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Law, Randall |
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Carter, Alison Kyra |
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Bhan, Kuldeep |
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Malik, Arun |
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Glascock, Michael D. |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2022-11-09T23:23:11Z |
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dc.date.available |
2022-11-09T23:23:11Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2008-01 |
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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 |
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236850244_INAA_of_agate_sources_and_artifacts_from_the_Indus_Helmand_and_Thailand_regions |
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https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/27807 |
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10 pages |
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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. |
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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). |
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Proceedings of the Eurpoean Association of South Asian Archaeologists |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US |
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dc.title |
INAA of agate sources and artifacts from the Indus, Helmand, and Thailand regions |
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Article |
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dc.identifier.doi |
https://doi.org/10.30861/9781407310626 |
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0000-0001-6331-2149 |
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