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Geoarchaeology 17 (3)
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Title:
Geoarchaeology 17 (3)
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Series:
Geoarchaeology
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17 (3)
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Journal
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Editor:
Rolfe D Mandel
Paul Goldberg
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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Year of Publication:
2002
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gea.v17:3/issuetoc
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17 Feb 2005
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Mineral chemical provenance of Neolithic pitchstone artefacts from Ballygalley, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Jeremy Preston
Ian G Meighan
Derek D A Simpson
Malcolm Hole
219 - 236
A large number of pitchstone fragments and artefacts have recently been discovered at a Neolithic settlement site in Ballygalley, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. They consist predominantly of flakes and un-reworked lumps and cores, with only one complete tool being found. Since no sources of workable pitchstone exist in Ireland, the source must have been the abundant pitchstone volcanic rocks found on the Hebridean Islands of northwest Scotland. The composition of the glass from a number of artefacts is highly siliceous, indicating that they were derived from pitchstones on the Island of Arran. Analysis of pyroxene and amphibole microcrystallites within the pitchstone suggests that the Corriegills area of Arran is the most likely source of the Ballygalley artefacts. These finds, and others across Ireland, show that raw materials were being transported and probably traded over considerable distances despite there being suitable alternative sources of material for making tools available in the local area. This suggests that the pitchstone had a very specialist use.
Short contribution: a new method of analyzing and documenting micromorphological thin sections using flatbed scanners; applications in geoarchaeological studies
Trina L Arpin
Carolina Mallol
Paul Goldberg
305 - 313
Much of the information in micromorphological thin sections exists at the mesoscopic level. The use of flatbed scanners can improve analysis at this level and aid in preservation of the information. The article describes scanning in both plane and cross-polarized light and discusses the hardware and software required.