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Obsidian and ancient manufactured glasses /

This edited volume offers archaeologists and archaeometrists the latest technical information, the fundamentals of provenance studies, instrumentation used in these investigations, and strategies for the dating and interpretation of archaeological materia.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Liritzis, Ioannis, Stevenson, Christopher M. (Christopher Moore), 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Aspects of secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) depth profiling for obsidian hydration dating / Steven W. Novak and Christopher M. Stevenson
  • Obsidian hydration chronometrics using SIMS and optical methods from 26-year temperature-controlled exposures / Wallace Ambrose and Steven W. Novak
  • The SIMS-SS obsidian hydration dating method / Ioannis Liritzis and Nikolaos Laskaris
  • Temperature correction for obsidian hydration dating / Alexander K. Rogers
  • Obsidian dating and source exploitation studies in Africa : implications for the evolution of human behavior / Stanley H. Ambrose
  • Provenance of Peruvian Wari obsidian : comparing INAA, LA-ICP-MS, and portable XRF / Patrick Ryan Williams, Laure Dussubieux, and Donna J. Nash
  • New perspectives on obsidian procurement and exchange at Tiwanaku, Bolivia / Michael D. Glascock and Martin Giesso
  • Volcanic glass procurement and use in the late Paleolithic, Central Primorye, Far East Russia / Trudy Doelman, Robin Torrence, Vladimir Popov, Nikolai Kluyev, and Igor Sleptsov
  • Obsidian provenance at several Italian and Corsican archaeological sites using the non-destructive x-ray fluorescence method / Anna Maria De Francesco, Marco Bocci, Gino Mirocle Crisci, and Vincenzo Francaviglia
  • Polynesian volcanic glass : uses, sourcing, and distribution / Marshall Weisler
  • Glass vessels in Sub-saharan Africa : a compositional study of samples from Mtwapa, Kenya / Laure Dussubieux and Chapurukha M. Kusimba
  • On the provenance of Roman glasses / Caroline M. Jackson
  • Characterization and provenance of archaeological glass artifacts from mainland and Aegean Greece / Konstantinos G. Beltsios, Artemios Oikonomou, Nikolaos Zacharias, and Pavlos Triantafyllidis
  • The provenance of ancient man-made glass : raw materials and the use of chemical and isotopic analytical techniques / Julian Henderson
  • Thoughts on natural and manufactured glass studies in a 21st-century archaeology / M. Steven Shackley.