Archaeometry
Subtitle: current Australasian research
By: edited by Barry L. Fankhauser and J. Roger Bird
Series: Occasional papers in prehistory -- no. 22
Publisher: Dept. of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Canberra, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Archaeometry; Congresses; Archaeology; Methodology
Notes: Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Archaeometry Conference held at the Australian National University from 29 to 31 January 1991.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Analysis of resins and other plant residues on stone artefacts from Graman, New South Wales  -- Philip Gerard Boot; title: Residue analysis on Maori earth ovens  -- Barry Fankhauser; title: Taphonomy and tool-use  -- Richard Fullager; title: Blood residue detection  -- Lyle J. Palmer; title: Stable carbon isotope ratios in bone collagen as indicators of marine and terrestial dietary composition in southeastern South Australia  -- F. Donald Pate and Margaret J. Schoeninger; title: Ion beam analysis in art and archaeology  -- J.R. Bird; title: Ceramic provenance studies in Oceania  -- Terry L. Hunt; title: West New Britain obsidian  -- G.R. Summerhayes ... [et al.]; title: The computer graphic database as an aid to recording and analysing pottery decoration ; title: Nancy D. Sharp --; title: Obsidian hydration dating  -- W.R. Ambrose; title: Preliminary microbiological investigations of some problems relating to age at death determinations in archaeological teeth  -- A.M. Child ... [et al.]; title: Aging and seasonal dating of tuatua shells using strontium markings  -- W.J. Trompetter and G.E. Coote; title: Radiocarbon dating by direct CO2 absorption -- Nicolas Lambropoulos and Steve Robertson; title: Archaeological significance of first-order radiocarbon dating  -- David Frankel; title: Archaeological dating of ancient potteries using a commercial thermoluminescence dosimeter (TLD) reader  -- Bhasker Mukherjee ... [et al.]; title: A problem in the thermoluminescence of dating of recent sediments ; title: J.R. Prescott and R.A. Purvinskis --; title: Plans for AMS dating at Lucas Heights  -- A.M. Smith ... [et al.]; title: The application of Ground Penetrating Radar in archaeology  -- Jay Hall and Richard Yelf; title: The contribution of microscopic analysis of archaeological sediments fo the reconstruction of the human past in Australasia  -- A. McConnell and J.W. Magee; title: Mineralogical examination of aboriginal rock-paintings pigments near Laura, north Queensland  -- A. Watchman; title: New views on the origins of copper metallurgy -- P. Budd ... [et al.]