Research Catalog

Title

Archaeometry : an Australasian perspective / edited by W. Ambrose, P. Duerden.

Publication

Canberra : Dept. of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1982.

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Additional Authors

• Ambrose, W. R.
• Australian Museum.
• Duerden, P.

Description

v, 391 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Uniform Title

Occasional papers in prehistory ; no. 12.

Subject

• Archaeological dating > Congresses
• Archaeometry > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "The papers in this volume were given at a conference on archaeometry at the Australian Museum, Sydney, from 15 to 18 February 1982"--Pref.
• According to the publisher's catalog, assigned v. 12 of the Occasional papers in prehistory series after publication.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Scientific measurement in archaeology -- historical review / Stuart Fleming -- Ions and eons : some thoughts on archaeological science and scientific archaeology / Rhys Jones -- Methods of sample analysis in archaeology : a review / I.E.M. Smith -- Progressive results from the PIXE program for sourcing prehistoric Papuan pottery / Jim Allen and Peter Duerden -- Elemental analysis and taxonomy of prehistoric pottery from western Java / G. Summerhayes and M.J. Walker -- Elemental analysis of southeastern Spanish prehistoric coarse potsherds / M.J. Walker -- Trace element characterisation of New Zealand obsidian using neutron activation analysis / R.Y. Chidgey -- PIXE analysis in the distribution and chronology of obsidian use in the Admiralty Islands / W.R. Ambrose and P. Duerden -- Some statistical techniques for provenancing artefact material : a user's view / E. Clayton -- Geoarchaeology in Australia : a review / P.J. Hughes and M.E. Sullivan --^
• Alluvial stratigraphy and archaeology : three examples from prehistoric Africa, India and Australia / Martin Williams -- Thin-section analysis and the geomorphic history of the Colless Creek archaeological site in northwestern Queensland / J.W. Magee and P.J. Hughes -- Tephrochronology : the use of volcanic ash beds / C.F. Pain -- Palaeowinds and the orientation of calcified tree remains and dune forests in coastal calcarenite Bellarine Peninsula, central Victoria / N.W. Schleiger -- Fires, hearths and palaeomagnetism / Peter Clark and Mike Barbetti -- New magnetometer technology and its application to archaeological exploration / John M. Stanley -- Stable oxygen and carbon isotope techniques in archaeology and museum studies : a review / Paul Aharon -- Heavy metals in bones from archaeological sites : an indicator of palaeo-environmental conditions / B. Noller, R. Jones and J. Stockton -- Vertebrate palaeoecology in Australia : a review / D.R. Horton --^
• Microfossils / D.R. Selkirk and D.A. Adamson -- Pollen from archaeological sites : a comparison of swamp and open archaeological site pollen spectra at Kosipe Mission, Papua New Guinea / Geoff Hope -- The degree of degradation of fossil material from archaeological sites : can the influence of past environments be defined? / M.J. Head -- Amino acid racemisation dating : a review / Brad Pillans -- The measurement of hydration profiles in obsidian / P. Duerden, D.D. Cohen and W.R. Ambrose -- Depth profiles of sodium in obsidian by the resonant nuclear reaction method : a potential dating technique / Graeme Coote and Paul Nistor -- Radial profiles of fluorine in archaeological bone and teeth : a review of recent developments / Graeme Coote and Simon Holdaway -- Advances in thermoluminescence dating and their significance for Australia and Oceania : a review / John R. Prescott -- The TL-dating of Shiwan ware from South China / A.J. Mortlock, D.M. Price and F. Skinsnes-Scollard --^
• Extending thermoluminescence dating to geological sediments / M.L. Readhead -- Thermoluminescence dating of marine sediments from Spencer Gulf / B.W. Smith, J.R. Prescott and H. Polach -- Chronological correlation of interglacial sediments of the Richmond River Valley, New South Wales / L.W. Drury and D. Roman -- The fission track dating of obsidian / T. Wall -- Lead-210 dating of sediments / J.D. Smith -- The caesium-137 dating technique and associated applications in Australia -- a review / M.E. Longmore (McCallan) -- Radiocarbon dating uncertainties and their effects on studies of the past / J. Chappell -- Reliable radiocarbon dates from bones : the Sydney University experience / S.M. McPhail -- Radiocarbon dating of milligram-size samples using gas proportional counters : an evaluation of precision and of design parameters / Henry Polach [and others] -- Liquid scintillation counting of carbon-14 in a heavily shielded site / G.E. Calf and P.L. Airey --^
• Radiocarbon dating and other laboratory derived data : the historian's viewpoint / Noel Barnard -- Environmental effects on shipwreck material from analysis of marine concretions / I.D. Macleod -- A portable pottery test kiln for field use on archaeological sites / W.I. Edwards -- Directory of Australian archaeometry and conservation / Joanne Porter and Mike Barbetti.

ISBN

0867842393

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