Analysis of Organic Compounds: Applications in Archaeology and Earth Science

Oliwia Grafka1, Dagmara H. Werra2, Rafał Siuda1

1 Warsaw University, Faculty of Geology, Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warszawa, Poland, Email: oliwia.grafka@uw.edu.pl; rsiuda@uw.edu.pl
2 Autonomous Research Laboratory for Prehistoric Flint Mining, The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Solidarności 105, 00-140 Warszawa, Poland. werra@iaepan.edu.pl


Cite as Grafka, O., Werra, D.H. & Siuda, R. (2015). Analysis of Organic Compounds: Applications in Archaeology and Earth Science. Litikum – Journal of the Lithic Research Roundtable, 3, pp. 27–38. https://doi.org/10.23898/litikuma0010

Abstract. Analysis of molecular composition of organic matter in lithics can determine correlations between organic matter and rock source. The paper presents the possibilities and limitations of using this method in Earth Sciences and Archaeology.

This study was presented at the 11th SKAM Lithic Workshop: the multifaceted biface – Bifacial technology in Prehistory. 20th-22nd of October, 2014, Miskolc, Hungary. The conference papers are published in the Litikum Journal volumes as special contributions. Informations about the conference as well as the abstract book are available on the SKAM 2014 website: http://skam.pannontenger.hu

Keywords: Flint, Analyses of molecular composition of organic compounds, Archaeology, Earth science

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