Özet:
During prehistoric times, due to its natural structure and impressive color,
obsidian was a common material for tool production. As a result of chemical
analyses, scientists are capable for source analyses on obsidians which have unique
elemental compositions in every different sources. By means of these analyses,
which obsidian sources were exploited to produce obsidian tools can be identified.
This information is significant for archaeologists in the process of realizing interregional
connections.
Cappadocia region is one of the significant obsidian sources in the Near
East. Cappadocian obsidians were exploited and manufactured by local Pre-Pottery
Neolithic sites and they were diffused in Syria, Levant and Cyprus. The
identification of Cappadocian obsidians in different regions of the Near East is
important to show the connections between Syria, Levant, Cyprus and Cappadocia
in 10.000 years ago.