Provenance and technology of lithic artifacts from the Teouma Lapita site, Vanuatu

Fifty-six obsidian artifacts and 141 non-obsidian artifacts were excavated in three field seasons at Teouma, Efate Island, central Vanuatu. Using LA-ICP-MS the majority of the obsidian artifacts were provenienced to the obsidian subsource of Kutau/Bao on

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Reepmeyer, Christian, Spriggs, Matthew, Bedford, Stuart, Ambrose, Wallace
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: University of Hawaii Press
Subjects:
Keywords: artifact
chemical analysis
colonization
geochemistry
obsidian
provenance
quantitative analysis
Banks Island
Canada
Northwest Territories
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands [(ISG) Melanesia]
Vanuatu
West New Britain Colonization
Lapita
Obsidian exchange
Provenance studies
Western Melanesia
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1885/70503
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Summary:Fifty-six obsidian artifacts and 141 non-obsidian artifacts were excavated in three field seasons at Teouma, Efate Island, central Vanuatu. Using LA-ICP-MS the majority of the obsidian artifacts were provenienced to the obsidian subsource of Kutau/Bao on

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