L'Obsidienne: un témoin d'échanges en Méditerrannée préhistorique. Antiquité an opportunity for Tacitus to

an opportunity for Tacitus to paint the dark side of tyranny

Ce livre d'un grand savant est un roman policier de haute culture

(Carthago)

XXIIIrd supplement to Gallia

L'Obsidienne: un témoin d'échanges en Méditerrannée préhistorique. Antiquité an opportunity for Tacitus toThis 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