INAA of pre-contact basalt quarries on the Samoan Island of Tutuila: a preliminary baseline for an artifact-centered provenance study

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1078-1086

  Johnson, Phillip R ^a   Pearl, Frederic B ^b   Eckert, Suzanne L ^a   James, William D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Basalt; INAA; Polynesia; Provenance study; Quarry; Samoa

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; BASALT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PROVENANCE; QUARRY;

AMERICAN SAMOA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; TUTUILA;

EID: 33947521540     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2006.09.022     Document Type: Article

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