The procurement of obsidian at Arslantepe (Eastern Anatolia) during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. Connections with Anatolia and Caucasus
Arslantepe is a hoyük (= tell) located within the fertile Malatya Plain, near the right bank of the
Euphrates River. The site is excavated since more than 55 years by the Italian Sapienza University archaeologists
and reveals periods from at least the sixth millennium BCE until the final destruction of the
Neo-Hittite town. This long sequence records the changing relations and connections with various civilizations
and regions of the Near East.
Using the chemical characterization of a large group of artefacts (388 analysed), we propose, in this