Obsidian use during the Palaeolithic in the Armenian Highlands

In this manuscript, we briefly discuss those obsidian sources most frequently utilized during the Palaeolithic in the Armenian Highlands and some of the surrounding issues (Section 2), we summarize some of the most important Palaeolithic surveys and excavations conducted during the Soviet era (Section 3), we consider the issue of lithic transport distances from the Lower to the Upper Palaeolithic during obsidian datasets from a series of recently excavated sites (Section 4), and we highlight how the large, complex obsidian sources of the Armenian Highlands offer the potential for novel insights into other early and modern hominin behaviors (Section 5).