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)
Ano1997
Volume32
Fascículo1
Páginas39-46
Data de publicação1997-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoArchaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0728-4896 • E-ISSN: 1834-4453
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/j.1834-4453.1997.tb00368.x
OpenAlexW2024841604
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências 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