Publications & Presentations
Publications
Campbell, S. & Healey, E. (2023). Lithics in the Household: Obsidian Use at Kenan Tepe. In J. R. Kennedy & P. Mullins (Eds.), From Households to Empires: Papers in Memory of Bradley J. Parker (pp. 79–97). Sidestone Press.
Healey, E. 2023. Out of the stores: further obsidian objects from Tell Chagar Bazar. In Finkel, I., Fraser, James and Simpson, St John (eds) ‘To Aleppo gone…’: Essays in honour of Jonathan N. Tubb. Oxford. Archaeopress: 104–111.
Healey, E. & Campbell, S. (2022) Innovation, adaptation or just a development? Alternative uses of obsidian the Early Neolithic of the Near East. In Y. Nishiaki, O. Maeda, & M. Arimura (Eds.), Tracking the Neolithic in the Near East: Lithic Perspectives on Its Origins, Development and Dispersals (pp. 123–139). Sidestone Press.
Campbell, S., Healey, E., Kuzmin, Y. & Glascock, M. D. (2021) The mirror, the magus and more: reflections on John Dee’s obsidian mirror. Antiquity, 95(384), 1547-1564.
Campbell, S., Healey, E. & Kuzmin, Y. (2021) Provenance of a group of Mexican obsidian artefacts in the British Museum. In Beyond the Glass Mountains: Papers presented for the 2019 International Obsidian Conference 27-29 May 2019 Sárospatak (pp. 151-167). Magyar Nemzeti Museum.
Healey, E. (2021). Not only a tool-stone: Other ways of using obsidian in the Near East. Journal of Lithic Studies, 8(3), 25-83.
Campbell, S., Healey, E. & Maeda, O. (2020) Profiling an unlocated source: Group 3d obsidian in the prehistoric and early historic Near East. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 33, 102533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102533
Campbell, S. & Healey, E. (2019) The Obsidian from Umm Dabaghiyah, a Proto-Hassuna site in Northern Mesopotamia, in Near Eastern Lithic Technologies on the Move: Interactions and Contexts in Neolithic Traditions, edited by L. Astruc, C. McCartney, F. Briois and V. Kassianidou, Astrom Editions, 401-413.
Nishiaki, Y., Maeda, O., Kannari, T., Nagai, M., Healey, E., Guliyev, F. & Campbell, S. (2019) Obsidian provenance analyses at Göytepe, Azerbaijan: Implications for understanding Neolithic socioeconomies in the southern Caucasus. Archaeometry, 61(4), 765-782. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12457
Campbell, S. & Healey, E. (2018) Diversity in obsidian use in the prehistoric and early historic Middle East. Quaternary International, 486(Part A), 141–154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.09.023
Campbell, S. & Healey, E. (2017) The sources of some obsidian beads found at Kish, southern Iraq, in The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory: Sourcing, Processing and Distribution, edited by T. Pereira, X., and N. Bicho, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 538-548.
Campbell, S. & Healey, E. (2016) Multiple sources: The pXRF analysis of obsidian from Kenan Tepe, S.E. Turkey. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 10, 377–389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.10.014
Frahm, E., Campbell, S. & Healey, E. (2016) Caucasus connections? New data and interpretations for Armenian obsidian in Northern Mesopotamia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 9, 543–564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.08.023
Healey, E. & Campbell, S. (2014) “Producing adornment: Evidence of different levels of expertise in the production of obsidian items of adornment at two late Neolithic communities in northern Mesopotamia“, Journal of Lithic Studies 1(2).
Healey, E. (2014) Interpreting Obsidian use in the Near East: A personal perspective. International Association for Obsidian Studies Bulletin Summer 2014.
Healey, E. (2013) Exotic, aesthetic and powerful? The non-tool use of obsidian in the late Neolithic of the Near East, in Interpreting the Late Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia, edited by O.P. Nieuwenhuyse, R. Bernbeck, P.M.M.G. Akkermans and J. Rogasch. Palma 09. Brepols, 2013, *-*.
Campbell, S. & Healey, E. (2013) The obsidian at Arpachiyah, Iraq; an integrated study. In F. Borrell, J. J. Ibáñez, & M. Molist (Eds.), Stone Tools in Transition: From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming Societies in the Near East (pp. 529–542). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Campbell, S. & Healey, E. (2013) “The obsidian at Arpachiyah, Iraq; an integrated study”, in F. Borrell, J. J. Ibáñez and M. Molist (ed.) Stone Tools in Transition: From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming Societies in the Near East. Barcelona. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: 529-542.
