Strategies for obtaining obsidian in pre-European contact era New Zealand

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  McCoy, Mark D ^a   Carpenter, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL PERIOD; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LITHIC TECHNOLOGY; MAORI; MATERIALS; NEW ZEALAND; OBSIDIAN; PROPERTY RIGHTS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIETY; TECHNOLOGY; VOLCANO; WAR;

EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GLASS; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; ISLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; SILICATES;

EID: 84897419440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084302     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Carter T, Grant S, Kartal M, Coskun A, Ozkaya V (2013) Networks and Neolithisation: sourcing obsidian from Kortik Tepe (SE Anatolia). J Archaeol Sci 40:556-569.
2. Sheppard P, Trichereau B, Milicich C (2010) Pacific obsidian sourcing by portable XRF. Archaeol. Oceania 45:21-30.
3. Walter R, Jacomb C, Bowron-Muth S (2010) Colonisation, mobility and exchange in New Zealand prehistory. Antiquity 84:497-513.
4. Seelenfreund A, Bollong C (1989) The sourcing of New Zealand obsidian artefacts using energy dispersive XRF spectroscopy. In: Sutton DG, editor. Saying So Doesn't Make It So: Papers in Honour of B. Foss Leach. Dunedin: New Zealand Archaeological Association. 168-189.
5. Schmidt M (1996) The Commencement of Pa construction in New Zealand Prehistory. J Polynes Soc 105:441-460.
6. Empson L, Flenley J, Sheppard P (2002) A dated pollen record of vegetation change on Mayor Island (Tuhua) throughout the last 3000 years. Global and Planetary Change 33: 329-37.
7. Kawharu IH (1977) Maori Land Tenure: Studies of a changing institution. Oxford: Claredon Press.
8. Kawharu M (2000) Kaitiakitanga: a Maori anthropological perspective of the Maori socio-environmental ethic of resource management. J Polynes Soc 109: 349-370.
9. Mauss M (1990 [1950]) The Gift: The form and reason for exchange in archaic societies. New York: W.W. Norton.
10. Davidson J (2011) Archaeological investigations at Maungarei: a large Maori settlement on a volcanic cone in Auckland, New Zealand. Tuhinga 22:19-100.
11. Carpenter J P-D (2009) Smugglers and Bream Head Track Upgrade. Preliminary Report for HPT Authority 2007/97. Unpublished report for the Department of Conservation. Geometria Ltd, Whangarei.
12. Moore PR (1982) Obsidian deposits at Huruiki, Northland. New Zealand Archaeological Association newsletter 25: 240-246.
13. Carpenter J P-D (2010) Archaeological Monitoring of Archaeological Site Q06/567. Preliminary Report. Unpublished report for the Whangarei District Council. Geometria Ltd, Whangarei.
14. Andrefsky W (2005) Lithics: Macroscopic approaches to analysis. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
15. McCoy MD, Mills PR, Lundblad S, Rieth T, Kahn JG, et al. (2011) A Cost Surface Model of Volcanic Glass Quarrying and Exchange in Hawai'i. J Archaeol Sci 38:2547-2560.
16. Sheppard PJ (2004) Moving Stones: comments on the archaeology of spatial interaction in New Zealand. In: Holdaway S, Furey L, editors. Change Through Time: 50 years of New Zealand archaeology. Auckland: New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph 26. 147-168.
17. Cruickshank A (2011) A qualitative and quantitative analysis of the obsidian sources on Aotea (Great Barrier Island), and their archaeological significance. Unpublished MA thesis. Auckland: University of Auckland.
18. McCoy MD, Ladefoged TN, Blanshard A, Jorgensen A. (2010) Reconstructing lithic supply zones and procurement areas: an example from the Bay of Islands, Northland, New Zealand. J Pacific Archaeology 1:174-183.
19. Mosley B, McCoy MD (2010) Sourcing Obsidian and Pitchstone from the Wakanui Site, Canterbury, New Zealand. Rapa Nui Journal 24(2):6-15.
20. Sheppard PJ, Irwin GJ, Lin SC, McCaffrey CP (2011) Characterization of New Zealand obsidian using PXRF. J Archaeol Sci 38:45-56.
21. Speakman RJ, (2012) Evaluation of Bruker's Tracer Family Factory Obsidian Calibration for Handheld Portable XRF Studies of Obsidian. Report prepared for Bruker AXS, Kennewick, WA. Available: http://www.bruker-axs.com/fileadmin/user- upload/PDFse/handhelds/Bruker-Obsidian-Report.pdf.
22. Moore PR (2013) Obsidian sources of the Coromandel Volcanic Zone, northern New Zealand. J Roy Soc NZ 43:38-57.
23. Ward GK (1972) Obsidian and New Zealand archaeology: A paradigm for sourcing artefact assemblages using X-ray fluorescence spectrography. Unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Otago.
24. Harris J (2012) Archaeological Investigations at Q07/751, 4 Ocean Beach Road, Urquharts Bay. Unpublished report on file with New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
25. Phillips C, Druskovich B (2009) Archaeological Investigation, Midden Q07/571, 2567 Whangarei Heads Road, Urquharts Bay: Historic Places Authority 2007/25. Unpublished report on file with New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
26. Renfrew C, Cann JR, Dixon JE (1968) Further analysis of Near Eastern obsidians. Proc Prehist Soc 32: 30-72.
27. Hodder I, Orton C (1976) Spatial analysis in archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
28. Renfrew C (1977) Alternative models for exchange and spatial distribution. In: Earle TK, Ericson JE, editors. Exchange Systems in Prehistory. New York: Academic Press, 71-90.
29. Earle TK, Ericson JE, eds. (1977) Exchange Systems in Prehistory. New York: Academic Press.
30. Ericson JE, Earle TK, editors. (1982) Contexts for Prehistoric Exchange. New York: Academic Press.
31. Dillian CD, White CL, eds. (2010) Trade and Exchange: Archaeological Studies from History and Prehistory. New York: Springer.
32. Moore PR (2012) Procurement and Cultural Distribution of Obsidian in Northern New Zealand. J of Pac Archae 3:17-32.
33. Browne GH, Greig DA (1980) Geology of Fanal Island (Motukino), Outer Hauraki Gulf, North Auckland, TANE 26:7-19.
34. McKay A (1897) Report on silver bearing lodes at Great Barrier. New Zealand Parliamentary Papers C9:75-80.
35. Jones M (2002) A brief prehistory of time. Unpublished PhD dissertation. Auckland: University of Auckland.
36. Sutton DG, Furey L, Marshall YM (2003) The Archaeology of Pouerua. Auckland: Auckland University Press.
37. Irwin G, ed. (2004) Kohika: The archaeology of a late Maori lake village in the Ngati Awa rohe, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press.
38. Freund KP (2013) Directions of obsidian sourcing studies in archaeological research. Archaeometry 55:779-793.
39. McCoy MD, Ladefoged TN (2009) New developments in the use of spatial technology in archaeology. J of Archaeol Res 17:263-295.
40. Hodder I (1982) Toward a contextual approach to prehistoric exchange. In: Ericson JE, Earle TK, editors. Contexts for Prehistoric Exchange. New York: Academic Press, 199-211.