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Dating South Island Māori rock art: Pigment and pitfalls

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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.date.issued2019-04
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.en_AU
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.en_AU
dc.format10 pagesen_AU
dc.format.extent10 pagesen_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn2352-409Xen_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/155787
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
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)en_AU
dc.publisherElsevieren_AU
dc.rights2019 Elsevier Ltden_AU
dc.sourceJournal of Archaeological Science: Reportsen_AU
dc.subjectNew Zealanden_AU
dc.subjectMāorien_AU
dc.subjectRock arten_AU
dc.subjectPigment analysisen_AU
dc.subjectpXRFen_AU
dc.subjectRadiocarbon datingen_AU
dc.titleDating South Island Māori rock art: Pigment and pitfallsen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-12-11
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage141en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage132en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage132
local.contributor.affiliationWood, Rachel, RSES General, CoS Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidu5042027en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.identifier.ariespublicationu3102795xPUB928
local.identifier.citationvolume24en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.12.009en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.elsevier.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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