Material sources of basalt and obsidian artefacts from a prehistoric settlement site on Norfolk Island, South Pacific

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ID6038643
AutoresA Anderson (0000-0002-7636-7306, Division of Archaeology and Natural History, RSPAS ANU Canberra), W R Ambrose (Institute of History and Archaeology), Wal Ambrose (Division of Archaeology and Natural History, RSPAS ANU Canberra), Foss Leach (0000-0001-7785-618X, Archaeozoology Laboratory Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand Wellington), Marshall Weisler (0000-0002-2336-2544, Anthropology Department University of Otago New Zealand)
Año1997
Volumen32
Número1
Páginas39-46
Fecha de publicación1997-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArchaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0728-4896 • E-ISSN: 1834-4453
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/j.1834-4453.1997.tb00368.x
OpenAlexW2024841604
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas11

Recent discovery of a prehistoric archaeological site at Emily Bay, Norfolk Island, enables the question of settlement origins to be revisited. Analysis of a sample of basalt flakes by non‐destructive, energy‐dispersive XRF analysis indicates that there was local adze production, not merely refurbishment, suggesting that quarry and reduction sites might yet be discovered. Analysis of an obsidian blade by major elements and PIXE shows that it originated in a Raoul Island (Kermadecs) source. It is hypothesized that the colonisation history of the Norfolk group belongs with those of other temperate archipelagoes (Kermadecs, Chathams, Snares) which appear to have originated in New Zealand rather than tropical Polynesia

Archaeology · Archipelago · Basalt · Bay · Geography · Human settlement · Plateau (mathematics · Prehistory · Provenance · Settlement (finance · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Isotope Analysis in Ecology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Geology · Paleontology