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- Title
The demise of a monopoly: Implications of geochemical characterisation of a stemmed obsidian tool from the Bishop Museum collections.
- Authors
MULROONEY, MARA; TORRENCE, ROBIN; McALISTER, ANDREW
- Abstract
ABSTRACT 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.
- Subjects
ANALYTICAL geochemistry; X-ray fluorescence; BERNICE Pauahi Bishop Museum; OBSIDIAN; ARCHAEOLOGICAL research
- Publication
Archaeology in Oceania, 2016, Vol 51, Issue 1, p62
- ISSN
0728-4896
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/arco.5069