Lithic Exploitation and Usewear Analysis

The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific: Seven Years of the CBAP Project

“…This objective was also pursued in the collaborative context of the Uncovering Pacific Pasts exhibition. Richards' thesis research and additional publications are particularly important in this respect, using cutting-edge chemical analytical technology through the application of portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) to study Polynesian adzes and pounders in museum collections to source them to particular islands and quarries (see also Hayes et al 2023;Richards 2019a & b, in press;Richards and Gunther 2019). Other CBAP papers examining earlier collections and reinterpreting them in light of current evidence include those by Balakhonova and Govor (2018), Haddow (2015Haddow ( , 2019b, Haddow et al (2018) and several of the chapters in the edited volumes by and Govor and Nicholas Thomas (2019).…”

“…Biographical and autobiographical reflections have included Bedford et al (2016), Dotte-Sarout et al (2018, Spriggs (2017cSpriggs ( , 2019c, and Spriggs and Reich (2020). Archaeological technologies and what they make possible in terms of new analyses and, importantly, when they make them possible are another such topic (Hayes et al 2023;Spriggs 2019b;Ward et al 2016). Wider theoretical developments in archaeology and in the historiography of archaeology have also been considered (Dotte-Sarout et al 2020b, 2021bDouglas 2023b; papers in the themed issue of History and Anthropology edited by Douglas and Ballard 2022a, persuasively situated in its introduction by Douglas and Ballard 2022b;Douglas and Di Rosa 2020;Howes 2021b;Howes and Spriggs 2019b; papers in the themed issue of World Archaeology edited by Tim Murray and Spriggs 2017a and their introduction, Murray and Spriggs 2017b;Spriggs 2018Spriggs , 2021c.…”