Hunter-fisher-gatherer river transportation: Insights from sourcing the obsidian of Hasankeyf Höyük, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A village on the Upper Tigris (SE Turkey)

As a means of contributing to discussions on regional diversity in the earliest Neolithic lifeways of the Fertile Crescent (10th millennium cal BC), this article presents an EDXRF-based sourcing study of 332 obsidian artifacts from the hunter-fisher-gatherer village of Hasankeyf Höyük in southeastern Anatolia. While the techno-typological choices detailed conform largely to a pre-defined Upper Tigris cultural tradition, the distinctions in raw …