Healey, E. (2011) Why do people use exotic raw materials? The case of obsidian in the Near East during the Halaf Period, in Saville, A. (ed.), Flint and Stone in the Neolithic Period. Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 11, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2011, 196- 233.
Maeda, O. (2011) The social roles of the use of flint and obsidian artefacts at Salaat Cami Yani in the upper Tigris valley. In E. Healey, S. Campbell, & O. Maeda (Eds.), The State of the Stone: Terminologies, COntinuities and Contexts in Near Eastern Lithic Studies (pp. 317–326). ex oriente.
Maeda, O. (2010) Recent Studies on the Use of Obsidian in the Neolithic Near East. Journal of West Asian Archaeology, 11, 67–79.
Healey, E. & Campbell, S. (2009) “The Challenge of Characterising Large Assemblages of Exotic Materials: a case study of the obsidian from Domuztepe, SE Turkey“, Internet Archaeology 26.
Healey, E. (2001) “The role of obsidian at the Halaf site of Domuztepe, S.E. Anatolia”, in I. Caneva, C. Lemorini, D. Zampetti and P. Biag (ed.) Beyond Tools. Redefining the PPN Lithic Assemblages of the Levant. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on PPN Chipped Lithic Industries (Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Nov. 1998). Berlin. Ex oriente: 389-398.
Conference presentations and posters
Campbell, S., Healey, E., Maeda, O., Arimura, M., Gasparyan, B. & Petrosyan, A. “River sources and non-local obsidian: interactions between prehistoric communities and raw materials in the Near East”, International Obsidian Conference 2023, Engaru, Japan, July 2023.
Campbell, S., Healey, E. & Maeda, O. “Sixty years of obsidian sourcing: Legacy data and issues of compatibility and curation”, 10th International Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East. Copenhagen, October 2022.
Campbell, S., Healey, E. & Maeda, O. “Obsidian in the Near East: New Challenges and Future Directions”, International Obsidian Conference 2021, 30 April-2 May 2021.
Campbell, S., Healey, E. & Maeda, O. “Obsidian in the Near East: new studies and future directions”, BANEA Oxford, 9-11 January 2020.
Campbell, S. & Healey, E. “Innovation, adaptation or development? The non-tool use of obsidian in the PPN”. Poster. 9th International Conference of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East (PPN9), Tokyo 12-16 November 2019.
Campbell, S., Healey, E. & Maeda, O. “Big Data! Obsidian in the Levant”. 9th International Conference of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East (PPN9), Tokyo 12-16 November 2019.
Campbell, S., Kuzmin, Y.V., Healey, E. & Glascock, M.D. “Reflection of the magus: The provenance of an obsidian mirror associated with the sixteenth century polymath, John Dee”. International Obsidian Conference, Budapest, 27-29 May 2019.
Karakoç, M., Campbell, S. & Healey, E. “The Obsidian assemblage from Sofular Höyük, an Early Neolithic Site in Central Anatolia” BANEA Liverpool, 22-24 February 2019.
Maeda, O. Campbell, S. & Healey, E. “Obsidian in the Levant: New provenance studies”. European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona, 5-8 September 2018.
Coşkunsu, G., Iovino, M.R. & Healey, E. “Purpose Unknown: A Study of Reflective Mirror-like Objects of Obsidian Found in Anatolia and the Near East”, 18th UISPP (The International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences/Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques), Paris, 4-9 June 2018.
Healey, E., Campbell, S. & Maeda, O. “Provenancing obsidian: a perspective from the Near East: Majority and minority sources”. 11th International Symposium on Knappable Materials, “From toolstone to stone tools” Buenos Aires, 7-12 November 2017.
Campbell, S. and Healey, E. “Large scale provenance analysis of obsidian from two sites in northern Mesopotamia”. Poster. International Obsidian Conference, Lipari, 1-3 June 2016.
Campbell, S. and Healey, E. “Long-term continuities and discontinuities in obsidian use: a view from Iraq”. 8th Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East, Nicosia, November 23- 27 2016.