89722 20200922122726.0 doi 10.1111/arcm.12494 sideral 115493 ART-2019-115493 eng (orcid)0000-0001-8959-6733 Sánchez de la Torre, M. Universidad de Zaragoza Geochemical fingerprinting of Monegros cherts: redefining the origin of a prehistoric tracer 2019 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The geographical name of Monegros has traditionally been used to describe a high-quality, dark-coloured chert originating in a carbonate lacustrine environment, being one of the most important long-distance tracers in south-west Europe during prehistory. This chert type outcrops in the Monegros region, situated in the Ebro Basin (north-eastern Iberia), but not only there, as cherts with the same descriptions are found in other regions, some far from the homonymous area. Nevertheless, prehistorians working on the characterization of lithic sources have frequently used the term ‘Monegros' to define this chert, basing their attributions solely on macroscopic descriptions. These are not sufficient as they do not allow cherts from the Monegros region to be distinguished from cherts from other regions. In this study, the area where Monegros cherts outcrop was delimited and fieldwork was carried out to identify the origin of the geological formations and the preserved outcrops. The classic approach has proved to be insufficient for this purpose, so geochemical fingerprinting using energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (ED-XRF) spectroscopy was performed. The results obtained after this first geochemical approach show that some differences can be found between the different formations in the Monegros region in terms of their major and minor components. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FJCI-2016-27911 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/HAR2017-85023-P info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/RYC-2013-12613 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 1.519 2019 CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL 64 / 86 = 0.744 2019 Q3 T3 GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY 141 / 198 = 0.712 2019 Q3 T3 CHEMISTRY, INORGANIC & NUCLEAR 28 / 45 = 0.622 2019 Q3 T2 0.708 2019 History 2019 Q1 Archeology 2019 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion (orcid)0000-0001-9839-9758 García-Simón, L. M. Le Bourdonnec, F.-X. (orcid)0000-0003-3894-7112 Domingo, R. Universidad de Zaragoza 3000 695 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ciencias de la Antigüed. Área Prehistoria 61, 6 (2019), 1233-1245 Archaeometry Archaeometry 0003-813X 874726 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/89722/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 317843 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/89722/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:89722 articulos driver 2020-09-22-12:21:11 ARTICLE