Prehistoric Antigorite Procurement in Cyprus

Hancock, R. G. V.; Fox, William A.

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4754.1992.tb00471.x

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“…On some occasions, INAA was employed to confirm the relative homogeneities of samples used in TL dating (Pavlish and Beukens 1978; Sheppard et al 1982; Pavlish and Sheppard 1983). At other times, INAA was used to try to establish geological sources of materials (Julig et al 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991a, 1992; Smeaton and Burns 1988; Burns et al 1989; Hancock et al 1989c; Jarvis 1990, 2000; White et al 1991; Best et al 1992; Hancock and Fox 1992; Sheppard 1992; Long et al 2002). INAA has been used in provenance studies (Wainwright and Down 1986; Julig et al 1991b, 2002; Volterra and Hancock 1994; Volterra et al 2000; Hancock 2003a).…”

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Archaeometry at Slowpoke‐toronto

2007

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This paper describes the archaeometric research conducted at the SLOWPOKE ReactorFacility of the University of Toronto (SLOWPOKE-Toronto) during its existence from 1971 to 1998. The contributions to student teaching and research are described, and the total contribution of the facility to studies of an eclectic assortment of ancient and historic materials is addressed. experimentation, many researchers from a wide variety of disciplines had access to what turned out to be a useful analytical technique.Archaeometric research began in the first year of facility operation, and had a 27-year history, continuing through to the closing of SLOWPOKE-Toronto in late 1998. ARCHAEOMETRIC USAGE PATTERNSThe information presented in this section has been culled from contributions from individual academics to SLOWPOKE-Toronto Annual Reports and the SLOWPOKE Publications collection. It therefore probably represents a reasonable description of what really occurred, somewhat akin to the way in which INAA data describe archaeological materials.Ceramic analyses began in the first year of reactor operation, using a donated 100-channel multichannel analyser ( Thirteen elements were positively identified and there were strong indications of seven more ; Hancock and Franklin 1972). Archaeometrically inclined students, however, did not initiate research projects until the 1974-5 academic year (Czuba 1975;Katz 1975;Stahl 1975), and the first conference presentations were not until 1976 (Hancock 1976a;Hancock and Franklin 1976).A summary of the long-term, archaeometric usefulness of SLOWPOKE-Toronto is presented in Table 1. In this, five-year blocks of numbers are presented for student reports and theses, for conference presentations, and for final publications in journals or conference proceedings. Of the archaeometric student research projects, most were undertaken by undergraduate students (43), with six master's projects (. The last undergraduate report, on the analysis of red glass beads, was by Kwok (1998).In the numbers of student research projects, there was growth over the first decade, followed by consistent output. This continuing archaeometric contribution to the overall research and teaching undertaken at SLOWPOKE-Toronto was noted by a Dean of Engineering, who bemoaned the fact that his faculty was supporting a facility that was being used significantly by non-engineering students. This profession-centric view made no allowances for the many non-engineering students who would later go on to academic and other meaningful employment.The unique hands-on learning opportunities provided by SLOWPOKE-Toronto must certainly have helped the careers of many students. It was also almost the only opportunity that archaeologists got to wear white lab coats.

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