bibcode:2011JArSc..38.3174B. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2011.05.014.
O'Keefe, John A. (1978). "The Tektite Problem". Scientific American. 239 (2). Munn & Company: 116–127. Bibcode:1978SciAm.239b.116O. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0878-116. JSTOR 24960359.
Marshall, Royal R. (October 1, 1961). "Devitrification of Natural Glass". GSA Bulletin. 72 (10): 1493–1520. Bibcode:1961GSAB...72.1493M. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1961)72[1493:DONG]2.0.CO;2.
Brown, Keri A.; Tykot, Robert H. (August 2018). "Obsidian in the Tavoliere, Southeastern Italy — A regional study". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 20: 284–292. Bibcode:2018JArSR..20..284B. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.04.035. S2CID 134356403.

dash.harvard.edu

Oates, J.; McMahon, A.; Karsgaard, P.; Quntar, S. A.; Ur, J. (January 2, 2015). "Early Mesopotamian urbanism: a new view from the north" (PDF). Antiquity. 81 (313): 585–600. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00095600. S2CID 3803714.

jstor.org

Putnam, William C. (1938). "The Mono Craters, California". Geographical Review. 28 (1): 68–82. Bibcode:1938GeoRv..28...68P. doi:10.2307/210567. JSTOR 210567. S2CID 163772761.
O'Keefe, John A. (1978). "The Tektite Problem". Scientific American. 239 (2). Munn & Company: 116–127. Bibcode:1978SciAm.239b.116O. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0878-116. JSTOR 24960359.

manchester.ac.uk

research.manchester.ac.uk

Brown, Keri A.; Tykot, Robert H. (August 2018). "Obsidian in the Tavoliere, Southeastern Italy — A regional study". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 20: 284–292. Bibcode:2018JArSR..20..284B. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.04.035. S2CID 134356403.

megalithic.co.uk

Hogan, CM (2008). A. Burnham (ed.). "Morro Creek". Megalithic.co.uk. Retrieved November 20, 2011.

mindat.org

"Obsidian". Mindat.org.

museums.or.ke

National Museum of Kenya. Kariandusi Archived October 24, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 30, 2012

newscientist.com

Jo Marchant. "Scalpels and skulls point to Bronze Age brain surgery". New Scientist.

nih.gov

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Buck, BA (March 1982). "Ancient Technology in Contemporary Surgery". The Western Journal of Medicine. 136 (3): 265–269. PMC 1273673. PMID 7046256.
Disa, J. J.; Vossoughi, J.; Goldberg, N. H. (October 1993). "A comparison of obsidian and surgical steel scalpel wound healing in rats". Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 92 (5): 884–887. doi:10.1097/00006534-199392050-00015. PMID 8415970.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Buck, BA (March 1982). "Ancient Technology in Contemporary Surgery". The Western Journal of Medicine. 136 (3): 265–269. PMC 1273673. PMID 7046256.

nytimes.com

John Noble Wilford (April 5, 2010). "In Syria, a Prologue for Cities". The New York Times.

obsidianlab.com

Washington Obsidian Source Map Archived August 21, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Obsidianlab.com. Retrieved November 20, 2011.

oki-geopark.jp

"Obsidian | Oki Islands UNESCO Global Geopark".

scu.edu

scholarcommons.scu.edu

Panich, Lee; Michelini, Antonio; Shackley, M. (December 1, 2012). "Obsidian Sources of Northern Baja California: The Known and the Unknown". Faculty Publications.

semanticscholar.org

api.semanticscholar.org

Putnam, William C. (1938). "The Mono Craters, California". Geographical Review. 28 (1): 68–82. Bibcode:1938GeoRv..28...68P. doi:10.2307/210567. JSTOR 210567. S2CID 163772761.
Martinelli, Maria Clara; Tykot, Robert H.; Vianello, Andrea (April 20, 2019). "Lipari (Aeolian islands) obsidian in the late Neolithic. Artifacts, supply, and function". Open Archaeology. 5 (1): 46–64. doi:10.1515/opar-2019-0005. S2CID 150094926.
Brown, Keri A.; Tykot, Robert H. (August 2018). "Obsidian in the Tavoliere, Southeastern Italy — A regional study". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 20: 284–292. Bibcode:2018JArSR..20..284B. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.04.035. S2CID 134356403.
Oates, J.; McMahon, A.; Karsgaard, P.; Quntar, S. A.; Ur, J. (January 2, 2015). "Early Mesopotamian urbanism: a new view from the north" (PDF). Antiquity. 81 (313): 585–600. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00095600. S2CID 3803714.

sourcecatalog.com

Oregon Obsidian Sources. Sourcecatalog.com (November 15, 2011). Retrieved 2011-11-20.

springer.com

link.springer.com

Liritzis, I. (2014). "Obsidian Hydration Dating". In Rink, W.; Thompson, J. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 1–23. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6326-5_39-1. ISBN 978-94-007-6326-5.

usda.gov

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washington.edu

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Izuho, Masami; Sato, Hiroyumi (2007). "Archaeological obsidian studies in Hokkaido, Japan: Retrospect and prospects". Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin. 27. doi:10.7152/bippa.v27i0.11982 (inactive July 12, 2025). Retrieved March 2, 2022.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)

web.archive.org

"Perlite – Mineral Deposit Profiles". B.C. Geological Survey. Archived from the original on May 9, 2008. Retrieved November 20, 2007.
Bonetti, R.; Di Cesare, P.; Guglielmetti, A.; Malerba, F.; Migliorini, E.; Oddone, M.; Bird, J. R.; Torrence, R.; Bultitude, R. J. (November 25, 1998). "Fission track dating of obsidian source samples from the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea and eastern Australia" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 50 (3): 277–84. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.50.1998.1286. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 21, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
Washington Obsidian Source Map Archived August 21, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Obsidianlab.com. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
National Museum of Kenya. Kariandusi Archived October 24, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 30, 2012
"John Dee's spirit mirror – The British Library". April 1, 2020. Archived from the original on April 1, 2020. Retrieved April 1, 2020.

worldcat.org

search.worldcat.org

Stark, Barbara L.; Boxt, Matthew A.; Gasco, Janine; González Lauck, Rebecca B.; Hedgepeth Balkin, Jessica D.; Joyce, Arthur A.; King, Stacie M.; Knight, Charles L. F.; Kruger, Robert (March 1, 2016). "Economic growth in Mesoamerica: Obsidian consumption in the coastal lowlands". Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 41: 263–282. doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2016.01.008. ISSN 0278-4165.
Naranjo, José A; Stern, Charles R (2004). "Holocene tephrochronology of the southernmost part (42°30'–45°S) of the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone". Revista Geológica de Chile. 31 (2): 225–40. doi:10.4067/S0716-02082004000200003. hdl:10533/175716. OCLC 61022562.