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Bursztyndominikańskizazwyczajjest
przezroczysty,żółtoczerwonawy;surowiec.
ZezbiorówkopalńifaktoriiLaCumbre
wDominikanie©J.Fudala
Dominicanamberisusuallytransparentand
yellow-gold;rawamber.CollectionoftheLa
Cumbreminesandfactory,DominicanRepublic
©J.Fudala
inerrorascopalorfalselyasgedanite.Identifyingthesemostusuallysubfossil
resinscorrectlycanbeverydifficultandrequiresin-depthresearch.
Aproblemariseswhennamesoftheas-yetunstudiedfossilresinsareused.
WhatisthestatusofaregionaltermKamber”describedbyanadjectivetoindi-
cateitsgeographicalorigin?InsuchacaseKamber”onlyreferstoafossilresin,
butnotinthesenseofsuccinite.Forinstance,intheglobaljewellerytradeone
canencounterproductsmadeofadarkyellowtransparentfossilresinknownas
DominicanamberandotherproductsmadeofafossilresinknownasMexican
amber.Thenamesonlyindicatewheretheseresinsarefoundbutdonotreflect
theirgeneticaffinity,whichcouldbeclarifiedbyasharedorigin-basedname.
Atthebeginningofthe1990s,anewfossilresinwasdescribedinSarawak,
Malaysia,whereitisfoundinlargequantities.Itsdiscoverersgaveitthenameof
Borneoamber.Thisresin,sdepositsprovedtobemuchlargerthantheSambian
depositsofBalticamber.BorneoamberisafossilresinwhichresemblesEurope,s
glessite,althoughsomewhatdifferentparenttreeshavebeenattributedtoit.
Theterminologicalcomplexitieswhichfollowfromlanguagetraditionscan-
notbe,however,easilyresolved,whileresinswhicharefitforcraftingwilllong
continuetobedescribedasamberbythemarket.Thereisaseparateissueofthe
RussiannameforamberKyantar”whichisbeingusedinPoland.Inearlypost-
WWIIperiodethnographerAdamChętnikattemptedtointroduceitasaSlavic
term.However,researchshowsthatthenamehasaUgro-Finnicoriginandwas
adoptedbytheRussianlanguage.
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