Raw material choices and technical practices as indices of cultural change: Characterizing obsidian consumption at ‘Mycenaean’ Quartier Nu, Malia (Crete)

This paper takes a practice-based approach to the study of cultural identity, focusing on how raw material and technical choices involved in the production of quotidian tools served to both reproduce, and reflect a social group's very way of being. We then consider the (dis)continuity of obsidian blade-making traditions from Middle-Late Bronze Age Malia (north-central Crete), i.e., before and after a period of island-wide destructions, and …