INAA of agate sources and artifacts from the Indus, Helmand, and Thailand regions
| dc.contributor.author | Law, Randall | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carter, Alison Kyra | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bhan, Kuldeep | |
| dc.contributor.author | Malik, Arun | |
| dc.contributor.author | Glascock, Michael D. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-09T23:23:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-09T23:23:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-01 | |
| dc.description | 10 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Agate was one of the ancient world’s premier prestige goods, especially the red-orange variety known as carnelian. The stone was utilized by and traded between societies from Africa to eastern Asia (Inizan 1993; Insollet al. 2004; Theunissen et al. 2000). In this paper, we present the results of a series of instrumental neutron activation analyses (INAA) of agate samples and artifacts from sources and/or sites in the Indus, Helmand, and Thailand regions. This study represents the beginning of a broad-scale, long-term project aimed at identifying Old World agate sources and the regional and inter-regional trade networks through which this important stone was exchanged in both raw and finished form. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The authors wish to thank Drs Richard Meadow and J. Mark Kenoyer – co-directors of the Harappa Archaeological Research Project, for providing us access to the agate artifacts from Harappa and to Dr. Fazal Dad Kakar – Director-General of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan, for allowing us to analyze those artifacts in the United States. In addition, we are deeply grateful to Professor Maurizio Tosi and Dr. Massimo Vidale for supplementing this study with agate fragments from the site of Shahr-i-Sokhta. Thanks also to Dr. Nigel Chang, Dr. Bill Boyd, and Sompong Paekosae. Special thanks to Robert Agasie and Kevin Austin at the University of Wisconsin’s Nuclear Reactor Laboratory. Support for this project was provided by the United States Department of Energy Reactor Sharing Program, the Wenner-Gren Foundation (Gr. 7066), the Bead Society of Greater Chicago, the Ruth Dickie Graduate Women in Science Grants-in-Aid program, and the National Science Foundation (BCS-0327246 & BCS0504015). | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Law, R., Carter, A. K., Bhan, K., Malik, A., & Glascock, M. (2008). INAA of agate sources and artifacts from the Indus, Helmand, and Thailand regions. British Archaeological Reports. International Series, 2454. Retrieved from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236850244_INAA_of_agate_sources_and_artifacts_from_the_Indus_Helmand_and_Thailand_regions | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.30861/9781407310626 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-6331-2149 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236850244_INAA_of_agate_sources_and_artifacts_from_the_Indus_Helmand_and_Thailand_regions | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/27807 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Proceedings of the Eurpoean Association of South Asian Archaeologists | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.title | INAA of agate sources and artifacts from the Indus, Helmand, and Thailand regions | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |