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Dating South Island Māori rock art: Pigment and pitfalls

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O'Regan, Gerard; Petchey, Fiona; Wood, Rachel; McAlister, Andrew; Bradshaw, Fiona; Holdaway, Simon

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New Zealand was first settled by Māori soon after 1200 CE, however the age, and so the social and environmental contexts of the rock art they made remains uncertain. We report the first attempts at the direct dating of New Zealand rock art through radiocarbon analysis focusing on the return of an unexpectedly early date. Historical information and pigment testing indicates that the particular figures that returned the early date were retouched with modern crayons. We report the use of portable...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorO'Regan, Gerard
dc.contributor.authorPetchey, Fiona
dc.contributor.authorWood, Rachel
dc.contributor.authorMcAlister, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorBradshaw, Fiona
dc.contributor.authorHoldaway, Simon
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-18T22:40:10Z
dc.identifier.issn2352-409X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/155787
dc.description.abstractNew Zealand was first settled by Māori soon after 1200 CE, however the age, and so the social and environmental contexts of the rock art they made remains uncertain. We report the first attempts at the direct dating of New Zealand rock art through radiocarbon analysis focusing on the return of an unexpectedly early date. Historical information and pigment testing indicates that the particular figures that returned the early date were retouched with modern crayons. We report the use of portable X-ray fluorescence to identify rock art figures that have been retouched in this way. Results emphasise the need to consider historical information in future assessments of material for dating Māori rock art.
dc.description.sponsorshipThe project proceeded as part O’Regan's University of Auckland doctoral research supervised by Profs Simon Holdaway and Thegn Ladefoged, and the radiocarbon dating in New Zealand was funded by a UoA Arts Faculty Doctoral Research Grant.
dc.format10 pages
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rights2019 Elsevier Ltd
dc.sourceJournal of Archaeological Science: Reports
dc.subjectNew Zealand
dc.subjectMāori
dc.subjectRock art
dc.subjectPigment analysis
dc.subjectpXRF
dc.subjectRadiocarbon dating
dc.titleDating South Island Māori rock art: Pigment and pitfalls
dc.typeJournal article
local.identifier.citationvolume24
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-12-11
dc.date.issued2019-04
local.identifier.ariespublicationu3102795xPUB928
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.elsevier.com/
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationWood, Rachel, RSES General, CoS Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage132
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage132
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage141
local.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.12.009
dc.provenanceElsevier requires authors posting their accepted manuscript to attach a non-commercial Creative Commons user license (CC-BY-NC-ND). http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/lightbox_attach-a-user-license (Publisher journal website 6/2/2019)
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