Purple Haze: Evidence For A Later Date For Solarized Amethyst Glass

Bolton, S. Charles

doi:10.1080/03122417.2005.11681804

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“…A second 2 × 1 m trench (compartmentalised into Units B, C and D; Figure 3) was placed 5 m from the back wall of the larger, south-east facing rock-shelter and (at least) 2 m outside the drip line, in an area characterised by large quantities of archaeological surface material. The shelter contained a significant surface scatter of contact materials including 34 pieces of light-green, olive-green, dark-green and pink glass (including 18 flaked glass artefacts) and one piece of unworked purple, solarised amethyst glass with a relative date of 1890-1930 (Bolton, 2005). The surface scatter also included 31 quartz and one silcrete flaked artefacts, 3 grindstones, 2 broken hammer-stone fragments, a worked ochre nodule and (in the western portion of the site) two Ngarlwak (freshwater mud mussel) shells and a single burnt Anadara sp.…”

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Archaeology of animate ancestors and entanglement at Mayarnjarn in the Wellington Range region, Northern Territory

Wright

Nejman

Skitmore

et al. 2023

Archaeology in Oceania

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The Wellington Range region, in far Northern Australia, provides a remarkable record of cultural encounter. Cathedral-sized rock art galleries include contact imagery referencing Macassan and European visitors while lithic artefact assemblages echo social mobility between Indigenous groups occurring from at least the mid Holocene period. In this paper, we continue the trajectory of archaeological research in this region by examining community entanglement over the longue durée, focusing on the Mayarnjarn rock-shelter complex. Specifically, and following advice from traditional custodians, the authors complement archaeological excavation results with reflections on interactions between Traditional Mawng speaking Owners and archaeologists occurring during the 2016 and 2018 field seasons. This paper provides a cultural chronology built around both OSL and radiocarbon dates, a first for the region, indicating site activities dating from the terminal Pleistocene. An increase in exotic artefacts and presence of paintings belonging to a pan-Arnhem land rock art tradition suggests widening social networks during the Holocene. Insight into the nuanced nature of interactions, also the role of animate objects as relationship referents, emerge through ethnography and experience as the field season unfolds.

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Archaeology of animate ancestors and entanglement at Mayarnjarn in the Wellington Range region, Northern Territory

Wright

Nejman

Skitmore

et al. 2023

Archaeology in Oceania

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“…amber, which at this site came only from items that were produced after 1920) are most common in the central area. Using glasscolourtodatethemanufactureofbottlesisnotdefinitive,howeveritcanserveasausefulguideto overall trends (Jones and Sullivan, 1989:12; also see Boow, 1991;Lockhart, 2006;Bolton, 2005;Burke and Smith,2004forsomeguidestothedatingofglassbasedoncolour). …”

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New Directions in Archaeological Science (TA28)

Marwick¹,

Fairbairn²,

O’Connor³

2009

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terra australis 28Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. List of volumes in Terra AustralisVolume 1: Burrill Lake and Currarong: Coastal Sites in Southern New South Wales. R.J. Lampert (1971) Volume 2: Ol Tumbuna: Archaeological Excavations in the Eastern Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea. J.P. White (1972) Volume 3 Since its inception, the conference has been an important meeting place for the widely dispersed and diverse community of Australasian archaeological scientists, including both those resident in the region, primarily in Australia and New Zealand, as well as Australasians working around the world. The 2005 meeting at ANU was the first to be held there since 1991 and was the venue for the presentation of 79 papers in 10 sessions covering all aspects of archaeological science from analytical chemistry to GIS, fire histories and ancient technology. The linking concept with all of the sessions was the integration of archaeological science research within broader archaeological projects -in other words forwarding interpretations alongside consideration of method. Over 120 delegates from 6 countries attended the lecture sessions which were accompanied by a poster session, plenary lecture and several workshops. Student participation was especially encouraged and, partly as a result of industry and University sponsorship (see below), subsidised places and travel bursaries helped to boost student delegates to almost one third of the overall total attendance. One of the key roles of the AAC has been to promote the work of the region's archaeological scientists by producing refereed publications of conference papers. As academic publication has radically changed in recent years so has the publication format and venues for conference publications. Rather than producing a single conference proceedings, papers from the 2005 AAC can be found in a variety of international journals, including Lithic Technology, Internet Archaeology, Archaeometry and the Journal of Archaeological Science. This volume presents original research papers from three key subject areas covered in the conferenc...

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Artifacts of the Modern World

Lawrence

2013

Archaeology in Practice

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Purple Haze: Evidence For A Later Date For Solarized Amethyst Glass

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Archaeology of animate ancestors and entanglement at Mayarnjarn in the Wellington Range region, Northern Territory

Archaeology of animate ancestors and entanglement at Mayarnjarn in the Wellington Range region, Northern Territory

New Directions in Archaeological Science (TA28)

Artifacts of the Modern World

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