Cross-cultural interaction on Wuvulu Island, Papua New Guinea: The perspective from use-wear and residue analyses of turtle bone artifacts

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2911-2919

  Kononenko, Nina ^a,b   Torrence, Robin ^a,b   Barton, Huw ^c   Hennell, Ariane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bone tools; Cross cultural contact; Ethnographic museum collections; Hand held microscope; Papua new Guinea; Residue analysis; Use wear

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; BONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MICROSCOPY; TOOL USE; TURTLE;

CAROLINE ISLANDS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

GALIUM APARINE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 77956178639     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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