The demise of a monopoly
Implications of geochemical characterisation of a stemmed obsidian tool from the Bishop Museum collections
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21099274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mara A Mulrooney (0000-0002-8020-696X, Bernice P. Bishop Museum), Mara Mulrooney (Anthropology Department Bishop Museum 1525 Bernice Street Honolulu HI 96817 USA), Robin Torrence (0000-0001-8519-2395, Australian Museum Research Institute Australian Museum 6 College Street Sydney NSW 2010 Australia), Andrew Mcalister (0000-0002-6653-6081, Anthropology, School of Social Sciences University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland 1142 New Zealand) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 62-69 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0728-4896 • E-ISSN: 1834-4453 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/arco.5069 |
| OpenAlex | W1939072438 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 12 |
Geochemical analysis using portable X‐ray fluorescence (pXRF) shows that a large stemmed tool in the Bishop Museum, thought at one time to be a mata‘a from Rapa Nui, is composed of obsidian from the Mopir outcrops on New Britain, Papua New Guinea. As the first large, ceremonial stemmed tool from this quarry, it challenges the hypothesis that production was limited to one region, therefore suggesting that a more complex set of social networks operated in the period prior to 3000 BP in the Bismarck Archipelago
Archaeology · Archipelago · Art · Demise · Ethnology · Geography · New guinea · Outcrop · Prehistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology · Paleontology
Obsidian and volcanic glass artifact evidence for long-distance voyaging to the Polynesian Outlier island of Tikopia
Integrating Research and Collections Management
On provenance studies of New Zealand obsidians
The archaeological documentation and geochemistry of the Rua Tokitoki adze quarry and the Poike fine‐grain basalt source on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Stemmed Tools, Social Interaction, and Voyaging in Early–Mid Holocene Papua New Guinea
Unexpected uses for obsidian
Obsidian Network Patterns in Melanesia – Sources, Characterisation and Distribution
Valuable and Useful
Obsidian sources at Mopir, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea
Pacific obsidian sourcing by portable XRF
Mid-Holocene Social Interaction in Melanesia
Sourcing Rapa Nui mata'a from the collections of Bishop Museum using non-destructive pXRF
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2020 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |