Working with Wal: from innovative technician to valued archaeological researcher

Green, R. C.

doi:10.1002/j.1834-4453.1997.tb00370.x

Archaeology in Oceania

1997

DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4453.1997.tb00370.x

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Working with Wal: from innovative technician to valued archaeological researcher

R. C. Green

Abstract: From the perspective of 'working with Wal' on problems of obsidian sourcing and dating, I provide a personal assessment of Ambrose's contributions to Australasian archaeometry and Pacific archaeology over the past 35 years.

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Crafting Social Networks: the Production of Obsidian Stemmed Tools in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea

Torrence

Kononenko

Dickinson

2021

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Widely held assumptions about static societies during the early-middle Holocene (c. 10,000-3300 BP) in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea are challenged by a hypothetical reconstruction of social negotiations that we propose were embedded within the manufacture of large obsidian stemmed tools that circulated as cultural valuables. Made by skilled knappers, these artefacts were manufactured in stages (quarrying, preform production, shaping, hafting, and re-hafting) often segregated in discrete and possibly restricted locations. The successful completion of a large obsidian stemmed tool may have required effective management to negotiate multiple social networks, thereby enhancing the status of those who directed the process. Social connections forged and re-inforced to support the production process may also have been enhanced by ritual practices. Through the social links created and strengthened by the process of its crafting and the subsequent ceremonies and exchanges in which it circulated, a stemmed tool contributed to a vibrant social life that persisted over several millennia.

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Crafting Social Networks: the Production of Obsidian Stemmed Tools in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea

Torrence

Kononenko

Dickinson

2021

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Working with Wal: from innovative technician to valued archaeological researcher

Abstract: From the perspective of 'working with Wal' on problems of obsidian sourcing and dating, I provide a personal assessment of Ambrose's contributions to Australasian archaeometry and Pacific archaeology over the past 35 years.

Cited by 1 publication

References 22 publications

Crafting Social Networks: the Production of Obsidian Stemmed Tools in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea

Crafting Social Networks: the Production of Obsidian Stemmed Tools in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea

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