Journal of Open Archaeology Data (Mar 2019)

Geochemical Sourcing of New Zealand Obsidians by Portable X-Ray Fluorescence from 2011 to 2018

  • Mark D. McCoy,
  • Alex Jorgensen,
  • Hayley Glover,
  • Christopher Stevenson,
  • Brendan Kneebone,
  • Arden Cruickshank,
  • Andrew McAlister,
  • Isaac McIvor,
  • Caleb Gemmell,
  • Dion O. O’Neale,
  • Thegn N. Ladefoged

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5334/joad.52
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7

Abstract

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This dataset includes 4,582 obsidian artefacts matched to their natural geological source from 45 archaeological sites in New Zealand (Aotearoa). It is a compilation of a number of independent projects conducted in the laboratories of the University of Auckland and University of Otago from 2011 to 2018 [1–13]. It combines previously published studies [3, 5–13], an MA thesis [1], a BA(Hons) dissertation [2], a site report [4], and other previously unpublished primary data. The dataset has high reuse potential for future non-destructive studies of artefacts and social network analyses. Funding statement: This database began as part of a project funded by Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grant (UOA1619) and the support of Te Pūnaha Matatini.

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