Methodological issues for characterisation and provenance studies of obsidian in Northeast Asia / edited by Akira Ono, Michael D. Glascock, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Yoshimitsu Suda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ono, Akira (Paleontologist), editor.

Glascock, Michael, editor.

Kuzʹmin, I︠A︡. V., editor.

Suda, Yoshimitsu, editor.

Series:

BAR international series ; 2620.

BAR international series ; 2620

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obsidian--Asia.

Obsidian.

Hydration rind dating.

Asia.

Physical Description:

xviii, 183 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2014.

Contents:

Foreword / Colin Renfrew

Preface and acknowledgements / Akira Ono and Yaroslav V. Kuzmin

Introduction: characterisation and provenance studies of obsidian in northeast asia : the view from the early 2010s / Akira Ono, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Michael D. Glascock, and Yoshimitsu Suda

Methodological Issues on Characterisation of Obsidian Sources in Northeast Asia. Multi-Method Characterisation of Obsidian Source Compositional Groups in Hokkaido Island (Japan) / Jeffrey R. Ferguson, Michael D. Glascock, Masami Izuho, Masayuki Mukai, Keiji Wada, and Hiroyuki Sato

Application of internal standard method for non-destructive analysis of obsidian artefacts by wavelength dispersive x-ray fluorescence spectrometry / Yoshimitsu Suda

The effectiveness of elemental intensity ratios for sourcing obsidian artefacts using energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence spectrometry: a case study from Japan / Tarou Kannari, Masashi Nagai, and Shigeo Sugihara

Chemical composition of obsidians in hokkaido island, northern Japan: the importance of geological and petrological data for source studies / Keiji Wada, Masayuki Mukai, Kyohei Sano, Masami Izuho, and Hiroyuki Sato

The neutron activation analysis of volcanic glasses in the russian far east and neighbouring northeast Asia: a summary of the first 20 years of research / Yaroslav V. Kuzmin and Michael D. Glascock

Geochemistry of volcanic glasses and the search strategy for unknown obsidian sources on Kamchatka Peninsula (Russian Far East) / Andrei V. Grebennikov, Vladimir K. Popov, and Yaroslav V. Kuzmin

Provenance studies of archaeological obsidian in northeast Asia: current progress. Identification of archaeological obsidian sources in Kanto and Chubu Regions (central Japan) by energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence analysis / Nobuyuki Ikeya

Integration of obsidian compositional studies and lithic reduction sequence analysis at the upper palaeolithic site of Ogachi-Kato 2, Hokkaido, Japan / Masami Izuho, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, Michael D. Glascock, Noriyoshi Oda, Fumito Akai, Yuichi Nakazawa, and Hiroyuki Sato

Geoarchaeological aspects of obsidian source studies in the southern Rrussian far east and brief comparison with neighbouring regions / Yaroslav V. Kuzmin

The Paektusan volcano source and geochemical analysis of archaeological obsidians in Korea / Jong-Chan Kim.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781407312552

1407312553

OCLC:

878976744