ALL THAT GLITTERS AND IS BLACK IS NOT OBSIDIAN! RESULTS OF MULTI-ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF NEOLITHIC ARTEFACTS FROM TELL GORZSA (HÓDMEZŐVÁSÁRHELY, HUNGARY)

The authors present the results of recent sourcing analyses conducted on 175 obsidian artefacts from Late Neolithic (Tisza culture) contexts at the tell site of Hódmezővásárhely-Gorzsa in southeastern Hungary. The artefacts were analysed using portable XRF, and the results were compared with reference measurements obtained from geological samples of known European obsidian sources. Most of the Gorzsa assemblage originated from the Carpathian 1 (C1 – Cejkov-Viničky) source area in southeastern Slovakia, with a single specimen traceable to the C2E (Mád-Erdőbénye) source in northeastern Hungary. However, four artefacts that visually resemble C2E obsidian could not be matched to any known Carpathian or European obsidian source.