Using Geochemistry to Interpret Porcellanite Stone Axe Production in Ireland

Mandal, Stephen; Cooney, Gabriel; Meighan, I. G.; Jamison, D.D.

doi:10.1006/jasc.1996.0157

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“…That axeheads from the Brockley porcellanite source were transported off Rathlin has been confirmed by trace-element geochemical (XRF) analysis of samples from the two sources at Tievebulliagh and Brockley and from a selection of porcellanite axeheads (Mandal et al, 1997;Meighan et al, 1993). Of the 32 axeheads analyzed (Mandal et al, 1997: axeheads, 13 fall within the Brockley source field and a further two probably originated from the Brockley source. This strongly supports the view that the importance of the Brockley source has been greatly underestimated in the literature, which has focused on the mainland source, Tievebulliagh, as the major source.…”

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Island Quarries, Island Axeheads, and the Neolithic of Ireland and Britain

Cooney

Warren

Ballin³

2013

North American Archaeologist

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A notable feature of the Neolithic Period (4,000-2,500 cal B.C.) of northwest Europe is the exploitation of lithic sources on islands for the production of stone axeheads and other artifacts. This article focuses on three such islands: 1) Rathlin in the North Channel off the northeast coast of Ireland, 2) the island group of Shetland between the North Atlantic and the North Sea, and 3) the island of Lambay off the east coast of Ireland. This work provides support for the importance of insular axehead sources during the Neolithic. The quarries on these islands and the pattern of the distribution of their products provide evidence of quite different scales and organization of quarrying activity and extent of distribution of products from the quarries and hence types of social networks.

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Section: Connecting With the Wider Worldmentioning

confidence: 91%

Island Quarries, Island Axeheads, and the Neolithic of Ireland and Britain

Cooney

Warren

Ballin³

2013

North American Archaeologist

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“…При идентификации каменного сырья используются различные методы анализа вещества, например, минералого-петрографический и рентгеновские. Ведутся работы по изучению источников и составов различных литоресурсов: обсидиана [Glascock, Braswell, Cobean, 1998;Kimura, 1998;Вулканические стекла…, 2000;Reuther et al, 2011], порцелланита [Mandal et al, 1997], аргиллита [Didier, 1975] и др. На основе полученных результатов строятся модели транспортировки и использования каменного сырья в общей системе древних технологий производства и жизнеобеспечения [Кулик, Шуньков, 2000; Кулик, Маркин, 2003; Дороничева, 2013; Деревянко и др., 2015].…”

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Argillite Artifacts and Final Pleistocene to Middle Holocene Cultural Links Across the Vitim River Basin (Baikal Region)

Tetenkin

Vetrov

Demonterova

et al. 2018

Arheol. ètnogr. antropol. Evrazii

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This paper presents the results of X-ray fl uorescence and X-ray diffraction analyses of argillite artifacts from Kovrizhka I on the lower Vitim and Ust-Karenga XVI on the upper Vitim. The specimens from layer 2 of Kovrizhka I date to ca 6 radiocarbon ka BP and belong to a non-ceramic culture with microblades. Two ritual pits at Ust-Karenga XVI, dating to 7–6 radiocarbon ka BP and associated with the late stage of the Ust-Karenga Neolithic culture, contained clusters of artifacts made of dark-brown argillite, including prismatic cores, blades, inserts, and end-scrapers made on blades. At both sites, similar argillite end-scrapers made on large blade-like spalls were found in different years. Their chemical analysis suggests that the raw material was the same, attesting to cultural ties. The distance between the sites along the river is ca 700 km––the largest range of connections evidenced to date in the prehistoric Baikal area. It was previously demonstrated that the artifact from volcanic pumice, found at Ust-Karenga XVI, had been transported from the Udokan volcanic fi eld, which was also a source of a piece of volcanic pumice from Kovrizhka III layer 3.The same sources of raw material, then, were exploited by different populations over a long period. Our review favors the idea of episodic contacts rather than a single population dispersed across a territory between Ust-Karenga and Kovrizhka.

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