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  1. Ten seconds in the field: rapid Armenian obsidian sourcing with portable XRF to inform excavations and surveys

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, January 2014, Elsevier

    Boris Zareh Gasparyan, Dr Ellery Frahm

  2. Buying local or ancient outsourcing? Locating production of prismatic obsidian blades in Bronze-Age Northern Mesopotamia

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Ellery Frahm

  3. From flow to quarry: magnetic properties of obsidian and changing the scale of archaeological sourcing

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Ellery Frahm

  4. Environment and collapse: Eastern Anatolian obsidians at Urkesh (Tell Mozan, Syria) and the third-millennium Mesopotamian urban crisis

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, April 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Ellery Frahm

  5. Empires and resources: Central Anatolian obsidian at Urkesh (Tell Mozan, Syria) during the Akkadian period

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, February 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Ellery Frahm

  6. Validity of “off-the-shelf” handheld portable XRF for sourcing Near Eastern obsidian chip debris

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, February 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Ellery Frahm

  7. Is obsidian sourcing about geochemistry or archaeology? A reply to Speakman and Shackley

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, February 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Ellery Frahm

  8. The technological versus methodological revolution of portable XRF in archaeology

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, February 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Ellery Frahm