L'Obsidienne: un témoin d'échanges en Méditerrannée préhistorique. Antiquité (Carthago)

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and commentary of three previously unpublished letters

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Wine and civilization

L'Obsidienne: un témoin d'échanges en Méditerrannée préhistorique. Antiquité (Carthago)This intensely black, vitreous volcanic rock, once cut, is the sharpest of all existing stones. Its technical qualities, for making effective, but also aesthetic, tools, made obsidian a precious material, a trade commodity valued throughout the prehistoric Mediterranean. From 6000 BC, the rare obsidian deposits underwent organized, large scale exploitation: real production centers emerged and their products spread throughout the Mediterranean. How was