Obsidian and Ancient Manufactured Glasses

Contents

vii Contents Figures and Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Editors’ Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii Part I Obsidian Hydration Dating Chapter 1 Aspects of Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) Depth Profiling for Obsidian Hydration Dating by Steven W. Novak and Christopher M. Stevenson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Chapter 2 Obsidian Hydration Chronometrics Using SIMS and Optical Methods from 26-year Temperature-controlled Exposures by Wallace Ambrose and Steven W. Novak. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Chapter 3 The SIMS-SS Obsidian Hydration Dating Method by Ioannis Liritzis and Nikolaos Laskaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Chapter 4 Temperature Correction for Obsidian Hydration Dating by Alexander K. Rogers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Chapter 5 Obsidian Dating and Source Exploitation Studies in Africa: Implications for the Evolution of Human Behavior by Stanley H. Ambrose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Part II Obsidian Glass Provenance Chapter 6 Provenance of Peruvian Wari Obsidian: Comparing INAA, LA-ICP-MS, and Portable XRF by Patrick Ryan Williams, Laure Dussubieux, and Donna J. Nash . . . . . . . . . . 75 Chapter 7 New Perspectives on Obsidian Procurement and Exchange at Tiwanaku, Bolivia by Michael D. Glascock and Martin Giesso. . . . . . . 86 Chapter 8 Volcanic Glass Procurement and Use in the Late Paleolithic, Central Primorye, Far East Russia by Trudy Doelman, Robin Torrence, Vladimir Popov, Nikolai Kluyev, and Igor Sleptsov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Chapter 9 Obsidian Provenance at Several Italian and Corsican Archaeological Sites Using the Non-destructive X-ray Fluorescence Method by Anna Maria De Francesco, Marco Bocci, Gino Mirocle Crisci, and Vincenzo Francaviglia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Chapter 10 Polynesian Volcanic Glass: Uses, Sourcing, and Distribution by Marshall Weisler. . . . . . . . . . 130 Chapter 11 Glass Vessels in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Compositional Study of Samples from Mtwapa, Kenya by Laure Dussubieux and Chapurukha M. Kusimba. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Chapter 12 On the Provenance of Roman Glasses by Caroline M. Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 viii | Chapter 13 Characterization and Provenance of Archaeological Glass Artifacts from Mainland and Aegean Greece by Konstantinos G. Beltsios, Artemios Oikonomou, Nikolaos Zacharias, and Pavlos Triantafyllidis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Chapter 14 The Provenance of Ancient Man-made Glass: Raw Materials and the Use of Chemical and Isotopic Analytical Techniques by Julian Henderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Chapter 15 Thoughts on Natural and Manufactured Glass Studies in a 21st-Century Archaeology by M. Steven Shackley. . . . . . . . . . . 202 Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 About the Editors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 ...