OBSIDIAN CONSUMPTION IN THE LATE PLEISTOCENE – EARLY HOLOCENE AEGEAN: CONTEXTUALISING NEW DATA FROM MESOLITHIC CRETE

This paper details the characterisation of four obsidian artefacts from the Mesolithic site of Livari Skiadi, one of only a handful of such pre-Neolithic sites on Crete. Elemental analysis using EDXRF sources the raw materials to Sta Nychia on Melos; in concert with other data, it can be suggested that this was the preferred Melian source for Late Pleistocene – Early Holocene populations. The Livari material represents the earliest Melian …