PIXE analyses over a long period: The case of Neolithic variscite jewels from Western Europe (5th–3th millennium BC)

Querré, Guirec; Calligaro, Thomas; Domínguez‐Bella, Salvador; Cassen, Serge

doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2013.07.033

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“…1). This focus on identifying geological mineral sources has been driven by the view that their relationships to archaeological bead assemblages can be established by the intercomparison of their chemical compositions (Edo i Benaiges et al, 1995a;Dominguez Bella, 2004;Odriozola, 2014;Odriozola et al, 2010;Querré et al, 2014Querré et al, , 2008.…”

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Distribution and chronological framework for Iberian variscite mining and consumption at Pico Centeno, Encinasola, Spain

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AMS radiocarbon and OSL dating, and profiling were used to directly delimit periods of variscite production at Pico Centeno Mine 2. These results were integrated with analysis of other well-dated periods of variscite production to establish an Iberian-wide chronological framework. Variscite production at Pico Centeno Mine 2 began at ~ 5200 BC, coincident with alpine jade production or Casa Montero Iberian flint production. Variscite was only used occasionally, together with other greenstones, during the 5th and 6th millennia BC. During the 4th millennium BC, variscite use began to increase to its apogee in the first half of 3rd millennium BC when it appeared in nearly every Iberian burial site. This increase in variscite production and use coincided with decline in the popularity of alpine jade. By the end of the 3rd millennium BC, new resources began to be valued such as Asian and African Ivory, Baltic and Sicilian amber, and copper-based metal products. The variscite cycle thus started with the decline of jade in the 5th–4th millennium BC, and ended with the appearance of copper, ivory and extra-peninsular amber by the end of the 3rd millennium BC.

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Distribution and chronological framework for Iberian variscite mining and consumption at Pico Centeno, Encinasola, Spain

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“…Stars indicate variscite sources known to have been exploited in the fifth millennium BC (modified from Querré et al . ). [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]…”

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“…Breton Neolithic variscite can be matched to a number of Iberian sources: Can Tintorer (Gavá) in Catalonia; Palazuelo de las Cuevas and El Bostal in north‐western Castile, close to the Portuguese frontier; and Pico Centeno (Encinasola) in Huelva (Herbaut and Querré ; Querré et al . ; ; Odriozola et al . ; Odriozola 2014).…”

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Biscay and Beyond? Prehistoric Voyaging between Two Finisterres

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2017

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary The Atlantic peninsulas of western Europe present intriguing cultural parallels that reach back into later prehistory. Furthermore, direct evidence of interconnections from the fifth millennium BC is revealed by the movement of specific materials such as Iberian variscite. Brittany and Galicia were key nodes within this potential network of maritime interaction, but debate continues as to the routes that were chosen and the navigational abilities involved. Did early seafarers keep close to the coast and did long journeys involve many intermediate landfalls? Or did crews venture direct crossings of the Bay of Biscay? In the absence of surviving evidence for the kinds of vessel likely to have been used by Neolithic seaborne navigators, modern wind and current data are here used to generate models indicating journey times for small sea‐going craft powered only by oars, following the coastal or the direct route. The results are discussed within the context of selected material flows (jadeitite, variscite, copper, Beakers) and against a background of potentially changing maritime technology.

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“…It is not only the preference for new types of raw materials, particularly highly sought-after, brightly-colored green stones such as variscite and steatite (Harrison and Orozco Köhler 2001;Porat 2008, 2010;Querré et al 2008Querré et al , 2014Odriozola et al 2010;Querré et al 2014) that appear during the Neolithic in Europe and the Near East. Parallel to broad changes in technology and subsistence base, the way in which labor was organized around bead and pendant production changed as well (Wright et al 2008;Bar-Yosef andPorat 2008, 2010;Bar-Yosef 2013).…”

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“…This information is useful for establishing the degree of regional interconnectedness, and potentially for better understanding the nature of social complexity. Despite potential reciprocal trade patterns between coastal and inland areas, and highlands and low lands, few studies in this region have dealt exclusively with beads (see Kleinmann 1981;Odriozola et al 2010Odriozola et al , 2013Querré et al 2014), particularly in terms of their potential to shed light on labor organization, exchange, and the types of objects that were particularly socially or symbolically valuable to Late Neolithic and Copper Age Estremadura. Thus, there is a great deal more we can ask of these objects.…”

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Katina Lillios. I entered graduate school largely bereft of any practical understanding of what it meant to be a professional anthropologist and archaeologist in the 21st century. Dr. Lillios saw something in me that I did not see in myself, and she provided me with a template from which to work: how to think about the past, why we think about the past, how to navigate the impossibly byzantine world of academic anthropology and international archaeological research. And then there was the nuts and bolts stuff: the seminars, making lectures, writing and publishing articles, doing fieldwork abroad, teaching undergraduates, presenting posters and talks, creating a CV, navigating the rough waters of annual meetings, excavating, applying for grants-a myriad of small but unequivocally important parts of being an anthropologist and being a professional one. Katina: thank you for all of your hard-work, your guidance, for having patience, and for teaching me how to think about the relationship between the people of the present and the people of the past. I will miss sitting in your office and talking about all of the possibilities. I would also like to mention the importance of Dr. Michael Chibnik in terms of the evolution of my thinking as anthropologist, and for giving my understanding of how and why people make things a solid economic footing-a tool that I could actually apply to prehistoric craftspeople in Neolithic Iberia, people who specialized in making large numbers of standardized objects by hand. Mike also taught me how to think and write v clearly, how to compose a grant, how to analyze data, and how to give an interview. I am in his debt. Thank you also to the other members of my committee, Dr. , for teaching me how to work with and analyze material culture. To John Whittaker for writing work that inspired me, and made me want to pursue archaeology. And last but not least to James Enloe, who's endless, gentle guidance shepherded me through graduate school. Thanks, Jim. A special thanks to my wife, colleague, and general partner in crime, Dr. Anna Joy Waterman. Anna was my model in graduate school, preceding me by several stages, and a crucial part of my development as a scholar. She has made me both a better scientist and a better writer. This dissertation would simply not have been possible without her. Hats off to Anna, the most patient and hardest working person I know. A special thanks as well to Isabel Luna, Carlos Assunção, and the entire staff of the Museu Municipal Leonel Trindade de Torres Vedras. This work would not have been possible without Isabel's tireless support and immense knowledge of the archaeology of the Torres Vedras region. Isabel was key in making it possible that I was able to carry out my work at the Museu Municipal Leonel Trindade, and endlessly helpful. Also, to Dr.

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PIXE analyses over a long period: The case of Neolithic variscite jewels from Western Europe (5th–3th millennium BC)

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Distribution and chronological framework for Iberian variscite mining and consumption at Pico Centeno, Encinasola, Spain

Distribution and chronological framework for Iberian variscite mining and consumption at Pico Centeno, Encinasola, Spain

Biscay and Beyond? Prehistoric Voyaging between Two Finisterres

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